I'm sure some of you remember this project, it's currently under construction.

Stats:

Building Height: 597 ft (182 m)
Number of storeys: 42 (including the 6 story base)

The architect is Norman Foster, this is his first project ever in NYC.

The tower is being built atop the Hearst Magazine Building, a 6 story landmark built in 1928.

Renderings:

High resolution rendering:

http://www.permasteelisausa.com/image/exteriors/Hearst2.jpg

Lobby interior:

http://www.permasteelisausa.com/image/exteriors/Hearst1.jpg

http://www.permasteelisausa.com/image/exteriors/Hearst3.jpg

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/artist/render2.jpg

http://home.1asphost.com/savethewtc/hearst.jpg

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/artist/render3.jpg

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image2.jpg

Updates


http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image43.jpg
April 20, 2004: Panoramic shot showing the floor progress at The Hearst Tower site.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image44.jpg
April 20, 2004: Workers prepare conduit at The Hearst Tower site.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image45.jpg
April 24, 2004: Steel truss is erected at The Hearst Tower site.

I took this picture at the site on 4/30, too bad you can't see much:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/24042004_0430Image0024.JPG

Nice, i like this tower. It's my favorite of all that's going up in NY (architecturally) other than Calatrava's WTC station.

I think it really fits in with the current skyline. It looks great inside from the renderings!

Yeah...this is one of the best designs for NYC at this moment. Look at that lobby! IMPRESSIVE! Foster has done good work on this one! :)

looks nice...

what's the word on the NY Times tower btw?

That's cool, quite funky, a really good Foster debut for NYC.

What on earth!!, This tower is gonna ROCKS the World!!!..:eek:

that's a fucked up nice building, New York has the future again!!!

That's a fucked up nice building, New York has the future again!!!

looks nice...

what's the word on the NY Times tower btw?

Demolition to clear up the site for the NY Times tower is underway, check out some pics over here:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=26525&page=4

Yes, this one is amazing! I hope it's topped out when I visit NYC for the first time.

Siblings across The Atlantic.....

_______________http://www.fosterandpartners.com/internetsite/images/project_media/1124/1124_02.jpg__http://www.fosterandpartners.com/internetsite/images/project_media/1004/1004_02.jpg

http://img62.photobucket.com/albums/v190/Muse11/nychearst.jpg_http://img62.photobucket.com/albums/v190/Muse11/londswissretower.jpg


The 6-storey 1928 edifice and entrance which the N.Y.C. Foster tower is obviously being placed within - The Depression squelched Hearst's plan to erect a high-rise on top of it....

_____http://www.wirednewyork.com/real_estate/hearst_magazine_building/images/hearst_magazine_building_57th.jpg

_____http://www.wirednewyork.com/real_estate/hearst_magazine_building/images/hearst_magazine_building_8th.jpg

If it turns out anywhere near as dramatic as Swiss Re it will be wonderful!

How tall is Swiss Re?

Those renderings are soooo real looking. I was thinking about this nuilding today in school funny. I really like it.

I like it and it looks like it blends in good with the building below it.

Found these at skyscrapers.com, dated 5/18:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/2404hearst518.jpg

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/2404hearst5182.jpg

It's a short building but I really like the idea and its looks. ;)

It's a short building but I really like the idea and its looks. ;)


R u kiddin me?, I dont consider 597 ft "short" lah...but if it's in New York skyline, the surrounding will make it looks shorter than it should be....:)

most significant Fosters construction for now. Very neat.
Love the areal view of the site with all the cranes ! superb work, it looks like a very challenging construction site judging by the narowness of it.

I really don't like this building. It's cool how it's on top of an old building and all, but it's just not my type of skyscraper. Neither is Swiss RE btw.

Me Like

I really don't like this building. It's cool how it's on top of an old building and all, but it's just not my type of skyscraper. Neither is Swiss RE btw.

I agree,maybe if they had built a skyscraper with Art Deco resemblence,like Bank of America in Charlotte,It would have been better.

They are currently building some nice things in NEW YORK. It's amazing that they will build the tower on that other building, lol.

Updates from the tower's site:

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image51.jpg
June 3, 2004: 17-ton super column being erected at the Hearst Tower site.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image52.jpg
June 3, 2004: Crane positions super column at the Hearst Towr site.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image53.jpg
June 4, 2004: Super column positioned into place.

I really don't like this building. It's cool how it's on top of an old building and all, but it's just not my type of skyscraper. Neither is Swiss RE btw.


I have a feeling that it will look much better when it's built than shown in he renderings. I tend to think the real thing always looks much better than the renderings.

wow...i like the concept, build on top of an existing building instead of demolishing =)

the coolest building being built in the city right now. i work a block away - and can't wait to see this thing rise up. Foster's London (St. Mays Axe?) Bldg. looks like a big butt plug to me - but this one in visually more interesting to me.

