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Located across the street from New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal and a block west of Times Square, The New York Times Building is a 52-story, 1.7-million SF office building. The New York Times occupies between 600,000 to 800,000 SF, with the balance leased.
The building's exoskeleton utilizes non-fire-protected bracing elements and exposes every structural beam, which allows the building to achieve the lightness and elegance desired by architects Renzo Piano and FXFOWLE. The exposed structural steel provided several challenges for the design team, such as complying with the city's fire and building codes, detailing the steel to achieve the aesthetic elegance, and designing for forces and movements caused by temperature differentials.
Adding to the building's appealing façade are thin, horizontal ceramic tubes placed on a steel framework 18 inches in front of the low-emissivity glass. The glass helps to reduce the heating and cooling usage while the tubes reflect the changing colors of the sky.
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