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Old Posted May 1, 2007, 10:01 AM
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I liked former wtc 7 much - don't know why. But this new tower is superb!
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An Open, Sunlit Space at 7 World Trade Center



At far left, James G. Phillips, left, and Luc Massaux of TPG Architecture in the offices of Mansueto Ventures, which the two designed.



The open workspace aims to let in as much natural light as possible.




A small meeting area.




A cafeteria, with a conference room in the background.



By CLAIRE WILSON
May 13, 2007

WHEN Mansueto Ventures bought the magazines Inc. and Fast Company from the German publisher Gruner & Jahr two years ago, it immediately began polishing the two titles. The paper quality was improved, staff changes were made and the editorial content was sharpened, according to Mansueto, the new owner. The company also wanted its new offices in New York to project the same retooled image, by emphasizing that the magazines were no longer part of a huge global stable of mainstream publications on subjects ranging from politics to parenting to decorating.

“We wanted our new space to reflect our new ownership,” said John Koten, the chief executive of Mansueto Ventures. “We wanted something that could communicate that we are a more nimble company and no longer part of a big bureaucracy.” Mansueto Ventures is owned by Joe Mansueto, who also founded Morningstar Inc., the investment research firm. Mr. Mansueto paid $32.5 million for the two magazines.

On April 2, the publishing company and its staff of 190 moved into 40,000 square feet on the 29th floor of 7 World Trade Center. Mansueto had previously been in 39,000 square feet on a floor it had shared with the Meredith Corporation, a publisher of books and magazines like More and Family Circle, at 375 Lexington Avenue at 42nd Street.

Besides the developer, Silverstein Properties, and the offices of its team of architects from various firms that will be designing the buildings at Nos. 2, 3 and 4 World Trade Center, Mansueto is only the third tenant to move into 7 World Trade Center
, which is part of the first phase of construction to be completed around the former site of the twin towers.

The company’s general manager, Kristine Kern, looked at 50 spaces around Manhattan before settling on the downtown site. The new space, according to Mr. Koten, fits in perfectly with the message the company sends its 1.44 million subscribers, the majority of them high-earning male managers and entrepreneurs.

“We are taking the advice we give to our readers, to be ahead of the trend, be pioneering and go where other people are afraid to go,” he said.

James G. Phillips, principal in the New York-based firm TPG Architecture, and Luc Massaux, TPG’s studio design director, designed the space, whose parallelogram shape is dictated by the unusual street pattern in the financial district. The center core construction of the tower, at the foot of Greenwich Street between Barclay and Vesey Streets, is column-free, making the raw floor a blank canvas for architect and tenant. Obtuse and acute angles set it apart from office towers with square or rectangular footprints, Mr. Phillips said.

“It makes the floor plan more dynamic,” he said.

Sweeping 360-degree vistas of New York dominate the space, whose exterior walls are all glass. “The mandate was to do nothing to interfere” with the view, Mr. Phillips said. “Just bring it inside.” Partitions were kept to a minimum to preserve the views and natural light. Seven conference rooms and 35 individual offices around the periphery have glass walls, with sliding glass doors framed with galvanized aluminum. Workstations for interns, which are away from the windows and around the inner core of the building, are equipped with stools to permit the most light and good views.

Mr. Koten wanted to use as few materials as possible and wanted to conserve resources when configuring the new headquarters. Seven World Trade Center is the first New York City office tower to receive a gold rating for environmental sustainability from the United States Green Building Council.

In the Mansueto offices, there is no dry wall, for example, and ceiling tiles are used only in the private offices and conference rooms. Ceilings are raw in the rest of the space and finished only with textured fireproofing materials, while most of the floor is bare concrete coated with an epoxy finish.

There are four communal copying and printing rooms on the floor, eliminating about 40 individual printers that staff members had previously used. That move cut down significantly on the use of ink and toner, according to Ms. Kern, the general manager.

