The New York Times Building The lighting design for the building's nighttime identity was designed by the Office for Visual Interaction Inc. The tower rises from the street to its roof, with the exterior curtain wall extending higher to , and a mast rising to . , the building was tied with the Chrysler Building as the fourth-tallest building in New York City, due to the unfinished One World Trade Center exceeding their height. The tower is also the tenth-tallest building in the United States. The steel-framed building, cruciform in plan, has a screen of " (41.3 mm) ceramic rods mounted on the exterior of
Times Square Building (Rochester) in reference to Rochester's presence as "the flour city". The building originally hosted a Depression era mural by Carl William Peters (1897-1980) on exhibit from its opening that was later destroyed. The cornerstone of this bank was laid on October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday" of the 1929 stock market crash. Times Square Building (Rochester) The Times Square Building is an Art Deco skyscraper designed by Ralph Thomas Walker of the firm Voorhees, Gmelin, and Walker located in Rochester, New York, United States. At , it is the eighth-tallest building in Rochester, with 14 floors. The former Genesee Valley Trust Building