God I wish they chose his design for the WTC. sigh :(

Great work by Norman Foster! It's fantastic that he respects the 'historic' building beneath. Superb! m))

Some updates from the Hearst site...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image54.jpg
June 28, 2004: Elevation floors 10, 11, and 12 looking Northwest

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image55.jpg
June 30, 2004: Diagrid construction begins at The Hearst Tower project site.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image56.jpg
July 15, 2004: Node is fastened.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image57.jpg
July 15, 2004: Workers prepare 14th floor node.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image58.jpg
July 16, 2004: “Y nodes” installed as The Hearst Tower project reaches an early milestone.

wow..the structure is rising visibly now! :eek:

love to see the diagonals coming together

This tower is awesome the way it's going to become, but imagine if it went up to 1000 feet and was a part of the new WTC... :drool:

Funky, i love it!
BTW what the hells going on in the background of this picture it looks like some kind of ghost skyscraper!
http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image52.jpg

Found these at skyscrapers.com, dated 5/18:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/2404hearst518.jpg

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/2404hearst5182.jpg
Thanks for using my pics.

QUOTE:Funky, i love it!
BTW what the hells going on in the background of this picture it looks like some kind of ghost skyscraper

AOL Time Warner Center with a little haze obscuring the view.

Looks quite cool, lobby looks great! :)

Funky, i love it!
BTW what the hells going on in the background of this picture it looks like some kind of ghost skyscraper!
http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image52.jpg


I noticed that too. Well, I don't know what it is. Must be another skyscraper in clouds or some sort of mist.

Behind it there is Central Park Place and ghosts of WTC. Well, that's actually TWC, but in several ways they ARE ghosts of WTC, like some resemblance on the skyline.

Some progress:

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image59.jpg
August 10, 2004: Concrete being poured on the 10th floor.

Wow, Im glad to see the site progressing:) Whats the completion date again?:D

I noticed that too. Well, I don't know what it is. Must be another skyscraper in clouds or some sort of mist.

isn't that "ghost" skyscraper Time Warner Center?

this one will look amazing, i didnt know it was U/C :eek:

now thats some thing eles
Love the base and it so looks liek it should have scraper on top

Wow, Im glad to see the site progressing:) Whats the completion date again?:D

Completion date is set for June 2006.

BTW, the ghost skyscraper in the back is some residential tower, not the TWC.

norman foster is a legend. Sydney is very fortunate atm. we are getting two skyscrapers designed by the master!
242m/40st BT Tower>
it will have 150m high atrium with separate floor plate for offices and 9 glass lifts on separate core.
http://www.3designarchitect.com/images/gallery%20office/3%20126%20Phillip%20St%2001.jpg

& his first residential project>
Regent Place-151m/47st & 114m/35st

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/126lumiere-med.jpg

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image52.jpg

The towers on the left is TWC, the clearer one on the right is residential.

2 more construction pics of Hearst Tower.

22nd August '04

http://www.pbase.com/image/32882685.jpg

From Columbus Circle:

http://www.pbase.com/image/32882920.jpg

Hearts Tower is next fantastic work Foste's

HeartTower is next fantastic work Foster'sIneed it is, not forgetting BT Tower and Lumiere and Fraser Suites @ Regent Place in Sydney posted earlier in this thread by CULWULLA.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image52.jpg

thats cityspire on the background? :eek:

Ineed it is, not forgetting BT Tower and Lumiere and Fraser Suites @ Regent Place in Sydney posted earlier in this thread by CULWULLA.
I don't forgett, the BT Tower the most pleases to me it is excellent.
In Warsaw build similar to BT Tower, Rondo 1:

http://www.sky.s64.pl/home/Plany/rondo01.jpg

but Norman Foster's building in Warsaw is Metropolitan:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/3052/3385276253tzpoem_ph.jpg
http://www.hochtief.pl/pliki/1061558977Metropolitan%20d.jpg

http://www.hochtief.pl/pliki/1061556247Metropolitan.d.jpg

very nice one! i like the contrast between the old bottom and the futuristic tower!

also like it as it's very creative and something new!!!

Dennis, a larger pic of the one you posted with Citispire in the background:

___________http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/503/379hearsttowersonst4.jpg


The relevant Citispire:

________________http://www.skyscraperphotos.com/cit/dny02/b/igny226.jpg__http://www.skyscraperphotos.com/cit/dny02/b/igny227.jpg


Siblings across the Atlantic...

NYC's Hearst Tower will be 597ft/182m on completion and the
already completed St Marys Axe A.K.A. Swiss Re already completed is 590ft/180m.

http://img62.photobucket.com/albums/v190/Muse11/nychearst.jpg_http://img62.photobucket.com/albums/v190/Muse11/londswissretower.jpg

thats cityspire on the background? :eek:

No, it's not. It's some residential tower, not Cityspire, don't know the name of it.

No, it's not. It's some residential tower, not Cityspire, don't know the name of it.

