One Vanderbilt is located in the heart of New York City’s East Midtown, directly adjacent to the Grand Central Terminal – one of the busiest, most crowded commuter and rail hubs along the eastern United States. Image Credit: KPF

Standing at 1,401 feet tall and spanning 1.7 million square feet, One Vanderbilt is the tallest office tower in Midtown Manhattan and the second tallest office tower in New York City. Image Credit: Raimund Koch

The skyscraper is headquarters for many of the world’s leading finance, banking, law and real estate firms. It also features the second highest observatory experience in New York City and an 11,000-square-foot restaurant. Image Credit: KPF

Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) Associates was tapped for One Vanderbilt’s iconic design, which follows the layered language of great New York buildings as the Chrysler and the Empire State. Image Credit: Raimund Koch

At the base, a series of angled cuts organize a visual procession to Grand Central Terminal, revealing the Vanderbilt corner of its magnificent cornice—a view which has been obstructed for nearly a century. Image Credit: Michael Moran OTTO

One Vanderbilt’s design integrates $220 million of private investment from SL Green for public open space and transit improvements, including a new 42nd Street street-level entrance with direct access to Grand Central Terminal. Image Credit: Michael Moran OTTO

One Vanderbilt features floor-tofloor heights ranging from 14 ft. 6 in. to 24 ft., column-free floorplates, 360-degree views through floor-to-ceiling windows, and best-in-class infrastructure. Image Credit: Michael Moran OTTO

Adjacent to the transit hall is a new 14,000-square-foot, car-free pedestrian plaza on Vanderbilt Avenue between East 42nd and 43rd Streets. Image Credit: Michael Moran OTTO

One Vanderbilt transforms the civic experience of the Grand Central District, introducing new accessible pathways to one of the city’s largest transportation hubs. Image Credit: Evan Joseph

The tower’s terracotta facade, which incorporates a distinct profile and glaze inspired by the ceiling tiles found throughout Grand Central Terminal, provides the soaring structure a natural, luminous texture while complementing its historic context. Image Credit: Michael Moran OTTO

The infrastructure improvements include a new 4,000-square-foot public transit hall inside the tower, providing enhanced connections to Metro-North Railroad, the shuttle to Times Square and the future Long Island Rail Road station. Image Credit: Evan Joseph

All of these greater public infrastructure benefits enhance the daily lives of residents, commuters and tourists traveling through East Midtown and into the greater city. Image Credit: Evan Joseph

Blending best-in-class architecture with state-of-the-art infrastructure and sustainable design, it has ushered in a new era of building design and in the process not only renewed East Midtown but the very vision of urban engineering as well. Image Credit: Evan Joseph

SL Green also built two new street-level subway entrances and reopened the Mobil Passageway that connects Grand Central to a new entrance on the southeast corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Image Credit: Evan Joseph

One Vanderbilt Avenue is SL Green Realty Corp.’s skyline-defining tower, developed with its partners Hines and the National Pension Service of Korea. Image Credit: Max Touhey

One Vanderbilt represents a new model for how the private sector and government can work together to deliver crucial public infrastructure benefits, created in partnership with the City of New York and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as part of the historic rezoning of East Midtown. Image Credit: KPF