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95-532: The Hearst Tower is a building at the southwest corner of 57th Street and Eighth Avenue , near Columbus Circle , in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City , United States. It is the world headquarters of media conglomerate Hearst Communications , housing many of the firm's publications and communications companies. The Hearst Tower consists of two sections, with a total height of 597 feet (182 m) and 46 stories. The six lowest stories form
190-467: A 200-by-200-foot site along Eighth Avenue from 56th to 57th Street, near the 57th Street artistic hub. That April, he acquired the property title for the site. Hearst gradually acquired large areas of land around the intersection of Eighth Avenue and 57th Street, though none of the other sites were developed. Metropolitan Opera director Otto Hermann Kahn had begun planning a new opera house to replace an existing building at 39th Street and Broadway at
285-554: A 600-seat secondary auditorium in the basement and a planned 1929 completion date. The Hearst Corporation acquired the land under the building in 1930 for $ 2.25 million or $ 2.5 million. With the onset of the Great Depression shortly after the Hearst Magazine Building's completion, planning for its upper stories stalled for over a decade. The New York Evening Journal , one of Hearst's newspapers, transferred ownership of
380-487: A footprint of 160 by 120 feet (49 by 37 m), with the longer dimension extending from east to west. The setbacks above the sixth floor contain a skylight 40 feet (12 m) wide. The Hearst Tower has 856,000 square feet (79,500 m) of office space. According to the New York City Department of City Planning , the building has a gross floor area of 703,796 square feet (65,384.8 m). The tower received
475-588: A glass-and-metal facade arranged as a diagrid , or diagonal grid, which doubles as its structural system. The original office space in the Hearst Magazine Building was replaced with an atrium during the Hearst Tower's construction. The tower is certified as a green building as part of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED ) program. Hearst Magazine Building developer William Randolph Hearst acquired
570-794: A jurisdiction where it is less easily forfeited . Many of the apartments are only sporadically occupied, functioning as pied-à-terres or real-estate based safe deposit boxes for valuables. The ultra-luxury building boom in the area predates the term "Billionaires' Row". Deutsche Bank Center , built in 2003, is at the southwest corner of Central Park. A majority of its tenants bought their condos anonymously (through shell companies and trusts ); at least 17 of these have been identified as billionaires. 15 Central Park West (CPW), two blocks east, contains units that have been purchased by billionaires Sara Blakely , Lloyd Blankfein , Omid Kordestani , Daniel Loeb , Daniel Och , Eyal Ofer , Pan Shiyi , Sandy Weill , Jerry Yang and Zhang Xin . Before
665-423: A large archway flanked by a pair of smaller, rectangular doorways. The archway has gray granite panels at its base and voussoirs and a beveled keystone at its top, overlapping with a balcony. The barrel-vaulted vestibule inside the archway contains embossed octagonal coffers . The far western end of the vestibule has an entrance with a bronze frame and four glass doors beneath a bronze-and-glass transom . There
760-415: A role. This has weakened the market for the highest-end units, with some declaring that the "Eight Digit Boom" on Billionaires' Row has ended. In the face of this soft market, at least one project in the area ( 1 Park Lane ) has been put on hold. The first supertall building to be built in the neighborhood was One57 , a 1,004-foot (306 m) apartment building between Sixth and Seventh Avenues that
855-457: A six-story office and theater building, designed by Thomas W. Lamb . Hearst's magazines were slated to be published three blocks west, on a block bounded by 11th and 12th Avenues between 54th and 55th Streets. The 11th Avenue site was abandoned by August 1926 and Hearst had replaced Lamb, hiring Urban to design a magazine headquarters for the Eighth Avenue site. The proposed magazine headquarters
950-502: A skyscraper for the Calvary Baptist Church was erected at 123 West 57th Street between 1929 and 1930. On East 57th Street, several luxury apartment buildings were also developed. Starting in the 2010s, quite a few very tall ultra-luxury residential buildings have been constructed or proposed on the stretch of West 57th Street between Eighth and Park Avenues, which is largely within two blocks of Central Park. The first of these
1045-610: A small city park overlooking the East River just east of Sutton Place. The street was designated by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 that established the Manhattan street grid as one of 15 east-west streets that would be 100 feet (30 m) in width (while other streets were designated as 60 feet (18 m) in width). Throughout its history, 57th Street has contained high-end housing and retail, as well as artistic uses. 57th Street
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#17328443918881140-530: A tower atop the Hearst Magazine Building in the early 1980s. A restoration of the building had then been recently completed. During much of that decade, the Hearst Corporation rapidly acquired media companies such as magazines, publishers, and television stations. In 1982, the LPC began considering city-landmark designation for the Hearst Magazine Building. Further discussions of landmark status took place in 1987, and
