| 词条 | 1221 Avenue of the Americas |
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| name = 1221 Avenue of the Americas | image = File:1221 Avenue of the Americas 2016.jpg | caption = 1221 Avenue of the Americas. 1251 Avenue of the Americas is visible to left. | location = 1221 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 U.S. | coordinates = {{coord|40|45|33|N|73|58|54|W|region:US-NY|display=inline,title}} | status = Complete | start_date = 1966 | completion_date= 1969 | est_completion = | opening = 1973 | destruction_date = | building_type = Office | antenna_spire = | roof = {{convert|674|ft|m}} | top_floor = | floor_count = 51 | elevator_count = 32 | architectural_style = International style | cost = | floor_area = {{convert|2,199,982|sqft|m2|0|abbr=on}} | architect = Wallace Harrison | structural_engineer = | main_contractor= | developer = | owner = Rockefeller Group (Mitsubishi Estate) | references = [1] }}1221 Avenue of the Americas (formerly also known as the McGraw-Hill Building) is an international-style skyscraper located at 1221 Sixth Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The 51-floor structure has a seven-storey base and a simple, cuboid massing. The intentionally featureless facade offers no decoration and consists of red granite piers alternating with glass stripes to underline the tower's verticality. There is a 35-meter setback from Sixth Avenue, featuring a sunken courtyard dominated by the 15-meter abstract steel sculpture named Sun Triangle by Athelstan Spilhaus. The tower's lobby is clad in dark red terazzo and red marble, and is also decorated with aphorisms by Plato and John F. Kennedy.[2] Background{{stack|float=right|{{Rockefeller Center map|highlight=7}}}} The building was part of the later Rockefeller Center expansion (1960s–1970s) dubbed the "XYZ Buildings".[3] Their plans were first drawn in 1963 by the Rockefeller family's architect, Wallace Harrison, of the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz.[4] Their letters correspond to their height. 1251 Avenue of the Americas is the "X" Building as it is the tallest at 750 ft (229 m) and 54 stories, and was the first completed, in 1971. The "Y" is 1221 Avenue of the Americas, which was the second tower completed (1973) and is the second in height (674 ft and 51 stories). The "Z" Building, the shortest and the youngest, is 1211 Avenue of the Americas with 45 stories (592 ft).[5] It is the 80th tallest building in New York. The building is the former headquarters of McGraw-Hill Financial, from which it derived its former name.[6] Other tenants include Sirius XM Satellite Radio, whose headquarters and broadcast facility are in the building. The sunken courtyard of this building contains a large metal triangle designed by Athelstan Spilhaus and fabricated by Tyler Elevator Products, arranged so the Sun aligns with its sides at solstices and equinoxes.[7] When built, the southwestern corner held a display of scale models of planets in the Solar System. A mosaic map of the Earth survives in the northwestern corner. In 2009, the structure earned LEED (Certified level designation) for Existing Buildings certification from USGBC.[8] {{multiple image|align=center |direction=horizontal |total_width=300 |image1=McGraw-Hill sundial jeh.JPG |caption1=Sunken courtyard |image2=1221 AA maps jeh.jpg |caption2=World maps ans sculpture Sun Triangle }}{{clear left}} 1999 elevator incidentAfter entering an express elevator at approximately 11:00 p.m. (EDT) Friday on October 15, 1999, Nicholas White, an employee of the building, who was going down to take a cigarette break, became trapped after a brief power dip caused the elevator to stop between the 13th and 14th floors. Though he signaled an alarm and there was surveillance video inside the elevator cab, White was not rescued until approximately 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 17, nearly 41 hours later, after security guards spotted him in the surveillance cameras.[9][10] In popular cultureThe buildings are featured in the opening credits of Saturday Night Live, seen from below looking up in the street from a car. It was used for the exteriors and lobby of Elias-Clarke's headquarters in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada and the interior shots for Suits. It is also the headquarters of Sirius XM Radio, and many radio shows broadcast from the building including The Howard Stern Show. {{-}}See also{{Portal|Architecture|New York City}}
References1. ^{{emporis|114548}} 2. ^{{cite web |title=THE McGRAW-HILL BUILDING II (1221 Sixth Ave.) |url=http://www.in-arch.net/NYC/nyc3a.html#65 |accessdate=27 December 2018}} 3. ^{{cite book |last1=Nash |first1=Eric |title=Manhattan Skyscrapers |date=1999 |publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |isbn=9781568981819 |page=127 |url=https://books.google.ru/books?id=l3aAA2Di1YkC&pg=PA127&dq=Celanese+Building&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit_MrZhcLfAhXGFSwKHVKjAMkQ6AEILDAB#v=onepage&q=Celanese%20Building&f=false |accessdate=28 December 2018}} 4. ^{{cite book | last=Krinsky | first=Carol H. |author-link=Carol Herselle Krinsky | title=Rockefeller Center | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=1978 | isbn=978-0-19-502404-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7xlDAQAAIAAJ | page=117 }} 5. ^{{cite book | title=Manhattan Skyscrapers | chapter=XYZ Buildings Exxon Building McGraw-Hill Building Celanese Building | publisher=Princeton Archit.Press | publication-place=New York, NY | isbn=978-1-56898-545-9 | doi=10.1007/1-56898-652-1_57 | pages=127–130}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=McGraw Hill Moves Downtown, Says Goodbye to Namesake Building|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/07/08/mcgraw-hill-moves-downtown-says-goodbye-to-namesake-building/|publisher=The Wall Street Journal|accessdate=14 July 2015}} 7. ^Natural History Magazine {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705204223/http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/city_of_stars/18_mcgraw_hill.html |date=July 5, 2008 }} Sun triangle 8. ^{{cite web |title=1221 Avenue of the Americas |url=http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/properties/1221-avenue-of-the-americas/ |publisher=USGBC |accessdate=25 December 2018}} 9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html|title=The Big City; Aftermath Of 40 Hours In an Elevator|last=Tierney|first=John|date=1999-10-28|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-07|issn=0362-4331}} 10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down|title=Up and Then Down|last=|first=|date=2008-04-21|website=The New Yorker|access-date=2017-05-07}} External links
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