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New York Times Headquarters

620 8th Avenue
New York City NY United States

Status: built
Construction Dates
  Began 2004
  Finished 2007
Floor Count 52
Floor Area 143,639 m²
Elevator Count 32
Building Uses
 - office
 - garden
 - retail
Structural Types
 - highrise
 - pole
Architectural Style
 - late-modernist
Materials
 - aluminium
 - glass

  Heights   Value Source / Comments  
Spire 318.8 m
Glass fins 244.1 m
Roof 227.4 m

Description
- Architect: Renzo Piano

- Spire architect: Fox & Fowle

- Double layered facade: A system of small ceramic tubes covering transparent glass. The tubes will take the color of the sky.

- Upper section of spire is designed to sway slightly in the wind.

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