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Date: 2006
Architect: Foster + Partners
Location: Eighth Avenue; 56th - 57th Street
Photos by Andrew McRae, 2007:
14/11/2008
Hearst Tower wins the 2008 International Highrise Award
Hearst Tower in New York was honoured with the prestigious International Highrise Award today at a ceremony attended by Norman Foster in the Frankfurt Paulskirche. The jury praised the project for defying the “traditional stacking or the repeated extension of the same floor plate”, citing Hearst Tower as a “prototype for future high-rise developments.”
Completed in 2006, the 46-storey Hearst headquarters floats above an existing six-storey Art Deco building and has a progressive environmental strategy – the tower was the first occupied commercial building in New York City to achieve a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold rating.
Lord Foster said:
“I am thrilled that Hearst Tower has been honoured with this prestigious award. It is a mark of an enlightened client and a great city that the tower literally sparkles on the New York skyline today. It represents the realisation of William Randolph Hearst’s original plan for a tower in Manhattan and it has been a privilege to revive this dream with a sustainable new home for the Hearst Corporation.”
Hearst Tower New York architects - Foster + Partners
The International Highrise Award, established in 2003, is bestowed every two years. It is administered by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt and financed by DekaBank. Previous winners are Jean Nouvel’s Torre Agbar in Barcelona and ‘De Hoftoren’ by Kohn Pedersen Fox.
The international jury for this year’s award was chaired by Alejandro Zaera Polo of Foreign Office Architects, London and included: author, Layla Dawson; Suzanne Stephens, Deputy Director of the Architectural Record; Felix Semmelroth, Cultural Mayor of the City of Frankfurt; and Peter Cachola Schmal, Director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum.
Sir Norman Foster's first New York building, completing early 2006
The Hearst Building sits on a building base from 1927-28 by Joseph Urban
Tower images (all below) from Foster & Partners 2006:
The original Hearst Building
Building Detail; view from Central Park; Tower Base; Lobby
External Photos
Hearst Tower Ground Level Plan; Lobby Level Plan; Lobby Section
Lobby; view at night; Richard Long art installation
Hearst Tower Section; Top of Tower
All Tower images from the skyscraper architects, Foster & Partners
Hearst Tower New York Award : RIBA International Award 2007
New York Skyscraper News - Feb 2006:
Norman Foster - Seagram Building
Foster & Partners to design 62 storey New York skyscraper beside Mies van der
Rohe's classic Seagram Building on Lexington Avenue.
Seagram Building
375 Park Avenue, New York
1954-58
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson became an associate for Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building in 1955: he worked on interiors such as the Four Seasons Restaurant.
Sir Norman Foster entered the World Trade Centre Site architecture competition won by Daniel Libeskind.
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Guggenheim Museum
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Freedom Tower - Site of World Trade Center
Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan
2004-
Daniel Libeskind Architects + David Childs of SOM Architects
Controversial towers to replace the New York World Trade Centre skyscrapers lost in 2001. The main Freedom Tower skyscraper by Libeskind was to be a significant number of feet high - 1,776 ft - to mark a key American date in history - United States Year of Independence; the building was largely handed over to architect David Childs.
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