Central Park Place :)

Update...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image62.jpg
August 23, 2004 -- View of atrium space.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image61.jpg
August 23, 2004 -- Floors 16, 17 and 18, looking northeast.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image60.jpg
August 23, 2004 -- Aerial view of The Hearst Tower project.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image63.jpg
September 17, 2004: The Hearst Tower, view from 8th Avenue.

Interesting building immediately to its left in the final picture in the post before the last one...the international style looking building, bulky and oddly shaped, looks like a PSFS sort of with the attached mechanical coulmns and all...like this building, my fav NYC current project

amazing project, too bad we don't have that in Frankfurt:(
Keep up the updates!
love the last picture of post 56

Yes, teh last pic in post 56 is great! Amazing update angle!

This tower will be so cool! :)

Great building... It will be so nice...

nice

Interesting read...

NY Times

Hearst Tower Echoes Trade Center Plan

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2004/10/07/nyregion/blocks.184.1.jpg
Norman Foster, the architect, touring the Hearst Tower, a 42-story headquarters building that will feature a quiltwork diagonal grid.

By DAVID W. DUNLAP
Published: October 7, 2004

OF the nine might-have-beens from the 2002 design study for the new World Trade Center, one is actually taking form in microcosm. It isn't by Daniel Libeskind. And it's nowhere near ground zero.

Instead, what has begun to claim an angular place in the sky is Norman Foster's Hearst Tower, near Columbus Circle.

With its bold introduction of a quiltwork diagonal grid, or diagrid, into the relentlessly right-angled cityscape, the future headquarters of the Hearst Corporation gives some sense of what New York might have experienced in Lord Foster's proposal for the trade center site.

The case should not be overstated. The two designs differ in important respects, beginning with their massing and scale. The Hearst Tower is a single building, rising 597 feet from the hollowed-out shell of a six-story landmark structure. The trade center proposal called for two towers, joined at three points, rising 1,764 feet.

(Come to think of it, perhaps that was the strategic error made by Lord Foster in his trade center design. It may have been 12 feet too short for the liking of state officials, who were captivated by the symbolism of Mr. Libeskind's 1,776-foot proposal.)

Nonetheless, the emergence of the steel framework of the Hearst Tower, now roughly 270 feet above the sidewalk on Eighth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets, offers New Yorkers their first full-scale taste of one of Lord Foster's diagrids.

More disorienting than any other feature of the Hearst Tower are its crimped corners. They will slope inward at 75 degrees for four stories, then outward at 105 degrees for four stories, then inward, then outward, inward, outward, inward, outward, inward.

"Once you have a diagrid, there's no reason to have a vertical column on the corner," said Brandon Haw, a senior partner in Foster & Partners of London, which is working on the Hearst Tower with Adamson Associates Architects. Cantor Seinuk is engineering the structure. Flack & Kurtz are the mechanical engineers. Turner Construction is building the 42-story tower, which is to be finished in 2006.

This zigzag profile utterly confounds expectations. After all, even buildings with sloping crowns or curving facades can be pretty much counted on to have straight-edged corners. It simply seems to be in the order of things. Not at the Hearst Tower.

And not in the trade center proposal, either. Starting 224 feet apart on the ground, these buildings would have leaned toward one another, meeting at the 42nd floor; then diverged outward to a distance of 224 feet, joined by a bridge on the 84th floor; then leaned inward again to meet at the 126th-floor summit.

The Hearst Tower zigzag occurs on a much smaller scale. The basic triangle in the diagrid is four stories tall, or 52 feet. And the crimp is meant to play a neighborly role.

"It cuts back and offers more of a view than a vertical slab," Lord Foster said, pointing across a 15-foot-deep crimp toward the adjacent Sheffield apartment tower.

The views from within are also revelatory. Where the corner of the building rakes inward, for example, one can stand as far as 10 feet from the window sill, look down and still see Eighth Avenue almost directly below. (On an ordinary floor, the view would be of carpet tiles.) From inside out, the powerful diagrid becomes a delicate weblike network. Fourteen pairs of slender diagonal columns seem to dance lightly around a perimeter that would normally be a palisade of uprights.

"You wonder how much mass can be carried with such little interruption," Lord Foster said. Indeed, the diagrid uses 21 percent less steel on the exterior than a conventional frame.

Yet, he said, it is a robust structure that offers many alternate paths to carry the weight loads in case of a partial collapse.

THE most surprising facet of the Hearst Tower - and the one most difficult to see from the street - is the atrium that has been created within the shell of the Hearst International Magazine Building, a designated landmark designed by Joseph Urban for William Randolph Hearst.

It opened in 1927 but was never really completed, since Hearst contemplated a tower for which the six-story structure was to be a base.

With the approval of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, Hearst hollowed out the building. The new tower rises from within these old walls, supported on diagonal and upright megacolumns. Its lowest floor doubles as the ceiling of a new 70-foot-high atrium.

The space between the landmark shell and the new skyscraper will be enclosed in glass, creating a vast skylight and clerestory. But the persistence of the old facade around the atrium will create the sense of a town square, Lord Foster said.