Fewer partitions also create a sense of openness that was critical to the strategy behind the design. According to Mr. Phillips, the layout was meant to engender interaction among staff members. The space is divided into sections for three divisions: one for each of the two magazines and the third for corporate offices. Pale maple work cubicles designed by the Italian company Unifor at the center of each section were given less space in favor of communal areas. Those include conference rooms in a range of sizes — from the principal one that seats 28 to one with a high, colorful Parsons-style table and four aluminum stools.

Further economizing on individual space, employees’ personal gear will be relegated to the 200 high-school-style lockers soon to be installed inside space in the unfinished building core.

“Tremendous emphasis was placed on the sharing of knowledge, rather than on personal territory,” said Mr. Phillips, whose current projects include the New York headquarters for the music publisher EMI and the retail component of the Plaza Hotel. The company also designed the studio for NBC’s “Today” show.

The offices will also feature a high-tech innovation in publishing. Computer monitors show images of page layouts that change as the editors revise them. There are 40 screens on each wall. A third display of eight monitors is to be used as needed for different Web sites, including those of Fast Company and Inc.

As in most modern office renovations, the entire floor has WiFi access so staff members with laptops can move to impromptu meetings in casual seating areas scattered around the offices or in the conference rooms.

The cafeteria is the most popular gathering spot, near the elevators. Also serving as a reception area, it is marked off by a large carpeted circle with modern tables and chairs and a serpentine bench. A cool white marble bar, a wall paneled in dark wood and a wall of banquettes upholstered in deep olive fabric create an unusual counterpoint to the corner conference room, which hangs like a sleek glass box over ground zero and the first few beams of the Freedom Tower.

The space is ultramodern but somewhat retro, Mr. Koten said. It is the feel of the newsrooms in which he started his career and which has been lost since publishing went desktop, the “sense that something was being manufactured here, and that people were creating something,” he said.
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The City's Hottest Event Space? Try 7 World Trade Center

By GABRIELLE BIRKNER
May 14, 2007

Hundreds of gown- and tuxedo-clad partygoers, including Naomi Campbell and Donald Trump Jr., filtered into 7 World Trade Center Friday evening for a dinner and fashion show benefiting the charity Operation Smile. The guests made their way to the 52nd floor, which was painted black and adorned with large color photographs and gray floor-to-ceiling draperies for the occasion.

While the Grand Ballroom at the Plaza Hotel is closed for renovations, the top floors of 7 World Trade Center — a glass office tower rebuilt and reopened less than five years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks reduced the original tower to rubble — are emerging as see-and-be-seen venues for fashion shows, charity lunches, and black-tie galas.

The building's chameleonlike spaces have been transformed into a Miami Beach-style nightclub with clusters of sleek, white couches and light installations for a Calvin Klein fashion show afterparty last fall, and into an urban garden filled with 5,000 red and pink roses for a Valentino fragrance launch in November. Tonight, an ornate runway will wrap around the 50th floor, custom-built for the Christian Dior Resort Fashion Show.


The editor of the event-planning magazine BiZBash, Chad Kaydo, has called 7 World Trade "the space of the year." A full floor there — the top three are the most often used for parties — rents for $25,000 a day, though Silverstein Properties, which owns the tower, has occasionally donated a space to schools and community groups to use for a meeting or a benefit. A fashion house, charity, corporation or school renting — or borrowing — the space is responsible for expenses such as food, beverages, lighting, music, and décor.

"This is a blank canvas, and you can just cater it to whatever you want to do," the events manager for 7 World Trade Center, Rebecca Shalomoff, said. "People say, all the time, ‘No one will ever be able to copy us.'"

Regardless of how the raw, airy spaces are dressed, their biggest draw, many say, is their sweeping 360-degree views of New York City and its surroundings.

