745 Seventh Avenue

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745 Seventh Avenue (also known as the Lehman Brothers Building and Barclays Building) is a 575 ft (175 m), 38-story skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and originally built in 2001 for financial services firm Morgan Stanley, it was instead purchased by competing firm Lehman Brothers and served as Lehman's headquarters until the bank's collapse in 2008. The building has since served as the headquarters of Barclays' investment banking division. The building occupies the western end of a block bounded by Seventh Avenue, 49th Street, Sixth Avenue, and 50th Street. It is made of steel, granite, and glass and is topped by a glass parapet. The building also features 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) of screen displays incorporated into the facade of its third through fifth stories. The building is bounded to the east by a public plaza running through the block from 49th to 50th Street, and underground passageways connect the building...

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