Because of security concerns, it is a town square that will not be open to the town - except by invitation or on tours or at special events - although it will be possible for the public to get a glimpse of the atrium from the ground floor.

To judge from the emerging structure, however, the exterior will give New Yorkers plenty to talk about and reason enough to wonder what might have been built downtown. Or, given that Lord Foster is one of Silverstein Properties' prospective architects at the trade center site, what still might be.

http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2004/10/06/nyregion/20040704_blocks_lg.gif
Lord Foster’s proposal for World Trade Center site called two towers rising 1,764 feet.

http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2004/10/07/nyregion/blocks.184.2.450.jpg
The tower, which is near Columbus Circle, is to be finished in 2006.

Updates from Hearst site...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image65.jpg
October 8, 2004: Inside shot of clerestory panels.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image64.jpg
October 8, 2004: Installation of clerestory panels on SE corner of Tower.

Glasssssssssssssssss!!!!

great pics! i love foster, and this tower!

This tower is phenominal! They should have chosen foster for the WTC.

This tower is phenominal! They should have chosen foster for the WTC.

dude i totally agree

Looking GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful tower! Great original design. His WTC proposal was awful IMO. In some renderings, it looked as tho it could topple at any moment. Very awkward and unstable-looking structure.

Will this have an impact on the skyline at all or is it surrounded by taller bldgs?

Here's an update from the Hearst website, glass is going up!

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image66.jpg
November 8, 2004: Glass continues to be fitted around the structure.

It will really add character to the skyline.

More from the Hearst site, the stainless steel has arrived...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image67.jpg
November 15, 2004: First stainless steel-clad section arrives

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image68.jpg
November 15, 2004: First stainless steel section installed on the southeast corner of the tenth floor

So the silver steel will go over the black parts? Hm... The black is kinda nice actually.

so from what i see there's a second skin that's yet to be fitted if i compare to renderings?

so from what i see there's a second skin that's yet to be fitted if i compare to renderings?

Yea, sure lookes like it. My guess is that the black you see on the facade are just protective strips that will be peeled off.

Unless another coating will go over the black facade?

but you must be right because i had a much closer look at the last pic you posted and it looks like indeed it'll peel off the glass paneling.
i think if it wasn't to keep the building in lighter color scheme for the original building base, it'd look great in black too.

I pretty sure they'll be putting stainless steel over the black window mullions.

I love the stainless steel. It reminds me of the WTC's exterior.

It's too bad they didn't go with Foster's design for that.

:puke: :wtf:

why dont you try to recycle the original building and build something more neo-clasic
this project looks just F horrible

Beautiful building!

NYC's comin up again

:puke: :wtf:

why dont you try to recycle the original building and build something more neo-clasic
this project looks just F horrible

Come on you are on a skyscraper forum, not a classic architecture forum so don't be surprised that your opinion might not be shared by many! I think it would be creatively bankrupt and lazy to build some psuedo art deco building there as if it were still 1930 when they had access to the money and talent neccesary to build something contemparary.
This new tower is quite
nice in my opinion.

BTW I imagine you might have a more favorable opinion if it were being put up in your city....its a decent tower - has height and a distinct look and is certainly not worth a "vomit smile"

A beautiful tower !!! i love Norman Forter...

Great view...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image69.jpg
November 26, 2004: View from the 28th floor of The Hearst Tower

cool tower, what more can u say.. love the shape.. love its based, really goes to show that old and new can be close together, on top of each other for that matter!

i want more pics of the tower!

this is def one of my fave u/c projects anywhere in the world!

I'm not a big fan of this project, but I couldn't say I don't like it either: according to some people here, is it supposed to be more horrible than the "classic" building seen three posts above?

I have to agree with Shaun. If I lived in NYC, I'd update you guys everyday on this project.

indeed

not seen you in superpolis that much jps.... looking forward to some more proposals from you to stimulate it (again)!

cheers

Fine. I'll try to get there this week weather permitting. :tongue3:

indeed

not seen you in superpolis that much jps.... looking forward to some more proposals from you to stimulate it (again)!

cheers

Well the Term at ISU is almost over. Then I'll have a month off to relax and be creative again over at Superpolis. My writing creativity is shot to hell, so I'll need that month off.

Fine. I'll try to get there this week weather permitting. :tongue3:

Sorry buddy. I meant that to be sarcastic. Seriously though, I appreciate your updates. I'm 3,000 miles away from NYC, so you are my eyes over there. :)

lol - No problem. I do want to check out the glass they put up though, so I am gonna try to make it. (Rain/Snow combo is planned for tomorrow/Tuesday but hopefully later in the week clears up.)

I would love to get back into my CRX and drive it back to NYC and Boston. That was the most spontaneous and thrilling thing I ever did. Photos don't do NYC justice. That place is bigger than life.

Everytime I watch the intro to the Sopranos I get that same feeling that I got when driving up the Jersey Turnpike and coming up over a hill to see NYC's immense skyline.

