One Chase Manhattan Plaza, now known by its street address 28 Liberty Street, rises in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, completed in 1961 to a design by Gordon Bunshaft of the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill as the headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank under the leadership of David Rockefeller. Its stark International Style glass and aluminum curtain wall tower was set back from the street on a large open plaza, an arrangement unusual in the tightly packed Financial District and made possible by demolishing a dense block of older buildings. The plaza itself was landscaped with a sunken garden designed by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi and today displays Jean Dubuffet's sculpture Group of Four Trees, commissioned by David Rockefeller in the 1970s. The building and its plaza were widely credited with encouraging later corporate towers in Lower Manhattan to provide similar public open space.
Facts
Building Type Location28 Liberty Street, Manhattan, New York, US 1 Completed Year Partially Attested
Completed YearInfobox gives tower completion December 1960 and plaza completion December 1963; lead says the building opened in 1961 Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Wikipedia: 28 Liberty Street
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Source Wikipedia: 28 Liberty Street
Source Wikipedia: 28 Liberty Street
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1. Wikipedia: 28 Liberty Street
Lead paragraph 1, sentence 1
60-story International Style skyscraper
Infobox, location
28 Liberty Street, Manhattan, New York, US
Infobox, completion_date
December 1960 (tower)
Lead paragraph 1, sentence 3
813 feet (248 m) tall
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
One Chase Manhattan Plaza, now known by its street address 28 Liberty Street, rises in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, completed in 1961 to a design by Gordon Bunshaft of the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill as the headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank under the leadership of David Rockefeller. Its stark International Style glass and aluminum curtain wall tower was set back from the street on a large open plaza, an arrangement unusual in the tightly packed Financial District and made possible by demolishing a dense block of older buildings. The plaza itself was landscaped with a sunken garden designed by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi and today displays Jean Dubuffet's sculpture Group of Four Trees, commissioned by David Rockefeller in the 1970s. The building and its plaza were widely credited with encouraging later corporate towers in Lower Manhattan to provide similar public open space.
- In Style: International Style, infobox architectural_style field: International
Uses Element: Stainless Steel, Wikipedia lead
It contains a stainless steel facade with black spandrels below the windows.
Uses Element: Steel, Wikipedia lead
It contains a stainless steel facade with black spandrels below the windows.
View the Source2. Wikidata: One Chase Manhattan Plaza
- Wikidata Q1050074, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q1050074, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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