140 Broadway
- Year
- 1967
- Style
- International Style
- City
- Manhattan, NY
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140 Broadway, formerly the Marine Midland Building, is a 51-story International Style office tower designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and built between 1964 and 1967 for developer Erwin S. Wolfson. Rising about 688 feet with roughly 1.17 million square feet of rentable space, it stands on a trapezoidal plot on Broadway between Cedar and Liberty Streets.
the building
Black trapezoidal facade. The tower has a mostly smooth black facade set on a trapezoidal plot, occupying only two-fifths of its block to conform to the 1961 Zoning Resolution.
Noguchi's Cube. The entrance is marked by Isamu Noguchi's Cube, a distinctive sculpture that has become one of the building's identifying features.
the style
Bunshaft designed the tower in the International Style, favoring a smooth, minimally ornamented black facade typical of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's postwar corporate towers.
More on International Stylesignificance
140 Broadway is a New York City Individual Landmark (LP-02530, designated 2013). Wolfson died before the tower's plans were finalized, and the building was later sold in 1998 to Silverstein.
nearby
- World Trade Center twin towers
- Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York
- Equitable Building
- Liberty Tower
- Singer Building
- American Surety Company Building