Wired New York put up a live webcam with a sweet view of the building:

http://www.wirednewyork.com/webcam2/

This one is a very good tower, I am glad that the works are so advanced already.

cool webcam!

Fantastic renderings and thanks for the construction heads up.
It'll look reaally nice!

That's nuts......I like the trend of using existing facades for new construction......this is being practiced in Seattle as we speak!

amazing project its nice to see such an unconventional building in nyc ...
lets hope the cladding will come out as nice as swiss re ... which i think
is what made swiss re such a great scraper ... even more so than the shape
go go go :):):)

Update...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image70.jpg
December 23, 2004: The Hearst Tower looking southwest from 57th Street.

So awesome! It's coming up fast! :D

Looks like it's coming along nicely...:)

Looks nice already :)

NY's glass accordian! I love it.

This is an amazing skyscraper. I'm not a big fan of this new Freedom-Tower-Type style but this one inparticular is stunning!

That's a fucked up nice building, New York has the future again!!!
I know, :lol: .

Its more than half way now.

Nice update. It's going faster than I expected:)

That's nuts......I like the trend of using existing facades for new construction......this is being practiced in Seattle as we speak!

For which project???

Neat...i used to hate norman foster...but now im starting to love his style

December 29, 2004

http://img134.exs.cx/img134/7866/dscf0090hearsttowerucdec04toth.jpg

Looking south
http://img134.exs.cx/img134/7635/dscf0091hearsttowerucdec04toth.jpg

Some of that pimp steel
http://img134.exs.cx/img134/8015/dscf0092hearsttowerucdec04nort.jpg

http://img134.exs.cx/img134/8764/dscf0093hearsttowerucdec04toth.jpg

http://img134.exs.cx/img134/1595/dscf0094hearsttowerucdec04toth.jpg

Here's some of that truck with the steel or something
http://img134.exs.cx/img134/8365/dscf0095hearsttowerucdec04truc.jpg

http://img134.exs.cx/img134/411/dscf0096hearsttowerucdec04truc.jpg

http://img109.exs.cx/img109/1919/dscf0097hearsttowerucdec04urns.jpg

Some of that old facade
http://img109.exs.cx/img109/3994/dscf0098hearsttowerucdec04oldf.jpg

http://img109.exs.cx/img109/699/dscf0100hearsttowerucdec04truc.jpg

http://img109.exs.cx/img109/9717/dscf0101hearsttowerucdec04truc.jpg

http://img109.exs.cx/img109/7157/dscf0104hearsttowerucdec04truc.jpg

wow~ these are some secent pics ey?~~ ^^
i always liked fosters designs,,,hee

This building is so beautiful! I walked by it the other day and was overwhelmed! How tall is it supposed to be?

This building is so beautiful! I walked by it the other day and was overwhelmed! How tall is it supposed to be?

It's going to be 597 ft (182 m.)

Nice shots LeCom, the glass is coming out really well.

It's going to be 597 ft (182 m.)

Nice shots LeCom, the glass is coming out really well.

Awesome! It's amazing how a 600 foot building is lost in NYC!

I was hoping they would have more silver up so we can see what the final will look like. Oh well.

looks a cothic and future design but damn its a nice looking building go nyc.

how mant floors is this skyscraper.

what do you mean by pimp steel lecom.

how mant floors is this skyscraper.

42 floors

this is looking great! Foster is a genious! Sydney is also lucky to have two projects atm uc by Foster. the 45storey/151m Lumiere residential complex and 40storey/240m 126 Phillip street!>
http://www.3designarchitect.com/images/gallery%20office/3%20126%20Phillip%20St%2001.jpg

It looks soooo great. I love construction pics!

Looks great. Can anyone give me the exact adress? I'm going to NYC in april. I would like to check it out... maybe take some pictures!

Looks great. Can anyone give me the exact adress? I'm going to NYC in april. I would like to check it out... maybe take some pictures!

Address is 959 Eighth Avenue, between 56th and 57th streets. It's near the Time Warner Center too.

Can anyone tell me the exact adress please? I'm going to NYC in april. Want to take some pictures!

Tnx,

Another update...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image71.jpg
January 5, 2005: Birdsmouth panels installed.

Another update...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image71.jpg
January 5, 2005: Birdsmouth panels installed.

Wow! It looks way thinner than I thought it would be. This makes me like it even more ;) Keep up the good work!

Nice update!

Can anyone tell me the exact adress, please? I'm going there in April and would like to check it out.

EDIT: Sorry... had a problem with my computer, so I asked this ten times! :bash: Thanks for the answer. I'll look it up!

Greetings,
J@ckal!

Can anyone tell me the exacte adress please. I'm going there in April and would really check this constructionsite out.

Stop spamming Jackal, you've already got the answer.

Anyway, the tower is doing well! It will be very hot when completed!

Address is 959 Eighth Avenue, between 56th and 57th streets. It's near the Time Warner Center too.


ah hem!

