CTBUH Gold Member

SL Green Realty Corp.

About

Member Since: 2015

Member Offices: New York City

Website: http://slgreen.com/

SL Green Realty Corp., an S&P 500 company and Manhattan's largest office landlord, is a fully integrated real estate investment trust, or REIT, that is focused primarily on acquiring, managing and maximizing value of Manhattan commercial properties. As of September 30, 2020, SL Green held interests in 93 buildings totaling 40.6 million square feet. This included ownership interests in 29.2 million square feet of Manhattan buildings and 10.3 million square feet securing debt and preferred equity investments.

Fields of Expertise

Developer; Owner (Buildings, Land); Property Management

Buildings

RANK
Name
Height
1 One Vanderbilt Avenue

427 m / 1,401 ft

3 One Astor Plaza

227 m / 745 ft

4 Metropolitan Life Tower

213 m / 700 ft

5 919 3rd Avenue

188 m / 615 ft

6 810 7th Avenue

154 m / 506 ft

7 Lefcourt National Building

153 m / 503 ft

8 Tower 45

148 m / 487 ft

9 100 Park Avenue

148 m / 485 ft

10 Daily News Building

145 m / 476 ft

11 Harper & Row Building

144 m / 473 ft

Building Completions Timeline

Videos

17 October 2016

X Information Modeling: Data-Driven Decision Making in the Design of Tall Buildings

This presentation outlined X-Information Modeling or XIM, a method of data-driven decision-making for the design of tall buildings. Developed over its application on more than...

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Research

22 August 2022

Livable Density: The Hybrid Office Building

The recently completed One Vanderbilt Avenue tower has become the standard bearer for one of New York City’s most ambitious zoning initiatives of the past...

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Research

12 January 2021

Interactive Study on Tall Buildings in 2020: COVID-19 Contributes To Dip in Year-On-Year Completions

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has released its annual report, CTBUH Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2020, part of the Tall...

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RANK
Name
Height
1 One Vanderbilt Avenue

427 m / 1,401 ft

2 One Madison Avenue

286 m / 938 ft

3 One Astor Plaza

227 m / 745 ft

4 Metropolitan Life Tower

213 m / 700 ft

5 919 3rd Avenue

188 m / 615 ft

6 810 7th Avenue

154 m / 506 ft

7 Lefcourt National Building

153 m / 503 ft

8 Tower 45

148 m / 487 ft

9 100 Park Avenue

148 m / 485 ft

10 Daily News Building

145 m / 476 ft

11 Harper & Row Building

144 m / 473 ft

12 Montague-Court Building

141 m / 462 ft

13 The Olivia

134 m / 440 ft

14 750 3rd Avenue

133 m / 436 ft

15 1350 Avenue of the Americas

127 m / 416 ft

16 280 Park Avenue

126 m / 412 ft

17 Graybar Building

119 m / 392 ft

18 485 Lexington Avenue

115 m / 377 ft

19 461 5th Avenue

115 m / 376 ft

20 555 West 57th Street

97 m / 318 ft

21 215 Park Avenue South

80 m / 263 ft

22 315 West 36th Street

80 m / 261 ft

23 182 Broadway

79 m / 260 ft

24 One Madison Avenue

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25 Metropolitan Life Home Office Building

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Statistics

Average Building Age*

64 Years

Most Common Function*

Office (100%)

Most Common Material*

Steel (60%)

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Based on 6 buildings over 150 m height with a function
 
Based on 5 buildings over 150 m height with a material
 

Building Completions Timeline

Building Map

Construction Time Chart

NOTE: Construction start time is not available for all buildings. The average construction time is only displayed if there is three or more buildings with construction start and complete data in that year.

Designated Experts

17 October 2016

X Information Modeling: Data-Driven Decision Making in the Design of Tall Buildings

This presentation outlined X-Information Modeling or XIM, a method of data-driven decision-making for the design of tall buildings. Developed over its application on more than...

17 October 2016

CTBUH 2016 China Conference - Session 3a: Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Q&A

Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Richard Witt, Quadrangle Architects; James von Klamperer Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; Keith Griffiths, Aedas; Peter Brannan, Arquitectonica answer questions...

26 October 2015

One Vanderbilt: Approving Midtown’s Tallest Office Building

This presentation traces the development of One Vanderbilt from early design through the complex city approvals process that is ultimately allowing for its realization. From...

26 October 2015

Interview: James von Klemperer

James von Klemperer of KPF is interviewed by Chris Bentley during the 2015 CTBUH New York Conference at the Grand Hyatt New York. James discusses...

18 September 2014

Urban Density and the Porous High Rise: The Integration of the Tall Building in the City

September 18, 2014. Shanghai, China. James von Klemperer from Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC presents at the 2014 Shanghai Conference closing plenary on "Urban Density...

22 August 2022

Livable Density: The Hybrid Office Building

James von Klemperer & Andrew Cleary, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

The recently completed One Vanderbilt Avenue tower has become the standard bearer for one of New York City’s most ambitious zoning initiatives of the past...

12 January 2021

Interactive Study on Tall Buildings in 2020: COVID-19 Contributes To Dip in Year-On-Year Completions

CTBUH Research

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has released its annual report, CTBUH Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2020, part of the Tall...

30 January 2020

Tall Building Predictions for 2020

CTBUH Research

The combined brains of the CTBUH editorial and database staff boldly predict what might happen across the global skyscraper industry in 2020. Check out our...

17 October 2016

X Information Modeling: Data-Driven Decision Making in the Design of Tall Buildings

James von Klempeter, Luc Wilson & Mondrian Hsieh, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

This paper outlines X-Information Modeling or XIM, a method of data-driven decision-making for the design of tall buildings. Developed over its application on more than...

26 October 2015

One Vanderbilt: Approving Midtown’s Tallest Office Building

James von Klemperer, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

This paper traces the development of One Vanderbilt from early design through the complex city approvals process that is ultimately allowing for its realization. From...

26 October 2015

Fire/Life Safety in High-Rise Buildings

James Carrigan, Brian Blicher & Laura Bennett, SYSKA Hennessy Group; Chief Ronald Spadafora, New York City Fire Department

Syska Hennessy Group and the Fire Department of the City of New York propose a paper and presentation detailing an overview of Fire/Life Safety in...

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