Reflecting this efficiency, Hearst Tower required only 10,480 tons of structural steel—about 20% less than a conventional perimeter frame, a savings of some 2,000 tons. Rahimian concedes that ...

Rising out of an existing six-story Art Deco building designed in 1928 by Joseph Urban, the Hearst Tower has an unusual triangulated ... feature—a unique diagonal grid or “diagrid” structural system ...

That is the saga of T&C’s home, the Hearst Tower, born in 1927 as the International ... who had long been inclined to express his aspirations in structural form and who wanted this new building ...

More than it needs Okay, back to Hearst. First of all, the massive exterior truss looks too big and strong to be structuring a tower that’s only 40 stories tall. It looks wasteful. I’m not a ...

Architecture critic Paul Goldberger calls the new Hearst ... tower," Foster says, "especially from a distance." Installing the cladding required a custom-built, double-tier monorail scaffold ...

The new Hearst Tower, PM's home as of late June ... The skyscraper is a funky glass diagrid system that involves no vertical exterior beams, which creates what the architects call "birds' mouths ...

That is the saga of T&C’s home, the Hearst Tower, born in 1927 as the International ... who had long been inclined to express his aspirations in structural form and who wanted this new building ...