1235-405: A zoning bonus which enabled its maximum floor area to be expanded by six floors or 120,000 square feet (11,000 m), a twenty-percent increase from the previous maximum allowed floor area of 600,000 square feet (56,000 m). The Hearst Corporation agreed to improve access to the subway station underneath in return, adding three elevators and reconfiguring the station's circulation areas. Without
1330-514: Is a nearly-square lot covering 40,166 square feet (3,731.5 m) and measuring 200 by 200.83 feet (60.96 by 61.21 m). Entrances to the New York City Subway 's 59th Street–Columbus Circle station are in the base of the tower. The Hearst Tower, and the Hearst Magazine Building at its base, are near a former artistic hub around a two-block section of West 57th Street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway . The hub had been developed during
1425-435: Is a subway entrance on the right (north) side of the Eighth Avenue entrance vestibule. On either side of the entrance arch, the Eighth Avenue elevation contains glass and metal storefronts at ground level and seven sash windows on the second story. On 57th Street, a former secondary entrance was altered to create a storefront topped by a window. There is another subway entrance on the left of the original doorway. The remainder of
1520-513: Is braced by the service core). Since the layer of bedrock under the Hearst Tower varies in depth, the tower's foundation was built with two methods. Bedrock is only a few feet under half of the basement, and spread footings were used. Under the other half of the basement, where bedrock is a maximum of 30 feet (9.1 m) down, twenty-one caissons were installed. The Hearst Magazine Building initially contained office space with 11-foot (3.4 m) ceilings. The original building's office space
1615-514: Is complemented by Riverlines, a 70-foot-tall (21 m) fresco by Richard Long . The atrium has two mezzanines; one contains a 380-seat cafeteria, and the other houses an exhibition area. The cafeteria, Cafe 57, is used by Hearst employees and visitors. The north side of the atrium has a screening room. Two storefronts are at ground level under the atrium: an anchor space with about 12,000 square feet (1,100 m), and another space with about 2,500 square feet (230 m). The tower begins with
1710-579: Is home to the city-owned performance venue Carnegie Hall . The mid-block between Seventh and Sixth Avenues is a terminus of a north-south pedestrian avenue named Sixth and a Half Avenue . East of Sixth Avenue, the street is home to numerous high-end retail establishments including the Tiffany & Co. flagship store and the Bergdorf Goodman Building . The stores located at 57th Street's intersections with Fifth and Madison Avenues occupy some of
1805-549: Is notable for prestigious art galleries, restaurants and up-market shops. The first block of 57th Street, at its western end at Twelfth Avenue near the Hudson River waterfront, is home to the VIA 57 West building, designed in the form of a triangular pyramid by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels . From there to Tenth Avenue are low-rise industrial properties, several automobile dealerships, and small-scale residential buildings. Much of
1900-631: Is said to have bought four floors at 220 Central Park South for $ 238 million, breaking One57's record for the most expensive home sold in New York City and setting a new record for the most expensive home sold in the United States. Also at 220 CPS, several units were combined into a four-story mansion costing $ 250 million. These projects have highlighted the controversial economic conditions and zoning policies that have encouraged these buildings, and concerns have been raised about their effects have on
1995-411: The N , Q , R , and W trains. The following bus routes serve 57th Street: The following high-end stores can be found between Sixth Avenue and Park Avenue : Billionaires%27 Row Billionaires' Row is a group of ultra-luxury residential skyscrapers , and the neighborhood surrounding them, near the southern end of Central Park in
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#17328443918882090-574: The Hearst Magazine Building (also known as the International Magazine Building ), designed by Joseph Urban and George B. Post & Sons, which was completed in 1928. Above it is the Hearst Tower addition, designed by Norman Foster and finished in 2006. The building's main entrance is on Eighth Avenue. The original structure is clad with stone and contains six pylons with sculptural groups. The tower section above has
2185-473: The Independent Subway System 's Eighth Avenue Line and zoning regulations which permitted skyscrapers along that section of Eighth Avenue. By January 1928, the Hearst Magazine Building was nearly completed, having cost $ 2 million (equivalent to $ 28 million in 2023). Urban and Post drew up plans for a street-level 1,000-seat concert hall shortly after the Hearst Magazine Building was finished, with
