28 Liberty StreetSkidmore, Owings & Merrill
Exterior · New York City, United States · 1961
Photo: Wally Gobetz · 2006-06-22 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Original 1360×2045
One Chase Manhattan Plaza, completed in 1961, has 60 floors, with 4 basement floors, and is 813 feet (248 meters) tall. Built in the International style, with a white steel facade with black patterns just below the windows. Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chase Plaza echoes the Inland Steel Building in Chicago. The facade is adorned with anodized aluminum panels, mullions, and column cladding. The Chase Manhattan Bank president of that time, David Rockefeller, the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family, was the prime mover of the construction and the buildin