The New York Times is moving from its century-old headquarters on West 43rd Street to a new building on Eighth Avenue, between 40th and 41st streets. The first reporters have already begun moving in to the new 52-story tower, which was designed by Renzo Piano. Gothamist oberves how the new building is changing the neighborhood, which is centered on the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Upon completion, The New York Times will own and occupy the lower half of the building; the ever-controversial Forest City Ratner Companies will lease the upper floors.
The New York Observer profiles the newsroom at the building, discussing how it embodies the new media strategy of Times’ publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.
By mid-June, when construction is completed on the new high-tech newsroom—located in floors two through four of a pedestal-like lower wing of the building—several Web producers will head downstairs, integrating with their fellow print reporters. Instead of reporters sitting next to the people whose bylines will be adjacent to theirs in print, they’ll be sitting next to people producing content for several different platforms at once.
Annie Leibovitz documented the building’s construction between July 2005 and July 2006. The photographer says she was inspired by the 1930s images of Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine, who photographed the construction of the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building.
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Architecture Update 04/14/2007 | 1:10 am
New Home for the Times…
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Troy 04/14/2007 | 6:29 am
The New York Times Building is the most significant new building to be designed for the NYC skyline in decades: it’s the first high rise curtain wall with ceramic sunscreen to be built in the US. Ultra clear low iron glass will be draped in ceramic tubes to create a curtain wall that reflects light and changes color throughout the day. At the base, floor to ceiling glass will provide a view into the building to reveal a lobby designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The integration of exterior and interior architecture and nature and the built environment comes to its apex at the fully visible ground floor garden. Open to the sky, this garden of moss and birch trees will create a garden like none other. Adjacent to the garden, a 378-seat auditorium provide a significant amenity to the tenants of the building 856 feet in the sky. At its peak, the buildings curtain wall of ceramic will extend beyond the rood to finish the building in a lacelike crown of white.
Liz75 04/14/2007 | 6:34 am
… further informotion and good images on New York Architecture Images and Notes…
Sam 04/14/2007 | 6:37 am
The New York Building on Wikipedia!
Boy George 05/30/2007 | 7:35 am
Oh wait. Yes, I have. I’m sorry, but I just don’t have it in me right now to type it all out again. Besides, it was just ramblings anyway. You didn’t want to hear me go on and on about this, right?