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Foster + Partners' Hearst Tower and Gehry Partners' IAC Building
Author(s) -
Merkel Jayne
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.527
Subject(s) - tower , white (mutation) , ivory tower , art , art history , media studies , visual arts , sociology , engineering , law , political science , civil engineering , chemistry , biochemistry , gene
Abstract The two most interesting, talked about new office buildings in New York both have unique angular profiles and unusual shiny surfaces that have irrevocably changed their neighbourhoods. Jayne Merkel takes a peak at the interiors of Norman Foster's triangulated steel‐and‐glass Hearst Tower and Frank Gehry's curvaceous, white‐glass hulk for the IAC/InterActiveCorp. In so doing she sizes up what effect the exotic exteriors have on the spaces where the editors, writers, designers and media executives work. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.