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Late Modernist Architecture
Times Warner Center, NY
BY-
Akshay Kumar Suman
B.Arch. IV yr.
Introduction to Building
• Status - Completed in 2003• Architect – David M. Childs of SOM• Location - 10 Columbus Circle
New York• Height - 750 ft (229 m )• Floor - 55 above ground• Type - Multifunctional building• Investment- $1.7 bn• Owner - The Related Companies
Architect – David M. Childs
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• Birth - 1941 Princeton, New Jersey
• Background - Yale school of architecture & New York Institute of Technology.
• Project - 7 World Trade Center, Worldwide Plaza ,US News & world report Head Quarter and many more.
• The complex has an interesting geometry derived from its site, its concave front facing onto the curve of Columbus Circle
• its dominant twin towers shaped as parallelograms
• Perfectly calibrated, glittering glass facades, the suave, sharp-edged precision that is amazingly subtle and refined for a structure of this enormous size.
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• Steel and alloys are used in panes and in window , in few parts exposed frame are used .
• Skeleton Building• As geometrical mass• Metal grid facade
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• Shopping mall,whole food market grocery shop at the base of the building
• The complex is also home to a 1,200 seat theater for Jazz at Lincoln center as well as CNN studio.
• The two-hundred-and-fifty-room Mandarin Oriental hotel condominium apartments, a big retail atrium, restaurants, and space for cultural events
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Thank you
Source-www.nyc-architecture.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner_Center
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