Archinect - News 2024-12-22T13:19:54-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/118490837/take-a-drone-tour-of-nyc-s-hearst-tower-with-norman-foster Take a Drone Tour of NYC's Hearst Tower with Norman Foster Diane Pham 2015-01-16T11:46:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wj/wjdhx5tjlnggg0cy.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In 2006, the doors of the Hearst Tower were swung open for business. The design of starchitect Norman Foster, the building was one of the most cutting-edge of its time, lauded for its diagrid form, its green construction, and the then-radical approach of marrying the old with the new... Now, a decade later, Foster has returned to the Hearst Tower to mark its anniversary and reflect on his creation.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html> https://archinect.com/news/article/75123810/two-scaffold-maintenance-workers-rescued-at-the-hearst-tower Two scaffold-maintenance workers rescued at the Hearst Tower Archinect 2013-06-12T18:57:00-04:00 >2013-06-18T22:37:37-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/03/03712c27448a68a479ca2d8295875d6e?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The Hearst Tower scaffold, in short, can fold around its center, allowing it to conform to the building&rsquo;s angled windows. (A failure in this folding mechanism may be what trapped the men: NBC is reporting that the motor suffered a power failure.)</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>