2280-508: The Midtown section of Manhattan in New York City . Several of these buildings are in the supertall category—taller than 1,000 feet (300 m)—and, as of 2024, include the world's three tallest residential buildings . Since several of these pencil towers are on or near 57th Street , the term can refer to this street as well. The neighborhood has some of the most expensive residences in
2375-609: The 1890s, with the development of Carnegie Hall . The section between Fifth and Eighth Avenues is two blocks south of Central Park . Since the early 21st century, the portion of the street south of Central Park has formed part of Billionaires' Row , which contains luxury residential skyscrapers such as 111 West 57th Street , One57 , and the Central Park Tower . Over its two-mile (3 km) length, 57th Street passes through several distinct neighborhoods with differing mixes of commercial, retail, and residential uses. 57th Street
2470-497: The 21st century, the arts hub had largely been replaced with Billionaires' Row , a series of luxury skyscrapers around the southern end of Central Park . Immediately prior to the construction of the Hearst Magazine Building in the 1920s, the site was referred to as the Hegeman site. Sixteen people had owned the land, which was largely vacant except for an open-air movie theater and some stores. The original six-story structure, known as
2565-457: The 56th Street facade are grouped into six pairs, separated by pilasters which were designed to emphasize the upper, never-built stories. A clerestory wraps around the seventh through tenth floors atop the base, structurally separating the tower from the base. The tower facade has a triangular framing pattern known as a diagrid (short for "diagonal grid") above the tenth floor, which is the tower's structural support system. The diagrid divides
2660-404: The Eighth Avenue and 57th Street facades are identical, with two pylons each. The left pylon on both entrances contains sculpture groups depicting comedy and tragedy, and the right pylon contains sculptures representing music and art. Similar pylons rise in front of the northeast and southeast corners of the base. The northeast-corner pylon contains a group representing printing and the sciences, and
2755-521: The Gothic palaces of railroad kings". The area to the west contained townhouses, some of which were known as New York City's "choicest" residences. On East 57th Street, there were homes interspersed with structures built for the arts. An artistic hub developed around the two blocks of West 57th Street from Sixth Avenue to Broadway during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, following the opening of Carnegie Hall in 1891. Artists' studio apartments, such as
2850-634: The Hearst Magazine Building or the International Magazine Building, was designed by architect Joseph Urban and the architectural firm George B. Post & Sons. Completed in 1928 and intended as the base of a future tower, the Hearst Magazine Building was designed in early Art Deco style. Henry Kreis designed six sculpture groups at the third story. The Hearst Magazine Building is the only survivor of an unbuilt entertainment complex which its developer, Hearst Communications founder William Randolph Hearst , envisioned for Columbus Circle in
2945-529: The Hearst Magazine Building was little more than a standard Art Deco building. Christopher Gray , another Times reporter, described the structure as having a funereal quality. William Randolph Hearst left little indication of what he thought the Hearst Magazine Building represented. Critics noted the tower's contrast with the older base. The architectural critics Justin Davidson and Edwin Heathcote both described
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3040-660: The Hearst Tower among the top 150 buildings in the United States. The tower received a British Construction Industry Award in 2007, and it was a runner-up for the Royal Institute of British Architects ' Lubetkin Prize. The Hearst Tower received the 10-Year Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in 2016, which cited the tower's "structural complexity" as a consideration in its value and performance. Since 2018, Hearst Television stations have used on-screen graphics based on
3135-461: The Hearst Tower began on April 30, 2003, and the Hearst Magazine Building's interior was demolished in the middle of that year. The original framework was left intact until new steel beams were installed, and the landmark facade was preserved and cleaned for $ 6 million. Steel construction began in March 2004. The floor slabs were installed at an average rate of one floor every four days, and the curtain wall
3230-410: The LPC granted landmark status to the building's facade on February 16, 1988. The designation meant that the LPC had to approve any proposed changes to the Hearst Magazine Building exterior. Beyer Blinder Belle proposed a 34-story green-glass tower during the late 1980s, which did not come to fruition. The Hearst Magazine Building was too small to house all the Hearst Corporation divisions, although it
3325-420: The LPC in 1982, said that the structure was designed in "an unusual style, by an unusual (and unusually talented) designer". Architectural writer Eric Nash wrote in 1999 that the Hearst Magazine Building was a vestige of the original tower that had been planned on the site. Two years later, Herbert Muschamp of The New York Times wrote that, despite Urban's experience with both theatrical design and architecture,
