One Liberty Place
by Dawn Gari
Title
One Liberty Place
Artist
Dawn Gari
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
One Liberty Place is located on the corner of Market and 17th Streets in Philadelphia, PA. It is 61 stories tall (945 feet, )and is the second tallest building in Philadelphia.[ The building has 1,200,000 square feet with an average floor size of 24,000 square feet. Helmut Jahn is an admirer of American eclecticism and Art Deco and when designing Liberty Place he used New York City's Chrysler Building as a reference. Rouse said that he calls it the "Son of Chrysler" because of the similarity in design. The most notable similarity to the Chrysler Building is the 146 feet tall spire that crowns the skyscraper. One Liberty Place's spire is made up of four gabled setbacks leading up to a 2-ton, 47 feet long steel spire on top. Instead of curved setbacks like on the Chrysler Building, One Liberty Place's setbacks use straight angular edges. The facade's color ranges between grays, silver, and metallic blues and uses horizontal bands of granite and glass to de-emphasize the visual impact of the height of the tower. The building's lobby features white and gray marble imported from Italy. The elevator lobby and the elevator cabs echo the shape of the building's spire while the elevator doors feature abstraction of One Liberty Place itself.
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January 17th, 2015
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