Deutsche Bank Center (also known as One Columbus Circle and formerly Time Warner Center) is a mixed-use building on Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building occupies the western side of Columbus Circle and straddles the border between Hell's Kitchen and the Upper West Side. It was developed by The Related Companies and Apollo Global Management, and designed by David Childs and Mustafa Kemal Abadan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Deutsche Bank Center features twin towers, connected by a multi-story atrium. They are the tallest twin buildings in the United States. The building has a total floor area of . It contains office space, residential condominiums, the Mandarin Oriental, New York hotel, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center entertainment venue. The Shops at Columbus Circle shopping mall is placed at the base of the building, with a large Whole Foods Market grocery store on the lower level.

The building was built on the site of the New York Coliseum, formerly New York City's main convention center. Plans for the project, then known as Columbus Center, were approved in 1998. Construction began in November 2000 and a topping-out ceremony was held in 2003; the project was known as AOL Time Warner Center during construction, but the "AOL" name was dropped before opening. Time Warner Center officially opened on February 5, 2004. Deutsche Bank replaced WarnerMedia as the anchor tenant of the office area in May 2021 and it was renamed Deutsche Bank Center.

Site

The center is on the west side of Columbus Circle, on the border of Hell's Kitchen and the Upper West Side, in Manhattan, New York City, United States. It occupies an irregular plot of land bounded by 60th Street to the north, the Coliseum Park apartment complex to the west, and 58th Street to the south. The eastern boundary consists of Eighth Avenue, Columbus Circle, and Broadway from south to north. The land lot covers , with a frontage of on Columbus Circle and a depth of .

The building is near Trump International Hotel and Tower to the northeast, Central Park to the east, 2 Columbus Circle and 240 Central Park South to the southeast, and Central Park Place to the south. As part of the construction of what was then Time Warner Center, the existing subway staircase was refurbished and an elevator was added to the subway entrance. Because the building did not include a zoning bonus, the developers did not need to fund a renovation of the subway station, as Hearst Communications was obligated to do when it built Hearst Tower one block south.

Deutsche Bank Center occupies the site of the New York Coliseum, The Coliseum opened in 1956 as New York City's main convention center, being superseded by the Javits Center in the 1980s. Around the same time, the area around Columbus Circle was being redeveloped, in part because of the Coliseum's success. This prompted the Coliseum's owner, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), to place the building up for sale in 1985. An agreement on the site's redevelopment was not finalized until 1998, and designs for the Coliseum replacement itself were not in place until 1999.

Architecture

thumb|Time Warner Center as seen from Columbus Circle in 2006

Deutsche Bank Center was designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Specific portions of the interior were designed by different architects. AOL Time Warner, Apollo Global Management, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Palladium Company, and the Related Companies were the developers. Stephen M. Ross, CEO of the Related Companies, said that SOM had been selected since they "create great architecture but also speak the language of business". Bovis Lend Lease was the construction manager for much of the interior, including mechanical systems. Another 80 to 100 subcontractors were also hired for different parts of construction.

Deutsche Bank Center includes towers to the north and south, joined at the base. The building is split into eight different ownership units: the basement parking garage, the Shops at Columbus Circle mall, Jazz at Lincoln Center's facilities, the original AOL Time Warner office space, the six other office stories, the condominium units in the north and south towers, and the Mandarin Oriental New York hotel. About of mechanical and underground space is not counted under zoning law. Deutsche Bank Center uses a total of of glass, as well as of steel and of concrete.

Form and facade

The base of Deutsche Bank Center measures wide, as measured from north to south, by deep. The space between the towers is on axis with 59th Street and Central Park South. The western and eastern facades of both towers are aligned 30 degrees counterclockwise from the axis of Eighth Avenue and Central Park West. Both towers are 55 stories tall with a roof height of . The pinnacle of each tower consists of a lantern measuring tall.

The base of Deutsche Bank Center contains a limestone facade with large window openings, which taper off into glass bands. Atop the towers are glass parapets that absorb natural lights. The structure consists of a grid of stainless-steel cables apart vertically and apart horizontally. Laminated-glass panels measuring thick are placed within the cables.

The southeast corner of the building, at Eighth Avenue and 58th Street, contains a triangular wedge-shaped glass structure measuring about tall. As part of an agreement with the New York City government, the structure could not include advertising. Prow Sculpture, an art installation by David Rome, was then installed in the structure by 2004. This consists of 12 sets of 36 translucent panels, each supported by vertical trusses. The panels each contain light-emitting diodes that change color once every few minutes. The garage spans three stories and has sensors to monitor how many vehicles are parked in the garage. At ground level, the lobby for the south tower's residences is on 58th Street while the north tower's hotel and condominium lobby is on 59th Street. In addition, there are office lobbies on both 58th and 59th Streets; that on 58th Street originally served the Time Warner lobby.

Mall

thumb|The lobby and shops in 2010, when the complex was known as Time Warner Center

Deutsche Bank Center has a four-story retail mall, the Shops at Columbus Circle, which opened in 2004 along with the rest of the complex. Designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects, The mall's ground-floor tenants include designer shops and restaurants. Among the first retail tenants in the mall were a Whole Foods Market, as well as an Equinox gym, both in the basement. as well as other eateries such as Porter House New York

The mall is designed to follow the curve of Columbus Circle, measuring long. A passageway, extending north and south from the atrium,

Jazz at Lincoln Center

Within the base of Deutsche Bank Center is Frederick P. Rose Hall, a complex for Jazz at Lincoln Center, designed by Rafael Viñoly. It consists of three venues. The Rose Theater, on the fifth floor, is the primary venue for Jazz at Lincoln Center, with 1,100 to 1,300 seats. The Appel Room, originally the Allen Room, is above the atrium with a large glass wall facing Columbus Circle, with space for up to 600 seats. Dizzy's Club is named after trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and contains 140 seats. as well as the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame.

thumb|left|Rose Theater

Rose Theater is acoustically separated from the rest of Deutsche Bank Center. The auditorium, weighing , is supported by 26 insulating gaskets on concrete footings. The gaskets consist of steel plates measuring thick, between which are neoprene synthetic-rubber pads. There are also neoprene pads, measuring thick, on the wall of the auditorium. Steven H. Sommer of Bovid Lend Lease, the hall's construction manager, compared the layout to "a small cardboard box in a larger cardboard box packed with Styrofoam peanuts". Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show, Anderson, recorded in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Allen Room from 2011 to 2012.

Studios

The eighth floor of the north tower has studios originally designed for Time Warner's subsidiary CNN. The CNN studios covered The spaces covered floors four through nine. The black-box studios overlooked the park, as did one of the newsrooms, designed for financial news subsidiary CNNfn. CNN's studios in Time Warner Center operated until the network relocated to 30 Hudson Yards in 2019.

Offices

At the building's completion, it had a total office area of approximately . The Time Warner offices originally accommodated 1,600 employees on 17 floors in the building's southern section. , almost all of the building's office space, including both the Time Warner office space and the other space, is occupied by Deutsche Bank. The Mandarin Oriental New York spans floors 35 through 54, taking up in Deutsche Bank Center. The interior decorations were mostly created by Hirsch Bedner Associates,

The only entrance to the hotel is from 60th Street, where there are elevators to the hotel lobby. The ground-floor vestibule, designed as an ellipse, There are 66 residences in the north tower,