View from the cablecar to Roosevelt Island
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The Hearst Tower Project
The official site of the building with lots of construction photos.
March 15, 2004: Steel being put into place.
Location: 8th Ave and 56th St
Architect: Sir Norman Foster
Saga of the Hearst Tower on Wired New York
The original Hearst Tower was designed by Joseph Urban and begun in 1928.
When the depression came, plans to complete the base were shelved until now.
The official site of the building with lots of construction photos.
March 15, 2004: Steel being put into place.
Location: 8th Ave and 56th St
Architect: Sir Norman Foster
Saga of the Hearst Tower on Wired New York
The original Hearst Tower was designed by Joseph Urban and begun in 1928.
When the depression came, plans to complete the base were shelved until now.
Bank of
America (One Bryant Park) Bank of
America (One Bryant Park) Bank of
America (One Bryant Park)
Architects: Cook + Fox
Contruction beginning in Spring 2004
Early in 2007, an extraordinary crystalline skyscraper of steel, aluminum and glass will rise from the northwest corner of Bryant Park to illuminate Midtown Manhattan. Developed by the Durst Organization to house the New York headquarters of the Bank of America, it promises to reshape the urban skyline of the future as surely as did the famed Crystal Palace, the first glass and steel building in America, when it rose from Bryant Park in 1853.
One Bryant Park on Wired New York
Official Bryant Park website
The greatest little park in the world :)
AR: You have studied ceramics and tiles more than most contemporary architects. How will you use them in New York?
Renzo Piano: Ceramics are metamorphic materials. They have a great ability to bleach and change, to echo the weather. For me, the most beautiful quality of Manhattan is its ability to change with atmospheric changes. One of the most poetic views of Manhattan is of its forest of buildings as they take the quality of the weather. New York is a peculiar place because it’s very hard, very tough when you touch the ground. It’s made of stone and steel. But as soon as you break from the ground and go up, you can see it’s one of the softest cities in the world.
Link to this interview
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 Development design. Mock up prototype |
Frank Gehry's proposal, and the presently demolished corner building across from the Port Authority bus terminal that took up this skyscraper's lot. The NYT Tower will feature a 350- seat auditorium, a courtyard filled with birch trees, and a roof top garden of maples
Location: 8th Ave and 41st St
Architect: Renzo Piano
New York Times Tower on Wired New York
The New Yorker article : Spiffing Up The Gray Lady
Location: East side of the West Side Highway, (11th Avenue) between West 18th and
West 19th Streets (across from Chelsea Piers).
Architect: Frank Gehry
9 stories, with underground parking level and rooftop mechanical penthouse level.
Intercative Corp. are, among others, the owners of Expedia, Match.com and CitySearch, Home Shopping Network and Ticketmaster.
Looks like a plate of Sashimi. Mmm.
The Porterhouse The Porterhouse The Porterhouse The Porterhouse The Porterhouse The Porterhouse The Porter
In the hip Meatpacking District just north of the Meier building, architect Gregg Pasquarelli of SHOP architects has placed a six-story, gunmetal-gray box at an off-angle on top of a renovated older brick building. The juxtaposition of styles is jarring and original. The most daring touch is the placing of flat, rectangular electric lights at irregular intervals on the exterior of the building and in the hallways. These make the Porter House one of the most visually distinctive buildings in the city.
Copyright 2004 Slate
SHoP Architects
This pair of new apartment buildings designed by Richard Meier is the rarest of things in Manhattan: distinctive, original residential architecture. One of the last of the Modernists, Meier here has dropped his usual preference for solid-white buildings and instead designed see-through ones. Meier has taken Modernist patriarch Philip Johnson's "Glass House" and stretched it into apartment buildings. The Perry Street towers doubtless have their flaws. Their chic residents such as Nicole Kidman and Calvin Klein are completely exposed in their full-story apartments until they add some curtains. But the building's emphasis on views fits its location overlooking the Hudson River. The apartments sell as unfinished concrete shells for several million dollars; Klein paid a reported $14 million for the three-story penthouse.
Copyright 2004 Slate
Perry West on Wired New York
173&176 Perry Street - Map it!
Perry West on WiredNewYork
A rendering of all three tower,
the rightmost one still awaiting construction.
Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!
Bruce Springsteen - My City's In Ruins
Way to go - see you in 2005!
Official Silverstein Properties 7 WTC website
7 WTC on Wired New York
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"I wouldn't have been as confident and excited about this building, maybe, before 9/11, but with New York showing that it's going to rebuild downtown better than ever, and to stand proud, this just seems like the right building for the right time."
Frank Sciame
