- Bertelsmann Building
Infobox Skyscraper
building_name = Bertelsmann Building
caption =
location =Times Square ,New York City ,United States Cite web |title=Bertelsmann Building |url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=bertelsmannbuilding-newyorkcity-ny-usa |publisher=Emporis.com |accessdate=2008-01-10]
groundbreaking = 1989 Cite web |title=Bertelsmann Building |url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1033 |publisher=SkyscraperPage.com |accessdate=2008-01-10]
coordinates = coord|40.758135|-73.984853|format=dms
built = 1990
opening = 1990
use = Office
antenna_spire = 733 feet (223 m)
roof = 616 feet (188 m)
top_floor =
floor_count = 42
elevator_count =
cost =
floor_area = 1,100,000 sq ft (102,190 sq m)
architect =Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
engineer =
contractor =
developer =Eichner Properties
owner =Bertelsmann
management =Bertelsmann Building, originally known as 1540 Broadway,cite news |title=Debacle on Times Square |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DA163EF936A15757C0A965958260&scp=1&sq=Debacle+on+Times+Square+ |publisher="
New York Times " |date=1993-04-25 |accessdate=2008-01-10] is a 42-story, 733 foot (223 m) office tower inTimes Square inManhattan ,New York City , standing at West 45th Street. The building is the North American headquarters ofBertelsmann .Started in 1989 and finished in 1990, the tower is one of the few in Times Square to contain
class A office space . It contains the world's largest music store, aVirgin Megastore . Also found in the tower isPlanet Hollywood 's first Official All Star Café.In the 1990s the Bertelsmann subsidiary of
Random House looked to build a skyscraper across 45th Street from its parent and be connected to it via a neon-lighted bridge across 45th Street connecting them. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E6D71138F937A35751C0A96F958260 55th Street Is Said to Be Site For a Random House Tower - New York Times - February 4, 1999] ] When the deal fell through it built theRandom House Tower 10 blocks uptown.References
ee also
*
List of tallest buildings in New York City Further reading
*Jerry Adler (1994). "High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper", HarperCollins Publishers.
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