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[2011] Politique du skyline. Shard et le débat sur les tours à Londres - Métropolitiques
Depuis l’approbation du permis de construire de la Heron Tower en 2001, plus d’une dizaine de tours ont été construites et près d’une cinquantaine sont en passe de transformer radicalement le skyline de la ville, modifiant sa ligne d’horizon chargée d’histoire et de symboles. Ces nouvelles tours sont de puissants leviers de spéculation et de communication pour les promoteurs, les investisseurs et les architectes. Soutenues plus ou moins explicitement par les équipes municipales qui se sont succédées depuis 2000, elles sont aussi des marqueurs du projet politique régional qui entend assumer la stature de Londres, ville globale et moteur de l’économie britannique. Ces nouvelles tours suscitent cependant débats et controverses, qui se cristallisent particulièrement autour de la question du respect du patrimoine bâti et du skyline désiré (Appert 2008).The CBS Building in New York City , also known as Black Rock, is the headquarters of CBS Corporation . The building, opened in 1965, was designed by Eero Saarinen . It is located at 51 West 52nd Street , at the corner of Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas).
CBS Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
8 Spruce Street , originally known as Beekman Tower and currently marketed as New York by Gehry , [ 4 ] is a 76-story skyscraper designed by architect Frank Gehry in the New York City borough of Manhattan at 8 Spruce Street in Lower Manhattan , just south of City Hall Plaza and the Brooklyn Bridge . According to official website, reaching 265 meters (870-feet) high, New York by Gehry is the 11th tallest residential tower in the world and the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere as of date 2011. The tower contains only rental units (898 in total), something of a rarity in New York’s Financial District and somewhat resembles Aqua , a Chicago skyscraper, in height and form. The building was developed by Forest City Ratner, designed by Frank Gehry Architects, WSP Cantor Seinuk Structural Engineers and constructed by Kreisler Borg Florman.
8 Spruce Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New York’s great financial institutions have traditionally seen architecture as a way of attracting notice. In 1960, when the Chase Manhattan Bank built a huge glass skyscraper in lower Manhattan, its name and logo were all over the building, and, just to make sure no one missed the point, it was given the official address of One Chase Manhattan Plaza. Chase was following the example of Bank of the Manhattan Company, which, in 1930, erected a building at 40 Wall Street, then the second-tallest skyscraper in the world, and of Bankers Trust, which was known for its pyramid-topped tower, a couple of blocks away. Goldman Sachs, one of the largest and most profitable financial firms in the world, has a different view of things. Several thousand Goldman employees have just moved into a sleek steel-and-glass headquarters in lower Manhattan that is emphatically not called One Goldman Sachs Plaza.
The new Goldman Sachs building at 200 West Street : The New York
Erecting the tallest building in the world is a pursuit both pointless and exhilarating. Someone will always build a bigger one, but that doesn’t diminish the intense allure of height, which can make a building famous whether or not there is anything else to recommend it. Frank Lloyd Wright, who never much liked cities, understood this perfectly when, in 1956, he unveiled a fantasy known as the Mile High Illinois, a five-hundred-and-twenty-eight-story tower that he proposed for downtown Chicago, overlooking Lake Michigan. An elegant spire, pencil-thin, it was a cavalier dismissal of the gaggle of boxy office buildings that were turning most of America’s urban centers into a blur. Although it was unbuildable, it grabbed more headlines than any real building could have, and it gave the illusion that Wright was in command of a type of building that he had always disdained.
Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building : The New Yor
[2001] Bin Laden's special complaint with the World Trade Center. - By Laurie Kerr - Slate Magazine
Yamasaki received the World Trade Center commission the year after the Dhahran Airport was completed. Yamasaki described its plaza as "a mecca, a great relief from the narrow streets and sidewalks of the surrounding Wall Street area." True to his word, Yamasaki replicated the plan of Mecca's courtyard by creating a vast delineated square, isolated from the city's bustle by low colonnaded structures and capped by two enormous, perfectly square towers—minarets, really.
Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park is a 1,200 ft (366 m) skyscraper in the Midtown district of Manhattan in New York City , in the United States . It is located on Sixth Avenue , between 42nd and 43rd Street, opposite Bryant Park . The US$1 billion project was designed by Cook+Fox Architects to be one of the most efficient and ecologically friendly buildings in the world. It is the second tallest building in New York City , after the Empire State Building , and the fourth tallest building in the United States .
