Time-Life Building at Rockefeller Center

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The Time-Life Building at Rockefeller Center is a prominent mid-20th-century modernist office skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that once housed the headquarters of Time Inc.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf commercial building
high-rise building
modernist building
office skyscraper
alsoKnownAs 1271 Avenue of the Americas
Time & Life Building
architect Harrison & Abramovitz
Max Abramovitz
Wallace Harrison
architecturalStyle International Style
Modernist architecture
category Modernist architecture in New York City
Rockefeller Center
surface form: Rockefeller Center buildings

Skyscrapers in Manhattan
city New York City
completionDate 1959
constructionStartDate 1956
country United States of America
surface form: United States
developer Rockefeller Group
surface form: Rockefeller Center Inc.
features curtain wall facade
plaza on Sixth Avenue
public art in lobby
floorCount 48
formerTenant Fortune magazine
Sports Illustrated
Time Inc.
Time magazine
Time-Life
height approximately 587 feet
locatedIn Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
New York
New York City
Rockefeller Center
United States of America
surface form: United States
locatedOn Avenue of the Americas
material aluminum
glass
limestone
namedAfter Time Inc.
Time-Life
neighborhood Midtown Manhattan
openingDate 1959
owner Rockefeller Group
partOf Rockefeller Center
streetAddress 1271 Avenue of the Americas
use commercial
office

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Wallace Harrison designed Time-Life Building at Rockefeller Center