The Javits Center in Manhattan was designed by James Ingo Freed of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. The infobox lists no architect, and the text gives the 1979 selection as I. M. Pei and Partners. A state development corporation oversaw it, and a public-benefit corporation operates it. Ground broke on June 18, 1980, the structure topped out in December 1984 and it opened on April 3, 1986.
The text calls it a space frame structure. Its Crystal Palace measures 270 by 270 by 180 feet. FXFOWLE ran a 465 million dollar renovation from 2010 to 2013 that added a 6.75-acre sedum green roof. The infobox lists the expansion as 2013, but the text says one finished in May 2021, bringing the total to 3.3 million square feet.
In 2020 it served as a COVID-19 field hospital. It hosts trade shows and events. The article gives no hours.
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