London, GB
Hearst Tower revives a dream from the 1920s, when publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst envisaged Columbus Circle as a new media quarter in Manhattan. Hearst commissioned a six-storey Art Deco block on Eighth Avenue, anticipating that it would eventually form the base for a tower, though no such scheme was ever advanced. Echoing an approach developed in the Reichstag and the Great Court at the British Museum, the challenge in designing such a tower at seventy years remove was to establish a creative dialogue between old and new.
Status: Built
Location: New York, NY, US
Firm Role: Architect
Additional Credits: Collaborating Architect: Adamson Associates
Structural Engineer: The Cantor Seinuk Group
Quantity Surveyor: Turner Construction
M+E Engineer: Flack & Kurtz
Lighting Engineer: George Sexton and Associates
Additional Consultants: Higgins and Quasbarthm, VDA, Cerami, Ira Beer Assocates, Steven Winter Asssociates, Tishman Speyer Properties, Turner Construction
