From Carbide to Chase
René Ammann
25. 四月 2022
The 52-story Union Carbide Building, seen at left in an advertisement from 1957, was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, while the 60-story JPMorgan Chase headquarters is being designed by Foster + Partners. (Right: Visualization by DBOX for Foster + Partners)
Height of the former Union Carbide Building in New York City, the tallest building ever voluntarily demolished, which made way for an even taller building, the 1,388-foot (423m) "all-electric" skyscraper for JPMorgan Chase: 708 feet (216m)
