Type Commercial offices Roof 84.13 m (276.0 ft) Opened 1964 Floors 20 Owner Unico Properties | Completed 1964 Floor count 20 Height 84 m Architecture firm NBBJ Architect Minoru Yamasaki | |
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Location 1200 Fifth Avenue
Seattle, Washington, 98101 Floor area 225,000 sq ft (20,900 m) Similar IBM Somers Office Co, Rainier Tower, IBM Hakozaki Facility, 1250 René‑Lévesque, One Atlantic Center | ||
The IBM Building is a 20-story skyscraper in the Metropolitan Tract at 1200 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, Washington. The building was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, who also was architect of Rainier Tower on the corner diagonally opposite, and the World Trade Center in New York City. Its construction was completed in 1963.
Map of IBM Building, 1200 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Nard Jones wrote in 1972 that "There is an architectural poetry about [the building] that is at variance with the endless jibes at computerization and the alleged sober pragmatism of IBM personnel.
The corner of the complex at 5th Street and University Avenue was once the site of the Seattle Ice Arena from 1915 to 1963.
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