New York Times Tower

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Construction Financing Lines Up for NYT Tower

By Barbara Jarvie NEW YORK CITY-Total construction loan financing in the amount of $322.5 million has been put in place for the development of the 1.7-million-sf New York Times Co. building at 620 Eighth Ave. Just before the year end, Hypo Real Estate Capital Corp., the New York-based subsidia...
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The New York Times Building is a skyscraper on the west side of Midtown Manhattan that was completed in 2007. Its chief tenant is The New York Times Company, publisher of the The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the International Herald Tribune, as well as other regional papers. Construction was a joint venture of The Times Company, Forest City Ratner Companies—the Cleveland-based real estate firm redeveloping the Brooklyn Atlantic rail yards—and ING Real Estate.

The tower was designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FXFOWLE Architects, with Gensler providing interior design.

The tower rises 748 feet (228 m) from the street to its roof, with the exterior curtain wall extending 92 feet (28 m) higher to 840 feet (256 m), and a mast rising to 1,046 feet (319 m). As of 2008, the building is tied with the Chrysler Building as the third tallest building in New York and the seventh tallest in the United States.
The steel-framed building, cruciform in plan, utilizes a screen of 1 5⁄8" (41.3 mm) ceramic rods mounted on the exterior of the glass curtain wall on the east, west and south facades. The rod spacing increases from the base to the top, providing greater transparency as the building rises. The steel framing and bracing is exposed at the four corner "notches" of the building.

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