3420-549: The New York City Department of Buildings the following year, when the tower was estimated to cost $ 1.3 million. The additional stories were never completed; a New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) report about the building did not specify a reason for this. The Hearst Magazine Building retained most of its original architecture throughout the 20th century, though the ground-level storefronts were replaced in 1970. The Hearst Corporation again began planning
3515-582: The New York Times Building, led one architect to say: "My guess is Hearst wanted to outdo the Times ." Despite the September 11 attacks later that year, the Hearst Corporation decided to proceed with the project. Foster said that the board felt that "If we don't do anything, [the terrorists] have won". Following the attacks, Foster and Hearst decided to restrict visitor access to part of the atrium and relocate
3610-576: The Rembrandt at 152 West 57th Street and the Sherwood Studios at 58 West 57th Street, both since demolished, were developed on the south side of the street to take advantage of light from the north, while the Osborne Apartments were built diagonally across Carnegie Hall to provide soundproof residences for musicians. On the south side of the street, other artists' studio apartments were erected in
3705-425: The basement collects rainwater from the building's roof, some of which is pumped through the lobby's waterfall. The furniture and lights were designed to be energy-efficient. Two executive stories have daylight dimming systems, which dim when there is sunlight; the other office stories have daylight switching systems, which turn off when there is sunlight. About 85 percent of the material from the old building's interior
3800-802: The beams as running at a 65-degree angle. The structural system, similar to the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt and 30 St Mary Axe in London, was developed in conjunction with Ysrael Seinuk . The triangles in the diagrid are prefabricated panels, which were manufactured by the Cives Steel Company in New York and Virginia. Each of the triangles is 52 feet (16 m) tall. The diagonal beams are typically 57 feet (17 m) long by 40 feet (12 m) wide. The columns are bolted, rather than welded, to each other at
3895-533: The block to the west. William B. Bishop, a banker and stockbroker, built one of the first, a brownstone at number 10. An 1876 directory gives addresses on the block for bankers John Ellis and John S. Kennedy ; merchants John Auchincloss, Richard R. Haines, Caleb Marsh, and James Talcot; importer Sigmund Housman; lawyers Frederick W. Stevens and Stephen Benton Elkins ; manufacturer Henry T. Sloane ; and politicians Edwin Einstein and Samuel B. H. Vance . At that time,
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3990-464: The block's best-known residents were two branches of the Roosevelt family, one headed by James A. Roosevelt and the other by Theodore Roosevelt Sr., President Theodore Roosevelt 's father. A directory of 1881 adds the names of other prominent citizens including merchant Augustus D. Juilliard , financier William Bayard Cutting , and banker Jacob Schiff . The intersection of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue
4085-515: The block's mansions into upscale retail establishments. A real estate specialist was quoted in 1922 as saying 57th Street was "the greatest street in New York". As the transformation to fashionable shopping district proceeded, reporters began referring to the block as " Rue de la Paix of New York" or "the Rue de la Paix of America". Furthermore, after about 1921, art galleries started to supplant residences on 57th Street, and other art galleries developed on
4180-540: The building to Hearst Magazines in 1937 as part of a reorganization of Hearst Corporation properties. At the time, the building was valued at $ 3.253 million (equivalent to $ 54.19 million in 2023); Hearst owed $ 126 million (equivalent to $ 2.1 billion in 2023) and was selling his holdings. He considered borrowing an additional $ 35.5 million, part of which was to repurchase the Hearst Magazine Building, but ultimately reconsidered. In 1945, George B. Post & Sons prepared plans for nine additional stories. The plans were filed with
4275-407: The building's environmental features, its operating costs were 25 percent lower than those of a typical similar-sized skyscraper. The LEED certification was upgraded to Platinum in 2012. Although the upper floors were quickly occupied, the ground-floor retail space remained vacant for several years; any retail lease had to be approved by several Hearst Corporation officials, and the space's asking price
4370-401: The chamfered corners. With the construction of the Hearst Tower, the base's facade was retrofitted to meet updated city seismic codes. Because the original office space was replaced with an atrium in the Hearst Tower's construction, the windows on the third through sixth stories of the facade now illuminate the atrium. The main entrance, at the center of the Eighth Avenue elevation , contains
4465-616: The core of Midtown Manhattan, the street is dominated by very large commercial and residential towers, such as at the Hearst Tower at the southwest corner of 57th Street and Eighth Avenue. This stretch of 57th Street is home to several large hotels such as Le Parker Meridien and well-known restaurants such as the Russian Tea Room (both between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue ), and to the offices of several magazines including The Economist . The corner of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue
4560-462: The development of other media headquarters nearby, such as the planned New York Times Building and the Condé Nast Building at 4 Times Square . Hearst reportedly met with Polshek Partnership early in the planning process. In February 2001, the Hearst Corporation announced that it had hired Norman Foster to design a tower addition. Foster's selection, which followed his failed bid to design
4655-405: The diagrid of the tower's facade. 57th Street (Manhattan) 57th Street is a broad thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan , one of the major two-way, east-west streets in the borough's grid . As with Manhattan's other “crosstown” streets, it is divided into its east and west sections at Fifth Avenue . The street runs from a small park overlooking the East River in
4750-638: The early 20th century, such as 130 West 57th Street , 140 West 57th Street , and Rodin Studios . West 57th Street also served as the headquarters of organizations such as the Lotos Club , Architectural League of New York , Art Students League of New York , Louis H. Chalif Normal School of Dancing at 165 West 57th Street , and Society of American Artists . Following World War I , the block of 57th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues transitioned from residential to commercial as speculators bought and transformed
4845-420: The early 20th century. The tower, designed by Norman Foster , was completed in 2006—almost eight decades after the base was built. The Hearst Corporation and Tishman Speyer developed the tower; WSP Global was the structural engineer, and Turner Construction was the main contractor. The two sections have a combined height of 597 feet (182 m), with forty-six stories above ground. Its base occupies nearly
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#17328443918884940-502: The east to the West Side Highway along the Hudson River in the west. 57th Street runs through the Midtown Manhattan neighborhoods of Sutton Place , Billionaire's Row , and Hell's Kitchen from east to west. 57th Street was created according to the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 and was developed as a mainly residential street in the mid-19th century. The central portion of 57th Street was developed as an artistic hub starting in
5035-421: The expected number of elevators for a building of its size. A white-brick penthouse was completed above the sixth story for future expansion of the elevators. The Hearst Magazine Building's original framework was removed when the Hearst Tower was built in the 2000s. Its structure was hollowed out for the atrium of the expanded building, and new columns were installed behind the facade. "Mega columns" extend down from
5130-459: The facade of the original building as a city landmark in 1988. After Hearst Communications considered expanding the structure again during the 1980s, the tower stories were developed in the first decade of the 21st century. The Hearst Tower is on the border of the Hell's Kitchen and Midtown Manhattan neighborhoods of New York City , two blocks south of Columbus Circle . It is bounded by 56th Street on
5225-541: The facade's intricate design, the tower's window cleaning rig took three years and $ 3 million to plan. It incorporates "a rectangular steel box the size of a Smart car " on the roof, which hoists a 40-foot (12 m) mast and a hydraulic boom arm. Sixty-seven sensors and switches are housed in the box. A window-cleaning deck hangs from the hydraulic boom arm, supported by six wire-rope strands. The rig, installed in April 2005 on 420 feet (130 m) of elevated steel track circling
5320-423: The ground-story facades at 57th and 56th Streets also contain glass and metal storefronts, with loading docks on the far western section of the 56th Street facade. The base contains six pylons , which are supported by stone pedestals with sculptural groupings on the third story and topped by sculpted urns above the sixth story. The pylons indicate that the building was originally planned as a theater. The centers of
5415-515: The impact these towers will have on the surrounding neighborhoods and the shadows they will cast on Central Park. The 57th Street station on the New York City Subway 's IND Sixth Avenue Line is located at the intersection of 57th Street and Sixth Avenue and is served by the F and <F> train. The 57th Street – Seventh Avenue station on the BMT Broadway Line is located at 57th Street and Seventh Avenue , served by
5510-550: The late 19th and early 20th centuries, after the opening of Carnegie Hall on Seventh Avenue in 1891. The area contained the headquarters of several organizations, such as the American Fine Arts Society , the Lotos Club , and the ASCE Society House . Although the original Hearst Magazine Building was just outside the artistic hub, its proximity to these institutions was a factor in the choice of its location. By
5605-411: The main facade, and the sixth-story windows are flush with the cast-stone facade. The setback and window arrangement are carried around to the eight eastern bays on 56th Street. The two westernmost bays on 57th Street and the twelve westernmost bays on 56th Street are not set back above the second story, and do not contain third-story balustrades. The third-through-fifth story bays on the western section of