The "mesmerizing" views were one of the things that pulled the spiritual leader of the SoHo Synagogue, Rabbi Dovi Scheiner, to the top-floor space, where the synagogue held its June 2006 fund-raising gala, which was attended by about 950 mostly young people. The venue's significance "in terms of the rebirth of downtown, which is what the SoHo Synagogue is all about" was another, Rabbi Scheiner said.

The rabbi, whose synagogue held its benefit at 7 World Trade Center just weeks after the tower reopened, said he was also attracted to the novelty of locale. "So many venues, they're beautiful spaces, but they're overused — everyone already has so many memories associated with them," Rabbi Scheiner said. "We wanted to set the trend instead."
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HSBC might move in at 7 World Trade Center



Larry Silverstein is going for the grand-slam he's patiently awaited ever since his 7 World Trade Center opened two years ago.

The developer and HSBC are inching toward a deal for the banking giant to lease nearly 300,000 square feet on the tower's top seven floors.

But this is fast-track inching.

Although no lease is out, and a term sheet has not even been signed, our downtown mole said "a term sheet is out," meaning the sides are close to agreeing on basic numbers.

They include rent starting at $75 a square foot on the lower-most floors and rising to $85 a square foot on the top two floors (51 and 52). That would be downtown's highest rent, but clearly within HSBC's ability to afford.

Hard negotiating still lies ahead, but we're told the parties are "feeling good" about it.

If a deal is struck, it will be sweet vindication for Silverstein, who could have leased the floors for slightly less but has held out for what he considers their true value.

And if it happens, HSBC will likely sell its building at 452 Fifth Ave., which the bank quietly has had on and off the market and from which employees would move south to 7 WTC.
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i like the new WTC tower and i think its better than the old one.
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Here are some pictures of this beauty I took today! (If anyone still comes in this thread.)



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How come this tower was desighned/proccessed/rebuilt at such an amazingly fast speed compared to the rest of the site?
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How come this tower was desighned/proccessed/rebuilt at such an amazingly fast speed compared to the rest of the site?
It didn't have to go through the political/bureaucratic mess that the other towers did.
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the base of this tower in person, is really cool...
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No one still is on the top.



I'll never like the blood clot thing though.
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any night shots?
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7 WTC was a location for a Crest whitestrips commercial, look closely in the back ground and you see that building beside the Woolworth and abit of the Wooly.
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Yea it is kind of bland, like the previous design better.
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Yea it is kind of bland, like the previous design better.
You have to see this one to understand it. The glass is the best ever. The massing is incredible. When you walk up Greenwich street and see its monolithic mass of gorgeous metal, juxtaposed against the inhuman monster of industry that it is, the moment is beautiful, like nothing you have ever seen. I have no doubt that few will agree with me, but although not the most beautiful, this one is certainly the most impacting. Just the fact that it is so relaxed, comfortable, and nonchalant in its own immensity, sheathed in a skin of pure resplendent perfection makes it, in my opinion, the best building of the last 20 years built anywhere in the world.
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Yeah it really is all about the glass. The glass is definitely some of the best I have ever seen, anywhere. It just reflects everything around it so perfectly and vividly. The colors, everything.
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This building is as sharp as water is wet; it’s a class act which brought much needed 21st century modernism to Lower Manhattan (resulting from unfortunate circumstances). As a big fan of that 80’s era architecture which captivated the original, I cannot even begin to attach disappointment with the successor.

If you see this one in person any negative perceptions will immediately exit. It’s just a ‘to the point’ skyscraper which possesses a sleek look, a bold personality and glass that will ignited reflections that will leave you in amazement.

Why am I not working on the marketing team for this building?
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When I get to NYC, I want a picture of myself with this silver-bluish skinned beauty. What a handsome skyscraper!
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When the renderings came out and following the construction of this building, I was very quick to dismiss it as 'just another glass box'. Sure, at quick glance it does look like a 1950's Madison Avenue Emory Roth & Sons slab. But once I got to see it in person, I really liked the fenestration design by Childs. It's really quite lovely in person.

































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