9. 30 Park Place

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Quite overshadowing the Woolworth Building next door (itself once the tallest buildings in the world), 30 Park Place is a residential skyscraper by Robert A.M. Stern, who has been favoring more traditional building materials and methods of late in his residential designs– limestone, brick and in this case, granite in a masonry technique. 30 Park Place will be completed this year with a height of 937 feet and 82 stories. There will be a Four Seasons Hotel on the lower floors and a courtyard separating it from the Woolworth Building, located on the same block,