Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Liberty Tower, formerly the Sinclair Oil Building, located at 55 Liberty Street at the corner of Nassau Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City was built in 1909-10 as a commercial office building and was designed by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb in a Gothic Revival style. It was built on a site adjacent to the New York City Chamber of Commerce Building (1901); the subsequent New York Federal Reserve Bank building was constructed to the east, across Nassau Street, in 1922.A completely free-standing 33-story building, in 1909 Liberty Tower was the tallest building in the world with such a small footprint. Because the then new principles of \"skyscraper\" design were not yet fully understood, the building was overbuilt, with its steel foundation anchored deeply into bedrock five stories below street level. This overly sturdy construction helped this tall, slender building withstand the collapse of two World Trade Towers only 220 yards to the west on September 11, 2001, with only minimal damage despite the impact which was measured at the time as a 3.3 magnitude seismic event.The limestone building is covered in white architectural terracotta ornamented with birds and alligators and other fanciful subjects."@en }
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- Liberty_Tower_(Manhattan) abstract "The Liberty Tower, formerly the Sinclair Oil Building, located at 55 Liberty Street at the corner of Nassau Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City was built in 1909-10 as a commercial office building and was designed by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb in a Gothic Revival style. It was built on a site adjacent to the New York City Chamber of Commerce Building (1901); the subsequent New York Federal Reserve Bank building was constructed to the east, across Nassau Street, in 1922.A completely free-standing 33-story building, in 1909 Liberty Tower was the tallest building in the world with such a small footprint. Because the then new principles of \"skyscraper\" design were not yet fully understood, the building was overbuilt, with its steel foundation anchored deeply into bedrock five stories below street level. This overly sturdy construction helped this tall, slender building withstand the collapse of two World Trade Towers only 220 yards to the west on September 11, 2001, with only minimal damage despite the impact which was measured at the time as a 3.3 magnitude seismic event.The limestone building is covered in white architectural terracotta ornamented with birds and alligators and other fanciful subjects.".