ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 376
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Mon Apr 21 12:17:04 PDT 2008
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RENZO PIANO'S NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING
by Michael J. Crosbie
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Ask most architects to name the most elemental
ingredients of great architecture, and chances are they
will say "space and light."
But these are not necessarily the first two words that
come to mind when thinking about skyscrapers, especially
tall buildings in New York City.
They're considered objects in space, but they can't
really be appreciated in that way unless we back off a
bit and see them isolated on the skyline o the way the
Empire State Building is often portrayed, or Mies van
der Rohe's Seagram Building, which has the benefit of a
generous setback from Park Avenue, making it a bronze
trophy on a pedestal.
But from within, neither Seagram nor Empire State nor
most of the hundreds of other tall buildings in New York
contain architecture's essence of space and light.
The New York Times Building changes all that. The
52-story tower, filling out its site on 8th Avenue
between 40th and 41st Streets in midtown Manhattan, is
all about the space and light within.
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by Terri Peters
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Like its competitors, BMW knows that cool sells. And
there is no doubt that BMW Welt - the German motor
company's new sales, exhibition, and event center in
Munich - is cool.
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