Victory Development Corporation, Arlen Realty and Development Corporation
Engineer
W. A. DiGiacomo & Associates (mechanical) Max Siegel Associates (zoning)
Structural engineer
James Ruderman
Main contractor
Tishman Realty & Construction
Olympic Tower is a 51-story, 620 ft-tall (190 m) building at 641 and 645 Fifth Avenue, between 51st and 52nd Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the mixed-use development contains condominium apartments, office space, and retail shops. The tower is named after Olympic Airways, whose president Aristotle Onassis jointly developed the tower with the Arlen Realty and Development Corporation between 1971 and 1974. It was the first skyscraper to be constructed within a special zoning district to encourage retail and mixed-use development along Fifth Avenue.
The building's glass facade is designed to reflect St. Patrick's Cathedral immediately to the south. The superstructure is made of steel on the lower stories and cast concrete on the upper stories. The first two stories contain a public atrium, Olympic Place, which connects the 51st and 52nd Street facades. The next 19 stories contain office space while the top 30 stories contain 230 condominium apartments. Upon Olympic Tower's completion, architectural writers such as Ada Louise Huxtable and Christopher Gray criticized its design.
Construction of Olympic Tower dates to the late 1960s, when Best & Co. sought to build an office tower above their store at Fifth Avenue and 51st Street. Morris Lapidus was initially hired for the project, but the plans were changed after the zoning district was created. When the building was completed, wealthy non-American buyers purchased most of its residential units. Crown Acquisitions bought Olympic Tower from its original owners in the 2010s.
OlympicTower is a 51-story, 620 ft-tall (190 m) building at 641 and 645 Fifth Avenue, between 51st and 52nd Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood...
The OlympicTower (German: Olympiaturm) in the Olympic Park, Munich has an overall height of 291 m (955 ft) and a weight of 52,500 tons. At a height of...
The Beijing OlympicTower (Chinese: 北京奥林匹克塔; pinyin: Běijīng Àolínpǐkè Tǎ) is located on Kehui South Road, part of the Olympic Green in the Chaoyang District...
Montreal Tower (French: La Tour de Montréal), part of the city's Olympic Stadium (French: Le Stade olympique) and Parc Olympique and formerly known as...
The Bell Tower of Berlin Olympic Stadium was a 77-metre-high (253 ft) observation tower that was built in 1934 after plans by Professor Werner March. The...
as the Orbit Tower or its original name, Orbit) is a 114.5-metre (376-foot) sculpture and observation tower in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford...
surpassed by the Lusail Plaza Towers. The tower has also been known as Khalifa Sports Tower or Doha OlympicTower. The tower was a landmark of the 2006 Asian...
2014, the 246.8-metre-tall (810 ft) Beijing OlympicTower's five circular roofs are meant to evoke the Olympic rings; although it has also been described...
ending at The Olympic Stadium Tower. As a task, teams had to do a face-first rappel (known as the Angel Dive) down the Helsinki OlympicTower. Since March...
controlled over $1.7 billion of US real estate assets. Arlen Developed OlympicTower with Aristotle Onassis in 1975. The building is a 52-story building...
Olympic Park is in Tower Hamlets. It was formed in 1965 by merger of the former metropolitan boroughs of Stepney, Poplar, and Bethnal Green. 'Tower Hamlets'...
Panathenaic Stadium which hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896. Parthenon and the Eiffel Tower can also be seen in the background on both sides of...
ArcelorMittal Orbit, an observation tower and Britain's largest piece of public art. It was simply called The Olympic Park during the Games but was later...
castle in South France; the OlympicTower (a 52-storey high-rise in Manhattan); another building in Sutton Place; Olympic Airways and Air Navigation;...
named "the Marathon Tower", was to indicate for miles around where in Amsterdam the Olympic Games were being held. This tower was associated with the...
Nanjing Olympic Suning Tower (Chinese: 南京奥体CBD苏宁广场) is a skyscraper on-hold in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It was expected to be completed in 2017 but was...
Aldo Gucci. In the early 1980s, he lived in a luxury penthouse in the OlympicTower, gifted to him by his father. In 1982, he moved back to Milan, and in...
Hudson Yards, Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, OlympicTower and Sony Center. Oxford also owns a portfolio of luxury hotels in Canada...
gifted his son and daughter-in-law with a luxury penthouse in New York's OlympicTower. Patrizia became active in New York social circles, making regular appearances...
The Eiffel Tower (/ˈaɪfəl/ EYE-fəl; French: Tour Eiffel [tuʁ ɛfɛl] ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named...
tournament staged at the Eiffel Tower Stadium in Champ de Mars. This is the first time in the history of the Olympic volleyball competition, each team...
Florida; Rome; Paris; Cannes; London; and a multi-floor penthouse in OlympicTower in New York. Khashoggi also owned several private jets, and super-yachts...
observation tower in the Southern Hemisphere. Sydney Tower has also previously been known as AMP Tower and Centrepoint Tower, and colloquially as Flower Tower, Glower...
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