Started in 2000, The New York Times building designed by Renzo Piano, located in times square is now complete. The New York Times has provided an inside look at the 52 story building now that they have moved from their previous location. The building features a combination of glass walls and a protective scrim of ceramic tubes that act as a sunscreen.
The building's lobby was designed around circulation to maintain openness. it features an open atrium of birch trees and moss that is open to the public. The entire level maintains the views to the street with ample use of glass.“Mr. Piano’s building is rooted in a more comforting time: the era of corporate Modernism that reached its apogee in New York in the 1950s and 60s. If he has gently updated that ethos for the Internet age, the building is still more a paean to the past than to the future.”
“The building’s most original feature is a scrim of horizontal ceramic rods that diffuses sunlight and lends the exterior a clean, uniform appearance. For The Times, Mr. Piano spent months adjusting the rods’ color and scale.”
“The architect’s goal is to blur the boundary between inside and out, between the life of the newspaper and the life of the street. The lobby is encased entirely in glass, and its transparency plays delightfully against the muscular steel beams and spandrels that support the soaring tower.”
“People entering the building from Eighth Avenue can glance past rows of elevator banks all the way to the fairy tale atrium garden and beyond, to the plush red interior of TheTimesCenter auditorium. From the auditorium, you gaze back through the trees to the majestic lobby space. In effect, the lobby itself is a continuous public performance. The sense of transparency is reinforced by the people streaming through the lobby.”
All Image courtesy by Renzo Piano
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