Trump Tower Closeup - New York City

Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue was designed by Der Scutt of the architectural firm Swanke Hayden Connell Architects and completed in 1983.

The building features a dark glass curtain wall and a distinctive sawtooth facade that creates additional corner offices and enhances natural light. This also creates terraces that are planted with trees that from the sidewalk below, appear to be growing directly out of the skyscraper.

Reflected in the modernist glass pains of the building is the limestone and gold trim of the ornate French Renaissance style Crown Building (1922) across Fifth Avenue.