5700-437: The mid-1920s, Hearst bought several large plots around the circle for his headquarters. Hearst also believed that Manhattan's Theater District would extend to Columbus Circle and became interested in theater partially because of his mistress, actress Marion Davies . Hearst hired Joseph Urban for several early-20th-century theater projects, and the men became close friends. By early 1924, Hearst had obtained an option to acquire
5795-468: The mid-1920s, two major piano showrooms, Chickering Hall and Steinway Hall, were developed on West 57th Street, as was the Russian Tea Room . Other commercial tenants started moving onto 57th Street, including Henri Bendel in 1912, Bergdorf Goodman in 1928, Bonwit Teller in 1930, FAO Schwarz in 1931, and Tiffany & Co. in 1940. Furthermore, the Hearst Magazine Building was constructed at Eighth Avenue and 57th Street between 1927 and 1928, while
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#17328443918885890-527: The most expensive real estate in the world. Commercial and retail buildings continue to dominate until Third Avenue , where the street rapidly returns to a preponderance of large residential buildings. As it continues from here through its final blocks leading to its terminus at Sutton Place , the street consists of a nearly unbroken stretch of increasingly upscale apartment buildings with doormen, awnings, and small commercial establishments such as drug stores, bank branches, and restaurants. 57th Street ends at
5985-531: The nodes. The diagrid required 10,480 short tons (9,360 long tons; 9,510 t) of structural steel , twenty percent less than what would have normally been required for a building of similar size. More than ninety percent of the steel in the diagrid is recycled. The exterior curtain wall was constructed by Permasteelisa , which mounted 3,200 glass panels on the facade. The panels are typically 13.5 feet (4.1 m) tall by 5 feet (1.5 m) wide, although 625 of them were built to custom specifications. Because of
6080-403: The perimeter of the tower, and the existing frame and new columns are connected with beams at the third and seventh stories. Eight 90-foot-long (27 m) "super-diagonals" slope from the third to the tenth floors. The Hearst Tower has twenty-one elevators. Its stairways and elevators are in a service core along the west side, the only one that does not face a street. The original plan called for
6175-720: The sale of the $ 100 million penthouse at One57, the record for an apartment in New York was $ 88 million paid by Dmitry Rybolovlev for a penthouse at 15 CPW. In 2016, the United States Treasury Department announced it would start identifying and tracking the purchase of multi-million-dollar units, especially those paid for in cash or via shell companies, to cut down on the practice of money laundering. New laws in China restricting capital outflow have also been implemented, and lower oil prices have affected potential Middle Eastern buyers. Uncertainty over Brexit has also played
6270-522: The same time, spending $ 3 million in late 1925 to acquire the site west of Hearst's lot. Plans for the 57th Street opera house were made public in January 1926, but the Met abandoned the plans two years later. In conjunction with the canceled opera house, Hearst originally planned to construct a two-story office and retail building with a 2,500-seat theater designed by Michael Bernstein. This was subsequently changed to
6365-412: The service core to be at the center of the tower, but it was redesigned after the September 11 attacks in 2001 as a security precaution against possible attacks from the street. The offset core also enables the office floors to have an open plan , without interior columns. To compensate for the offset service core and lack of interior columns, the tower's weight is supported by the exterior diagrid (which
6460-445: The site for a theater in the mid-1920s, in the belief that the area would become the city's next large entertainment district, but changed his plans to construct a magazine headquarters there. The original building was developed as the base for a larger tower, which was postponed because of the Great Depression . A subsequent expansion proposal, during the 1940s, also failed. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated
6555-492: The south side of the block between Eleventh and Tenth Avenues is occupied by the CBS Broadcast Center , which is the network's primary East Coast production facility. The street's name was used by CBS to title a newsmagazine program produced by the network in the late 1980s, West 57th . From Tenth Avenue to Eighth Avenue , larger residential buildings appear. Beginning at Eighth Avenue and continuing east through
6650-447: The south, Eighth Avenue on the east, and 57th Street on the north. The building faces Central Park Place on the north, 3 Columbus Circle on the northeast, and Random House Tower on the east. It is one block south of Deutsche Bank Center (formerly Time Warner Center) and 2 Columbus Circle . The base of the Hearst Tower has three street addresses: 951–969 Eighth Avenue, 301–313 West 56th Street, and 302–312 West 57th Street. The site
