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On the Sunday of Open House weekend in London last month I was lucky enough to get tickets for a tour of Bloomberg's new headquarters designed by Foster + Partners. The building has only been open a year and is one of the most self sustaining buildings in the world.
This photo is of the main hypotrochoid stepped ramp that flows through the centre of the building. The tour included several areas but I thought this stunning piece of architecture was fantastic. Clad in bronze, the ramp is designed and proportioned as a place of meeting and connection, allowing staff to hold brief conversations with colleagues, whilst not impeding the flow of people.
We weren't allowed to use proper cameras, but we could use our mobile phones. The tour did move at quite a pace, so we didn't get much time for photos but I may post the others I have in a separate album at some point.
Occupying a full city block, the 3.2-acre site actually comprises two buildings united by bridges that span over a pedestrian arcade that reinstates Watling Street, an ancient Roman road that ran through the site. The building itself sits near the site of the ancient Walbrook River and when it was being built they discovered over 14,000 Roman artefacts.
The new Bloomberg building also returns the archaeological remains of the Roman Temple of Mithras to the site of their original discovery, Mithras was a Roman god worshipped by secretive Cult of Mithras, which practised between the 1st and 4th centuries. It really was incredible to see this ancient temple under a futuristic building such as this. If anyone fancies seeing it for themselves, the temple is open to the public and free to visit.
This was definitely a tour worth going on and I learnt so much from our guides. Not only about the building itself but about the Roman's who settled in this area and created Londinium.
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Winner of the 2018 Stirling Prize for Architecture.
Its striking façade is defined by a structural sandstone frame, with a series of large-scale bronze fins that shade the floor-to-ceiling glazing. The fins give the building a visual hierarchy and rhythm as they vary in scale, pitch and density across each façade according to orientation and solar exposure, while being an integral part of the building’s natural ventilation system.
Bloomberg Hall with the Baker Library bell tower rising above it.
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The link takes you to a Google map, circa 2003-2005, and the maximum magnification shows this building being renovated.
731 Lexington Avenue is a 1,400,000 sq ft (130,000 m2) glass skyscraper on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It houses the headquarters of Bloomberg L.P. and as a result, is sometimes referred to informally as Bloomberg Tower. The building also houses retail outlets, restaurants and 105 luxury condominiums. The residences are known as One Beacon Court and are served by a separate entrance. The tower is the 15th tallest building in New York City and the 46th tallest in the United States. It stands at 55 stories tall, reaching 806 ft (246 m).
César Pelli & Associates served as the design architect.
The building comprises a full city block between Lexington and Third avenues and 58th and 59th streets. The complex features two towers constructed above a steel office and retail section, separated by a seven-story atrium. The residences are known as One Beacon Court and are served by a separate entrance.
The design of the courtyard at One Beacon Court, which connects 58th and 59th streets, was inspired by other historic New York enclosures, like Grand Central Station, the reading room of the New York Public Library and the skating rink at Rockefeller Center. Glass walls curve around the perimeter of the courtyard, tilting slightly inward as they rise.
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Just in case you happen to be walking by this area when you come to visit New York, slow down and you might catch a glimpse of our former mayor Michael Bloomberg, or possibly Beyonce with her husband Jay Z, Woody Allen and a host of other celebrities and prominent people who own condos in this luxury building. As for me, I was content to simply admire the architectural beauty, design, and movement of this building. It really looks extra special during Christmas time!
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This is the Atrium of the Bloomberg Tower on Lexington Avenue.
Find more Info on the Building here:
3-D Copying Makes Michelangelos of the Masses.
www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-14/3-d-copying-makes-miche...
Just in case you happen to be walking by this area when you come to visit New York, slow down and you might catch a glimpse of our former mayor Michael Bloomberg, or possibly Beyonce with her husband Jay Z, Woody Allen and a host of other celebrities and prominent people who own condos in this luxury building. As for me, I was content to simply admire the architectural beauty, design, and movement of this building. It really looks extra special during Christmas time!
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects deign is distinguished by Beacon Court — a dramatic, mid-block outdoor public space that contains multiple formal entries and a porte-cochere. Elliptical in plan and conical in form, Beacon Court is clad in a structural glass curtain wall supported by an external stainless steel tube and cable system. Initially created to reconcile conflicting programmatic and traffic concerns, Beacon Court evolved into a formal yet inviting urban “room” — an elliptical cone of glass that envelops the visitor.