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