Renzo Piano's New York Times Tower will appear at the intersection of 8th Avenue and 42nd Street. Its outer surfaces will be made of glass, on top of them - a network of ceramic tubes. Lightness in this case is not only the basis of the artistic image, but also an element of symbolic meaning. The client, the New York Times, wanted a headquarters that would express the basic principles of this publication: openness, honesty, transparency. Ultra-transparent glass and ceramic screen, which lowers the temperature of the walls heated by the sun and reduces the glare, fully meet the requirements of modern "green" architecture.
Norman Foster's Hearst Media Corporation, which is already under construction at the corner of 8th Avenue and 56th Street, has a completely different spirit. The broken-edge crystal rises directly from a 1928 Art Deco building. The founder of the company, William Randolph Hirst, began construction of the new headquarters in the 1920s, but the Great Depression stopped the process on the sixth floor. Now 42 more floors will be built on top.
