Millennium Point
2 West Street | also 39 Battery Place, 10 West Street, 10 Little West Street | Battery Park City | built 2003
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- 2001
Millennium Point wins a Silver Emporis Skyscraper Award
The 38-story, 449-foot tower at 25 to 39 Battery Place was built from 1999 to 2001 and earned the 2001 Silver Emporis Skyscraper Award. The tower portion holds 113 luxury condominiums, while the wider lower twelve floors house a hotel that opened as the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park and is now The Wagner at the Battery. The hotel has 298 rooms, 44 of them suites.
“The building won the 2001 Silver Emporis Skyscraper Award. The tower section contains 113 luxury condominiums.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2002
The 38-story Millennium Point tower opens after a 9/11 delay
Construction on the 449-foot, 38-story tower ran from 1999 to 2001, but its opening was pushed back to January 2002 by the September 11 attacks nearby. The building combined 113 luxury condominiums above a 298-room hotel, originally branded the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park, with the Skyscraper Museum occupying part of the ground floor. The tower's design won the 2001 Silver Emporis Skyscraper Award.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2004
The Skyscraper Museum becomes the first museum to open in Lower Manhattan after 9/11
In March 2004 the Skyscraper Museum reopened in its permanent home at 39 Battery Place. It takes 5,800 square feet on the ground floor, space donated by the developer. Founder and director Carol Willis teaches architectural history and urban studies as a professor at Columbia.
“In March 2004, the museum reopened in its new permanent home at 39 Battery Place ... It was the first museum to open in Lower Manhattan after the September 11 attacks.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2004
A Skidmore architect works for free to make a 10-foot ceiling feel tall
Roger Duffy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the museum's ground-floor interior without charge. The ceilings are only ten feet high, so he covered the floors and ceilings with polished stainless steel, which mirrors the space and gives an impression of endless height. The site also has two exhibition rooms, a bookstore and an office mezzanine.
“The new site was designed by Roger Duffy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, working pro bono. ... giving the illusion of an infinite vertical space.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2006
The museum shows the original World Trade Center model
On September 6, 2006, the Skyscraper Museum opened an exhibit on the building of the World Trade Center and what happened to the site afterward. It includes the original architectural and engineering model of the complex. The show opened five days before the fifth anniversary of the attacks.
“On September 6, 2006, the museum opened an exhibit on the construction of the World Trade Center and the complex's subsequent history.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2009
China Prophecy: Shanghai opens, covering Jin Mao and Shanghai Tower
China Prophecy: Shanghai opened on June 24, 2009, as a multimedia exhibition on Shanghai's changing identity as a city of skyscrapers. It featured towers including Jin Mao, Tomorrow Square, the Shanghai World Financial Center and the super-tall Shanghai Tower.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2011
"Supertall!" lines up buildings of 1,250 feet and up
In 2011 the museum opened Supertall!, an exhibit on buildings at least 381 meters (1,250 feet) tall, the height of the Empire State Building. It covered qualifying towers built since 2001 and those due to be finished by 2016.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Millennium Point (New York City)Wikipedia
- “New York City as It Will Be in 1999”Ephemeral New York
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