The Time & Life Building, 1271 Avenue of the Americas NY

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The Time & Life Building. January 1960Architect Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris (Wallace Harrison)Developer Rockefeller Center Development CorporationAt the time of its completion, the building's 48 floors of 2,600 m² were the largest in the world thanks to the column-free interior spaces, with the support columns rising outside the curtain wall, at 8.53 m intervals.Time-Life occupied 21 of the floors itself, with the rest rented out to various tenants.The 179 m tall building was the tallest slab-formed skyscraper in the city so far, although eventually it became the shortest of the Center Extension skyscrapers. The exterior column piers are clad in limestone and the walls between consist of green-tinted glass with thin, facade-high aluminium mullions and window-covered mesh spandrels.