Everything about The Singer Building totally explained
The
Singer Building at
Liberty Street and
Broadway in
Manhattan, New York, was an office building completed in 1908 as the headquarters of the
Singer Manufacturing Company.
The building's architect,
Ernest Flagg, was a supporter of height limitations and restrictive zoning, and showed his solution to tall-building crowding with the Singer's set-back design. The 12-story base of the building filled an entire blockfront, while the tower above was very narrow.
At 612
feet (187
m) above grade, the Singer Building was the
tallest building in the world from its completion until the completion in 1909 of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower on
Madison Avenue, again in Manhattan.
The building was demolished in 1968 as it was claimed to be functionally obsolete, and in order to make way for the subdued U.S. Steel Building (currently known as
One Liberty Plaza). The tower floors were squares only 65 feet (20 m) on a side. It remained the tallest occupied building ever destroyed until the
September 11, 2001, collapse of the nearby
World Trade Center. It is still the tallest building ever lawfully demolished; it's also thought to have been the tallest free-standing structure ever demolished until the destruction of the
Avala TV Tower on
April 29,
1999.
Note: The demise of the 646.38 metres (2,120.67 ft) tall
Warsaw radio mast was due to a maintenance accident and it was a
guyed structure.
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