New York Times Building

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	New York Times Headquarters (2007)
Designer	Renzo Piano
Location	New York, New York, USA
Date	2004 to 2007
Building Type	Skyscraper
Construction System	steel, aluminum, ceramic, glass
Climate	Mild Temperate
Context	Urban
Architectural Style	High Tech
Street Address	620 8th Ave Walk Score
Notes	with FXFOWLE Architects, PC, New York, New York, USA.

Contents 1 Images 2 Discussion 3 Maps 4 References 5 External Links

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Building Details
Client	New York Times Company
Area	1.6 million square feet (149,000 square meters)
Stories	52
Height	Roof: 745 feet (227 meters) Spire: 1,045 feet (319 meters) Ceramic fins: 800 feet (244 meters)
Program	newspaper headquarters and newsroom; speculative office space; retail; lobby garden; 400-seat auditorium
Awards	Honor Award Recipient, Building Type Awards, Sustainable Design category, 2008. America's Favorite Architecture 2007; Ranked 68 of 150.

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• Daylighting the New York Times Headquarters Building - Lawrence Berkeley Labs, 2007.

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• "Facades by Front", by Elite Kedan, Jon Dreyfous, and Craig Mutter, ArchitectureWeek No. 479, 2010.0616, p D1.1.
• "AIA Honor Awards 2009" by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 414, 2009.0211, pN1.1.
• "Northeastern Building Types 2008", by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 386, 2008.0625, p N1.1
• "Renzo Piano's New York Times Building" by Michael J. Crosbie, ArchitectureWeek No. 376, 2008.0416, pD1.1.
• "Notes from Manhattan: High Line to WTC", by Michael J. Crosbie, ArchitectureWeek No. 531, 2011.0907, p B1.1.
• New York Times Building Official web site