I hadn't noticed this tower would be similar to the SwissRe! That's very tall

Stop spamming Jackal, you've already got the answer.

Anyway, the tower is doing well! It will be very hot when completed!

Sorry.... there really was something wrong with my connection. I won't do it again (I hope).

The building Culwulla is showing is fantastic!!!!!!!!!! The one in Sydney..... Also Foster!? He Makes FABULOUS architecture.

Wowwww... Amazing...

Amazing facade:

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image72.jpg
January 31, 2005: Outrigger on 8th Avenue side of Tower

Very a la Swiss Re :yes:
Excellent photo :)

That glass is HOT

just TO DIE FOR!

i took one of this tower two weeks back

http://img237.exs.cx/img237/2513/hear8rs.jpg

its certainly an interesting design

It looks much better in real life than in the renderings but that seems to be the case in every building I've seen.

Best tower uc in NY!:uh:

FOSTER AND PARTNERS have don it again. Their ideas are unique.
Have you seen the inside?........''to die for''!

I LOVE that design.

Found at a site called cornershots and posted at WNY:

http://www.cornershots.com/images/topless.jpg

this tower is so gorgeous! :)

can't wait for it being completed

great work with the site pics guys, keep us updated

very nice!

great great tower!!

From Foster and Partners website...

'Topping out' for Foster and Partners designed Hearst Tower, New York

11th February 2005

The Hearst Corporation's 46-storey headquarters office tower was 'topped out' on 11th February in the presence of the Governor of New York State, George E Pataki and New York City Mayor, Michael R Bloomberg. Signifying the placement of the highest steel beam, the structure now rises to its full 597 feet above the existing six-storey Art Deco building. Scheduled for completion in 2006, the tower establishes a creative dialogue between old and new. The new building will provide almost a million square feet of space, enabling one of America's largest publishing companies to consolidate its entire New York City staff in one location and resonating with founder William Randolph Hearst's original vision of a vibrant media hub at Columbus Circle.

The Hearst Corporation's drive to create an improved workplace is articulated by the building's light-filled, environmentally progressive status. Designed to consume significantly less energy than a conventional New York office building, and naturally ventilated for up to 75% of the year, the Hearst Tower is set to become the first commercial office building in New York City to achieve a 'Gold Rating' under the US Green Buildings Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Program.

Lord Foster noted, "The Hearst tower expresses its own time with distinction, yet respects and strengthens the existing six-story historical structure. The tower is lifted clear of its historic base, linked on the outside only by columns and glazing, which are set back from the edges of the site. The transparent connection floods the spaces below with natural light and encourages the impression of the new floating above the old."

The main spatial event is the vast internal plaza - an 'urban room' - that occupies the entire floor plate within the shell of the historic base. Functioning like a bustling town square, this dramatic space provides access to all parts of the building. It incorporates the elevator lobby, the Hearst cafeteria and auditorium and mezzanine levels for meetings and special functions. Linked on the outside by a transparent skirt of glass, which floods the spaces below with natural light, there is the impression of the tower floating weightlessly above the base.

Unlike a conventionally framed structure, the tower has a triangulated form. This is not only a highly efficient solution, using 21% less steel than a traditionally framed building, it is also structurally more resilient; and of the 10,480 tonnes of steel used for the structure, 90% is recycled material. With its corners peeled back between the diagonals, the structure has the effect of emphasising the tower's vertical proportions and creating a distinctive facetted silhouette on the skyline.

For further information please contact: Bud Perrone at Rubenstein Communications

bperrone@rubenstein.com Tel +001 212 843806

That's an excellent night shot savethewtc. Thanks for posting it. ;)

Hearst Tower is going to be another great iconic landmark.

Ahh man, topped out too soon. The growth was way quicker than I expected.

took these today, 2-15-05...its a great bldg

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/5821/dsc026029ul.jpg

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/4182/dsc025771id.jpg

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/6581/dsc025763sf.jpg

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/5579/dsc025737lx.jpg

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/4373/dsc025719jf.jpg

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/3250/dsc025703nr.jpg

http://img60.exs.cx/img60/4734/dsc025693me.jpg

Just keeps getting better and better

Wow, that steel in the middle of the facade (not the edges) actually looks good.

I took this photo last week..I love this tower....:)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/photobubket.jpg

This building is fantastic. It reminds me of those rubix things. Not the cubes the flat things that I can't remember the name of.

Finally Foster's has emerged again in one of the world's greatest skyline.

lol, this is gonna be the Lippo building of NY

Amazing building! Foster did a great job on this one

From the topping out ceremony:

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/InternetSite/images/news/173/hearst7.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/InternetSite/images/news/173/hearst5.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/InternetSite/images/news/173/hearst6.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/InternetSite/images/news/173/hearst3.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/InternetSite/images/news/173/hearst8.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/InternetSite/images/News/173/hearst4.jpg

I like it! The metallic parts look more white then silver. Looks nice. Cant wait to see the finished product.