6745-479: The southeast-corner pylon has a group representing sports and industry. Between the pairs of pylons on Eighth Avenue and on 57th Street, on each of the third through sixth stories, is a tripartite window with fluted stone spandrels . The Eighth Avenue and 57th Street elevations contain seven bays, on either side of the vertical bay, which are set back above the second story. The third through fifth stories of these elevations have sash windows , slightly recessed behind
6840-552: The street in general. For instance, the Fuller Building at 41 East 57th Street has traditionally contained many galleries since its completion in 1929. During the early 20th century, many of the original townhouses on East 57th Street were rebuilt as art galleries. Interior decorators also moved to the area, converting existing houses or erecting new structures such as the Todhunter Building at 119 East 57th Street. During
6935-439: The surrounding neighborhoods and the shadows they cast on Central Park. As of August 2021, an estimated 44% of units in seven buildings considered to be part of Billionaires' Row still hadn't been sold. One of the factors underlying the boom is foreign investment, often in the form of capital flight . Some of these buyers have poured money into high-end New York real estate to dodge taxes , launder money or transfer wealth to
7030-436: The tenth story, which is 110 feet (34 m) high and slightly above the roof of the atrium. Each tower story covers 22,000 square feet (2,000 m), and has 13.5-foot (4.1 m) ceilings. The floors were designed to house many Hearst publications and communications companies, including Cosmopolitan , Esquire , Marie Claire , Harper's Bazaar , Good Housekeeping , and Seventeen . In addition to Hearst offices,
7125-503: The tower as floating above the base due to the sharply differing architectural styles. Nicolai Ouroussoff of The New York Times wrote that the tower "may be the most muscular symbol of corporate self-confidence to rise in New York since the 1960s", even as its design clashed with that of the Hearst Magazine Building. The architectural writer Paul Goldberger regarded the Hearst Tower as the city's best-looking skyscraper since 140 Broadway , which had been completed in 1967. Not all analysis
7220-459: The tower has a staff fitness center on the 14th floor. Executive rooms are on the 44th floor. The tower has several design features intended to meet green building standards as part of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED ) program. The limestone-clad floor slabs of the atrium and office floors contain polyethylene tubes for heated (or cooled) water to regulate temperature and humidity. A 14,000-US-gallon (53,000 L) tank in
7315-438: The tower's core away from the street. Other parts of the design were also reviewed, but the tower's glass facade was retained. Foster's team designed over one hundred plans for the tower. He filed plans for the construction of the Hearst Tower that October, and the LPC approved the tower one month later. Hearst had consulted with the community to allay any concerns, and the approval took less than three hours. The only major opponent
7410-423: The tower's roof, snapped in 2013 and trapped two window cleaners. The Hearst Magazine Building is supported by steel columns on its perimeter. The original framework was intended to support at least seven additional stories. Joseph Urban's original plans for the tower no longer exist but, by some accounts, it would have been up to 20 stories tall. The Hearst Magazine Building had six elevator shafts, double or triple
7505-445: The tower's sides horizontally into four-story segments and diagonally into alternating upright and inverted triangles, which intersect at "nodes" along points of the facade. The arrangement of the diagrid creates chamfered "birds' mouths" at the tower's corners at the 14th, 22nd, 30th, and 38th floors. The New York Times wrote that the beams and "birds' mouths" run at a 75-degree angle to the horizontal floor slabs; another author cites
7600-407: The two lowest stories, three intermediate stories, and a sixth-story attic. The base's northeastern and southeastern corners are chamfered (angled). A balustrade is in front of the third-story windows, supported by a shelf with notches and interrupted by the chamfered corners. A parapet is above the fifth story, except in the bays above the entrance arches on Eighth Avenue and 57th Street and at
7695-416: The whole lot and originally contained floors, arranged in a "U" shape, flanking a courtyard on the west. Along much of the base, the third through sixth stories are slightly set back from the lowest two floors. The original building's roof was 70 feet (21 m) above ground. The upper stories are more deeply set back from the lowest six floors on the north, east, and south sides Each of the upper stories has
7790-426: The world. The top two floors of One57 sold to Michael Dell for $ 100.47 million in 2015, setting a record for the most expensive apartment ever sold in New York. Another bi-level apartment in the building was bought by hedge fund manager Bill Ackman for $ 91.5 million. The top penthouse at 432 Park Avenue went to Saudi retail magnate Fawaz Al Hokair for $ 87.7 million, and hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin
7885-411: The zoning amendment, the Hearst Corporation might have had to pay up to $ 10 million for additional air rights , as the company had already used up all the air rights above the Hearst Magazine Building. The cast-limestone facade of the Hearst Magazine Building, now the base, is a New York City designated landmark with 450,000 square feet (42,000 m) of surface area. It is divided horizontally into
7980-447: Was One57 , a 1,004-foot (306 m) apartment building between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, which was completed in 2014. Due to the often record-breaking prices that have been set for the apartments in these buildings, the press has dubbed this section of 57th Street as "Billionaires' Row". These projects have generated controversy concerning the economic conditions and zoning policies that have encouraged these buildings, as well as
8075-404: Was $ 400 per square foot ($ 4,300/m) per month. The space was not occupied until 2011, when cookware retailer Sur La Table opened a store. Panera Bread leased a ground-level storefront in 2022, intending to open a flagship store; the shop opened that November. Before the tower's construction, the Hearst Magazine Building was considered an indication of unexecuted plans. One observer, writing to
8170-405: Was a skyscraper and Hearst hired George B. Post & Sons, who had experience building skyscrapers. Excavation of the Hearst Magazine Building had begun by June 1927. The section of Eighth Avenue between 42nd and 59th Streets was experiencing rapid development, with surrounding real-estate values increasing 200 percent since the beginning of the 1920s. This was, in part, due to the development of
8265-570: Was further developed in 1879 with the construction of the Cornelius Vanderbilt II House at the northwest corner. The block of West 57th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues was described as being "the very best in the city" by 1885. One contemporary observer described the block's family homes as "first-class dwelling houses". Another called them "the brown-stone mansions of rich brewers, the François Premier chateaux of bankers,
8360-428: Was installed at a rate of one floor every six days. The Hearst Tower was topped out on February 10, 2005. The first employees moved into the tower during the last week of June 2006, but it was not officially completed until that October. The Hearst Tower cost a total of $ 500 million. Shortly after completion, it was the first New York City building to receive a LEED Gold certification for its overall design. Because of
8455-483: Was laid out and opened in 1857. In the early 19th century, there were industrial concerns clustered around either end of 57th Street, near the Hudson and East Rivers. At the time, the surrounding areas were largely undeveloped except for Central Park two blocks to the north. As late as the 1860s, the area east of Central Park was a shantytown with up to 5,000 squatters. The block of the street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
8550-403: Was positive; an Architectural Record writer likened the tower to a misplaced military structure, while Herbert Muschamp called it a "glass square peg in a solid square hole". The Hearst Tower addition received the 2006 Emporis Skyscraper Award as the best skyscraper in the world completed that year. The American Institute of Architects ' 2007 List of America's Favorite Architecture ranked
8645-413: Was recycled for use in the tower's construction. William Randolph Hearst moved to New York City in 1895, and became a successful magazine magnate over the following three decades. Almost immediately after moving to the city, Hearst envisioned the creation of a large Midtown headquarters around Columbus Circle in the belief that the area would become the city's next large entertainment district. From 1895 to
8740-406: Was replaced with a 95-foot-tall (29 m) atrium when the tower was built. The atrium has a volume of 1,700,000 cubic feet (48,000 m). The lobby, accessed by escalators from the Eighth Avenue entrance, is on the third story of the original building. The escalators run through a 27-by-75-foot (8.2 by 22.9 m) waterfall, which uses recycled water from the building's green roof . The waterfall
8835-421: Was still mostly undeveloped and noted for its boulders and deep ravines where squatters lived in shanties. The block between Fifth and Madison Avenues was the first part of 57th Street to see development, when Mary Mason Jones built the "Marble Row" on the eastern side of Fifth Avenue from 57th to 58th Streets between 1868 and 1870. In the mid-1870s, wealthy New Yorkers began to put up large family residences on
8930-522: Was the Historic Districts Council , whose executive director said that the tower "does not respond to, respect, or even speak to its landmark base". The Hearst Tower was the first major skyscraper in Manhattan built after the September 11 attacks. Before the start of construction, Good Housekeeping moved to another Hearst Corporation building, and two thousand employees were relocated. Work on
9025-479: Was the company's headquarters. By the beginning of the 21st century, the building contained the Good Housekeeping offices, corporate offices, and Hearst's media division; the corporation's other magazines were published in several nearby buildings. In 2000, the Hearst Corporation announced plans to consolidate all its divisions by completing its long-delayed tower. Planning for the tower had been fueled in part by
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