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His other plans included a single, very large tower and ten moderately large buildings. [72] He favored the 80-story twin-tower plan, but found that it did not meet the Port Authority's requirements. At the time, it was not considered economical to build an office building with more than 80 floors. [77] [72]
It was initially proposed as a 33-story, 571-foot (174 m) office building, but was later reduced to 27 stories and 392 feet (119 m). [13] The second tower will have 764,000 square feet (71,000 m 2 ) of office space, 13,800 square feet (1,280 m 2 ) of retail and exhibition space on the ground floor, and a childcare center.
In conjunction with the canceled opera house, Hearst originally planned to construct a two-story office and retail building with a 2,500-seat theater designed by Michael Bernstein. [85] This was subsequently changed to a six-story office and theater building, designed by Thomas W. Lamb.
This new building would have had a 34-story base and a 28-story tower, being 909 feet (277 m) tall, with 40 acres (160,000 m 2) of floor area and 3,600 offices. [ 54 ] [ 58 ] [ 59 ] Although bidding for the proposed structure began in December 1908, [ 54 ] Equitable president Paul Morton publicly denied plans for a new structure. [ 60 ]
False front commercial buildings in Greenhorn, Oregon, 1913. Western false front architecture or false front commercial architecture is a type of commercial architecture used in the Old West of the United States. Often used on two-story buildings, the style includes a vertical facade with a square top, often hiding a gable roof.
North Point I (North Point Building) is an unusual office structure with seven levels. Five of the levels are above grade with two below, atop foundation of the former Press building. Its most distinctive features are its large triangular floor plans, which are split by a nine story glass angled atrium with views of Cleveland's lakefront and ...
Numerous other consultants, engineers, and contractors were involved in the building's design and construction. [23] [24] Height comparison to Bank of America Tower (center) The building contains 2.1 million square feet (195,096 m 2) of office space. [26] It has three basements [8] [27] and has 55 above-ground stories.
The first involved the physical design of the building. Numerous plans in the last several years had called for two buildings, one on either side of 10th Street SW. Two or more levels of office space would connect them underground. [49] But the Navy strongly disliked this plan, and demanded that the structure arch over the street. [50]