These photos were taken today 02/20/2005

by me, Carlos :)


This is the view from Central Park....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00025copy.jpg



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00026copy.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00014copyhh.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00015copyll.jpg

This looks taller than I ever expected

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00014copyhh.jpg

THATS A HOT TOWER RIGHT THERE, I LOVE IT.

is hearst tower going to be as tall as the gray tower on it's side...
how many floors is the gray one btw...? i like it...
nice pics from central park... is going fast this tower i love it...

Nice photos TowersNYC. That is the perspective I've been waiting for. :okay:

is hearst tower going to be as tall as the gray tower on it's side...
how many floors is the gray one btw...? i like it...
nice pics from central park... is going fast this tower i love it...

The gray one is 56 floors and 628 ft/191 m and the Hearst Tower is 597 ft/182 m so it won't be as tall.

It seems the tower is near a traffic circle in one of those photos. Is that Columbus Circle?

shown here
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00014copyhh.jpg

Correct.

Two days ago
http://img20.exs.cx/img20/6003/dscf0013hearsttowerucfeb05toth.jpg

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/7541/dscf0014hearsttowerucfeb05lowe.jpg

http://img20.exs.cx/img20/8466/dscf0015hearsttowerucfeb05look.jpg

http://img83.exs.cx/img83/2251/dscf0057shilouettehearsttoweru.jpg

Ohhh! The silver makes it all shiny. I still cant decide if I like it though.

The gray one is 56 floors and 628 ft/191 m and the Hearst Tower is 597 ft/182 m so it won't be as tall.

thanks for that savethewtc is a good height for both towers...
and great update Lecom, nice pix!!
i love the silver, is gonna look excelent!

it looks even better than on the renderings!!!
Well done NY! :eek2:

Here's an update from the official site...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image74.jpg
February 24, 2005: View of The Hearst Tower from The Gates in Central Park.

it looks even better than on the renderings!!!
Well done NY! :eek2:

I agree. That always seems to be the case in my opinion.

Looks way better than the rendering, yes. Nice work by Foster in NY.

Much needed update...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image75.jpg
March 25, 2004: View of top floor of Hearst Tower.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image76.jpg
March 25, 2004: Progress to date.

Huge! Looks really cool already

:eek2: HOT!!!!!

good to see a tower going up in the US that has nothing to do with trump.

Cant believe ive never seen this thread, love this tower already!

Barsby, there are scores of Trump-less towers going up in the city right now: NYTimes, Bank of America, Bloomberg most notably.

God it is just too too cool.
Go Foster!

foster =british = cool

Do you think you could build some more in your home country now matey boy !


Beautiful tower !

its awesome...damn how i wish foster did something here

wow what an amazing tower! I love the designs, very cool!

Has to be the best looking tower built in NY in the last few years (which includes some stiff competition, especially Condé Nast and Bloomberg). Norman Foster rocks: the interiors of the building are going to look as amazing as the exterior, particularly the huge plaza in the bottom of the old Hearst Building, if the rendering on page 1 of the thread is anything to go by.

This was always going to be a great building. After all, it's a Foster...

but

Why are some of you saying how big or "huuuuuuuuuge" it looks? Sure it's tall, but quite in the mid-range field really.

here are my photos taken today 04/10/2005

all photos by me Carlos


Old meets New

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/ht2.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/ht1.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/ht3.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/ht8.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/ht5.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/ht6.jpg

Great shots

This looks taller than I ever expected

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00014copyhh.jpg

Just what I've been thinking. Seems to be the case with all Central Park shots so far.

very nice pix from the base!!
this tower is going to rock!!

Compares to the Rendering, facade looks very different.

http://www.permasteelisausa.com/image/exteriors/Hearst2.jpg

Gotta say I like it! I wasnt sure before but now I am. Looks good!

I love this tower, sleek and elegant and in ways simple (elegant in it's simplicity).

in what way is it different from the rendering??

think this is my favourite tower u/c anywhere in the world right now, the facade looks gorgeous especially now a few more of the silver bits have been added, cant wait to see this finished.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/ht5.jpg
oh Carlos those are amazing pics! thank you so much.

Definitely one of the most charismatic buildings to go up(and not just in new york!) It looks awsome.

Wow!!!! Tower looks nice!
Chad, maybe the glass in the render was too reflective and made like a surface, not as different glasses making the facade.

womg finally a tower that looks better than the render, love it !!

A true tradition of Foster's design.

Great tower, and yes, it actually looks better than the renders!

Update...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image77.jpg
April 6, 2005: View of the Hearst Tower from Eighth Avenue.

^looks outstanding!! so does the bldg! lol
checkout Fosters latest in Sydney- the 240m 126 phillips tower.

http://img130.echo.cx/img130/5865/bttopcloseup5gr.jpg

http://img70.exs.cx/img70/1651/img23131cd.jpg

Yes, it definitely looks better than the rendering.

