Source: http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC/nyc.html

Height: 688 ft/210 m
Floors: 52
Year: 1967
Architects: SOM

HSBC was completed in 1967 as another influential bank headquarters next to the Chase Manhattan Bank, by the same architect.
The 52-storey building is notable for its slightly trapezoidal plan form, tapering to the side facing Broadway and reducing from four to three structural bays, as well as the first use of a flush, homogenous curtain wall. The 221 m tall facade consists of dark-tinted glass with matt black anodized aluminium spandrels and thin mullions, giving the building a distinguished appearance that was consequently widely copied. There is 92,900 m² of total internal space within. The building was considerably drawn back from the Broadway street line and a plaza of white travertine was created on the vacated part of the plot. On the plaza stands Isamu Noguchi's Cube (1967), a holed red-orange cube standing on its corner. Bunschaft had first proposed a monolith-like sculpture, but it was estimated to be too expensive.

The Pictures

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nice facade on this. 7/10

nice glass building

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i like this slim building, 8/10

I love this building as much as I love Trump. I just love the slenderness.

7/10 slim and tall

I like the building and the red sculpture, 8/10

6.5/10

Nice facade but looks old from some angles.

I like this box.
7.5/10

mmm what would mies van der rohe say about that building?

9. It was a pioneer in flush facades, and certainly executed it well.

nice one....i like SOM's Black towers....9/10

7.5/10 its a bit too boxy to me.

8/10 it impressed me on my trip, its tall and slim great engineering and great building :cool:

it an ok box, 7

cannot get excited about it. makes me think of... nothing. just mass in a form without being too interesting. no inspiration in design generates no feelings when you look at this building. quite slim, fortunately.

5.0

OK, 6/10

Light is not this buildings friend. 6/10

7/10. Not bad for a plain box (well trapezoid)

5.5

7/10...It's a decent black box, it's very dark though making it appear dull. I love the sculpture in the mini plaza.

5

Nothing special.....

box -1

slim 8/10

Pleasantly unpretentious.....interesting glass/non-glass proportion. A well-dimensioned total.
9/10

Cool 8.0

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Nice box

4.5/10. Sorry, I don't like it

7/10

Nothing special, but the box looks good

7.5/10

I like this one. 8/10

7.5/10 Nice facade

8/10

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7.5

Extremly typical and not that nice. 6/10

6/10

4/10 - ugly colour

Wow it's very nice. although not completely for me i just can't critisize it.

slimness is the best quality about this building. otherwise, it's just another one of your joe international style buildings. but at least it didn't kill an architectual wonder like what its neighbor 1 liberty plaza did to singer building.

6.5

i like the glass very much!

7.5/10

8.5/10

Decent scraper. 8.

Not the best black box in the league. I give it a 7/10.

Nothing special, 6

7.5/10

One of my favourites buildings in NYC 9/10

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7/10

7.5/10 great building.

remember me the trump and i like it 8/10

7.5/10

Nice, slim box. I like its colours. 8/10

5/10

ugly nothing specila to offer 5/10

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7/10
Average

9/10

I like those glass...6.5/10

7/10

7.5/10. Its a nice tower that always gets overshadowed by a bigger, taller black tower a block away; 1 Liberty Plaza. But this one's smooth surface makes it look sleek compared to its neighbor.

7/10

a 10

a beautiful sleek tower , one of my favorite in NYC

I love boxes, nice glass too!
8.5/10

9/10

I hate boxes!!!!!! . . . . . . But this one deserves a 10! Looks tall, slim, clean, powerful... a New Yorker, after all.

shiny glass is nice 7.5/10

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9/10. I love it.... very "Miesian" looking. Sleek, elegant and stands the test of time.

Nice box

6/10

Ok, 7.5/10

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7.5 - 8/10

6/10 Your average black box in Manhattan

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7/10, shiny

6/10

2/10. Yet another box.

8/10
pretty nice building, good shape and facade

7.5 dull..

5/10 :ohno:

not my type of box. 6/10

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6.5

4.5 / 10

6/10

eww 4

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For a box its pretty nice 7/10

where's the traditional HSBC on top of the building?

Looks too easy to me, a 6 out of 10.

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8/10 nice shiney glass and a good example of internetional style...

7.5/10 nice proportions

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10/10

Haha, they even put a cube on the plaza in front! The cult of the box! Oh well.
5/10

7/10

nice glass building

6ix

7/10

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6/10

8. Good building. Regards.

8/10

9/10 glassy

10/10:)

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