 | ALL HEADLINES |  A ?Green? Building, With Chairs to Match OFFICE chairs should be islands of ergonomic perfection: stable, fully adjustable and supportive. But nowadays, there is a new virtue to consider: that the chairs should also be ?green? ? made of benign materials that are fully recyclable ? so that they are kind not only to the lower back, but also to the environment.
October 22, 2006 New York City's First ?Gold? Office Building Opens The Hearst Tower, with its distinctive triangular frame, opened in New York City October 9 as the city?s first Gold LEED® certified building. The 46-story, 856,000-square-foot Midtown structure is defined by vertical and horizontal energy-saving, diamond-shaped bands of bright stainless steel. The design is by AIA Gold Medal recipient and Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Lord Norman Foster, Hon. FAIA, of U.K.-based Foster and Partners.
October 20, 2006 Hearst Tower in New York City Officially Opens Hearst Tower officially opens this evening with a gala celebration presided over by Hearst Corporation President and CEO Victor F. Ganzi, Vice Chairman Frank Bennack, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Hearst Tower architect Lord Norman Foster.
October 9, 2006 Cisco Goes Green in Hearst Tower Cisco Systems Inc. is showing off a massive new WiFi win at the recently-completed Hearst Tower in the heart of NYC, which has just become the first skyscraper in the Big Apple to be awarded "green" status by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
September 21, 2006 Lunch Break Looking for a company's soul? Just visit its cafeteria. The communications company Hearst designed its brand-new corporate headquarters in midtown Manhattan to foster a more coherent culture. By September, many of the company's magazine staffs, previously scattered at 12 sites, will have moved into the historic 46-story building on West 57th Street. It will be the first time Hearst has had one main corporate cafeteria.
August 21, 2006 Green Wonders of the World Ten years ago, large-scale green building was still a pipe dream. Most of the designs were the architectural versions of horsehair shirts, neither very comfortable nor very pretty. Using less energy inherently meant making do with less?less heating, less cooling, less of the symbolism and grandeur that define great architecture.
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