Posted May 24, 2010, 1:45 PM
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...toWhatsNewsTop
One Bryant Park Banks on Many Shapes
By ANTON TROIANOVSKI
MAY 24, 2010
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The skyscraper at One Bryant Park, which had its grand opening last week, is one of the most significant additions to the New York City skyline in years.
Bank of America, the anchor tenant, "wanted an iconic form," according to Serge Appel, who led the Cook+Fox design team behind the glass-walled building. The tower's asymmetrical, hard-edge top forms a "more modern interpretation of the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building," he says.
From its perch on the northwest corner of Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street, the Bank of America tower straddles three distinct neighborhoods—Times Square, the corporate canyon of Sixth Avenue and Bryant Park.
That's why the tower shifts shapes depending on how you approach it. Viewed at street level from the north, the bamboo lining the underside of the cantilever suspended over the sidewalk echoes the wooded park diagonally opposite. Viewed from the south, the imposing facade, with one edge sliced off to create a diagonal plane that faces the park, serves as a gateway to the corporate corridor along Sixth Avenue.
Pedestrians approaching on 43rd Street from Times Square, meanwhile, are greeted by the facade of a Broadway theater, framed by the One Bryant Park curtain wall, complete with a flashy billboard on top.
Much has been made of the building's environmental efforts. Mr. Appel said that designers even tried to use recycled leather to line part of the lobby wall. They wound up using non-recycled leather, but Mr. Appel notes that cows are a renewable resource.
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