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 Fosterʹs triangulated steel-and-glass Hearst Tower and Frank Gehryʹs 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.
Keywords :
linen finish , shiny white glass , large steel beams , intended to suggest the sails of a ship , energy-efficient , glass-walled loby , natural-wood furniture , tall rear projection screen shows activity on IAC websites around the globe , glass partitions and rectangular open workstations , Studios Architecture , fitness centre , video walls , television station , eight floors of usable office space , elegant detailing , 1 , modern and traditional materials , Green conscious , IAC Building cant glass , 400 sun-blocking MechoShades , triangular forms , three-storey stepped glass wall with water flowing over it , ten-storey building , stainless-steel columns , a laboratory and test Kitchen for Good Housekeeping , forroconcrete interior columns , cold-warping , Hearst Tower 42 -storey tower
