Hearst Tower
300 W 57th St New York, NY 10019
Materials: glass, limestone, marble, steel, concrete, water?
The building has a huge lobby with escalators and the water feature decoration. The fountain is constructed with multiple casted glass panels. The glass panels and the water feature bring light reflection, which brings beautiful surface. The water feature has a sustainable system that the water is collected from the roof during rainy days. Beside these, the lobby has gigantic steels are leaned on a huge wall in the center of the building. the huge wall is decorated with a art piece by Richard Long.
The lime stone wall has no gap, and the each square piece perfectly attached to each other. Also, the corner of the wall is finished by chamfer that the pieces for the corner are differentiated for the smooth transition. the wall and the marble floor have very smooth transition with similar color, but the wall is matte while the floor is shiny.
Museum of Art & Design
2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019
Materials: steel, concrrete, glass, wood, stone
The building has been renovated, which means that it still has original structures. it still have arch type of column or wall structure inside the building, but the exterior shell is installed with glass (curtain wall). Therefore, from outside of the building, the inside original structure appears through the glass shell. the exterior walls are made of two types of glass that one is ordinary glass and the other is ceramic frit embedded glass. Ceramic frit glass does give some patterns to the glass, and it takes away the transparency of the glass. I think the exterior wall is very interesting, and it clearly tells that it is renovated structure. The interior of the building contained stone floor, which consist with two types of stones. The stones have made patterns. Also, the staircase was interesting because it was mainly supported by multiple steel cables attached on the each side of the staircase.
David Rubenstein Atrium – Lincoln Center
61 W 62nd St, New York, NY 10023
Material: vegetation, felt, stone, glass
Heater
The interior space of this building was interesting because of the vegetation and the felt design on the walls. the two subjects works really well. The felt wall design somewhat reflects the space such as the circular lighting on the ceiling reflects on the felt design on the wall.
The space have unique design of heating system on the wall that is part of the wall design.
David Koch Theater
20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
Material: terrazzo, glass, steel, concrete, brass
The terrazzo floor is the most interesting part of this space. Terrazzo is concrete mixed with other chunk of stuff that it is designable with pigment or the shapes.
The multiple small brass lighting on the ceiling is interesting and it works well with the terrazzo floor.
Alice Tully Hall
70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
Material: wood, felt, marble, glass, steel
The wood panels on the wall is attached with the felt panels. The building has a curtain wall that the interior of the building reflects on the exterior of the building.
