270 Park Avenue, Corporate skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, United States
270 Park Avenue is a 60-story office tower in Midtown Manhattan distinguished by diagonal steel braces visible across its glass exterior. The main entrance sits several floors above street level and creates a continuous passage between two major avenues.
The site held the Hotel Marguery from 1917, then the 52-story Union Carbide Building, which opened in 1960 and was demolished from 2019 to 2021. JPMorgan announced the replacement in February 2018, the City Council approved it unanimously in May 2019, and the tower was topped out on 20 November 2023. Staff moved in on 25 August 2025, and it opened officially on 21 October 2025.
The lobby holds Gerhard Richter's painted-aluminium works Color Chase I and Color Chase II, and Norman Foster's bronze flagpole Wind Dance, which blows air from its pinnacle to hold up an American flag. Outside, Maya Lin's stone artwork A Parallel Nature, made of 239 pieces of Vermont granite, faces Madison Avenue.
The tower fills the block between Madison and Park Avenues and 47th and 48th Streets, with public plazas facing both avenues. A new entrance at the southwest corner leads down to Grand Central Madison and Grand Central Terminal. Maya Lin's granite artwork A Parallel Nature stands in the Madison Avenue plaza.
The tower is the largest fully electric skyscraper in New York, running entirely on renewable power from a New York State hydroelectric plant. Its facades above the top two setbacks are covered on all sides by Leo Villareal's light artwork Celestial Passage, made of 181,200 panels; by law the lights go dark by midnight.
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