Another one...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image78.jpg
April 12, 2005: Louvers installed on mechanical floors.

you should post your pix a bit bigger!!!
that last one is really cool, tanx!!!

great updates, the tower looking good

the hearst building seem to be progressing well. Not sure how much i like the colour of the glazing?

The Philips Tower in Sydney is horrible- What is the point of the 50 m. antenna's?-well besides adding those added inches for more status... garbage!!


p5

It would be good to see how the growing tower sits on the skyline. Anyone got any pics from around mile away?

foster =british = cool

Do you think you could build some more in your home country now matey boy !


Beautiful tower !

Still I would rather him get his ass back over here and build us a few more stunning scrapers!

Phillips tower also rocks!

Pretty good, pretty neat, pretty good!

AMAZING BUILDING! SO BEAUTIFUL...I HAVEN'T SEEN IN AWHILE...GONNA STOP BY AND CHECK IT OUT.

Took these on May 2, 2005. Too bad the weather was bad, gray sky and some rain in and out...

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/3222/24042005_0502Image0070.JPG

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/3222/24042005_0502Image0071.JPG

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/3222/24042005_0502Image0072.JPG

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/3222/24042005_0502Image0074.JPG

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/3222/24042005_0502Image0075.JPG

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/3222/24042005_0502Image0076.JPG

wooow!! that was what i was talking about!!! thanx savethewtc!!! great pix!!!!!!
tower is looking better and better!!!

this is absolutely stunning! :eek:,i wonder though ,when will foster get bored with all that triangle scheme ;)...when it comes to skyscrapers by F&P,we can almost be sure of some combinations with triangles

I wonder why they didn't let foster design the WTC, unless he submitted a proposal and lost cause it wasn't great.

^it was awesome, we all wanted it to be picked, but liebskind won and all has gone tits up since

Building is looking really amazing!

GO FOSTER.............
Cool tower.........

thats beautiful

LATEST LOOK, PHOTOS TAKEN TODAY BY ME, ON MOTHERS DAY 05/08/05


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00011.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00013.jpg



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00012.jpg



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00014.jpg

Funny thing is the mecanical floors at Hearst tower don't seem to blend with the rest of the tower......but they are needed......

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/d22444c8.jpg


Time Warner has the ventilation floors, but they are located at the base of the tower and in the back!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/feb04054copy.jpg

nice update! thanx...
so those floors are going to look like that???
i dont like that!

YES ! better get used to them

might be better with the metal stripe throught the middle, but it does look odd right now

They should try to find a way to integrate them in the desing! I think that that happens because architects doesn't think about them untill they are making the final blueprints and they calculate the structure.

gosh that is such a great tower, it fits so well in NYC

It is good to see a somewhat New stylish building coming up in Manhattan, otherwise I would feel everything is the same here in the city where I live...
I LOVE NY ;-)

My American friends actually are coming to Shanghai, yes. It is exciting to be a part of the great change, all in all, you cannot have houses everywhere, correct?

Cheers, NYC and Shanghai ^_^

Here's an update...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image79.jpg
April 26, 2005: The second and last crane is lowered by the derek.

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image80.jpg
May 11, 2005: Window washing apparatus sits poised to operate on Tower roof.

:) It's looking amazing!

extremely nice. Can't say it beats Swiss Re though, I may be biased, but Swiss Re is much more of a revolution that has sparked interest in scrapers over here. When you get to see it everyday, you'll understand ;)

This building is so beautiful. I walked by it the other night and was amazed. Its glass is among the best that I have ever seen.

Wow this building is looking awesome! Every bit as good as the renders.

LATEST LOOK, TODAY IS MAY 28, 2005

NOT MUCH PROGRESS SINCE I LAST SAW IT A FEW WEEKS AGO.....



SEEMS TO BE WEDGED !!!! :nuts:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/d1328b6b.jpg





http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/81a77945.jpg

It's almost there. I for one, can't wait to see the exterior completed.

Here's and updated pic of the Hearst Tower that I found on the web.

Originally posted by macreator from Wired NY
http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=928

LATEST LOOK, TODAY IS MAY 28, 2005

NOT MUCH PROGRESS SINCE I LAST SAW IT A FEW WEEKS AGO.....



SEEMS TO BE WEDGED !!!! :nuts:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/d1328b6b.jpg





http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/81a77945.jpg
GREAT shots!

GREAT TOWER :cheers: but it should be taller :sleepy:

BEAUTY!

The building's corner is really nice.

Update...

http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/images/gallery/image81.jpg
June 17, 2005: The Hearst Tower continues to rise.

Looking flippin' great :okay:

Nice building, but it does look like it should be taller. I imagine if this was Hong Kong or Shanghai it would be a thousand footer.

beatiful!!!

lovely updates

Nice building, but it does look like it should be taller. I imagine if this was Hong Kong or Shanghai it would be a thousand footer.

Why would it be? Hearst, despite being one of the world's leading publishers, doesn't need that much space!

this building deserved to be Taller, it would be so mag if a 1000+ footer