1 Chase Manhattan Plaza between Pine and Liberty streets
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Date Constructed: 1960
10th tallest in NYC (as of 2004)
Height: 813 ft (248 m); 60 floors.

At One Chase Manhattan Plaza, the flagship building of New York’s largest bank is an example of stereotypical modern architecture, a tall “glass box” of a building with the vertical elements emphasized and the windows slightly recessed. The builders took advantage of a zoning law that allowed them to add extra floors at the top in exchange for a plaza at street level. This plaza is now occupied by a blocky fiberglass sculpture entitled Four Trees, by Jean Dubuffet.