Fox & Fowle Architects designed the tower for the Durst Organization, with WSP Cantor Seinuk as structural engineer. Construction began in 1996, and the first Condé Nast employees moved in on June 21, 1999. It has 48 usable stories on a trapezoidal lot of 45,800 square feet (4,250 m²), and 1.6 million square feet (150,000 m²) of floor area. The roof is 809 feet (247 m) high and the mast takes it to 1,118 feet (341 m).
The structure is concrete and steel around a concrete core. The south and east elevations are masonry, and the west and north are glass with green panels. A hat truss is hidden behind the roof signs. The corner houses the eight-story Nasdaq MarketSite.
It was among the first green skyscrapers in the United States. It has photovoltaic panels on floors 37 to 43, two fuel cells, and gas-powered chillers, though a critic compared it to a smoke-enders clinic on a tobacco farm.
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