Another building on the Hudson River side, so

it blocked views of outside. Thus, the

architects decided to replace the elevator core
sliding from the center to the blocking
building side which largely destabilized the
engineering structure.

This led them to come up with the

innovative solution by constructing diagrid
structure, inspired from Buckminster Fuller,
a diagonal gridded trusses made up of a
series of a four-storey high interlocking
triangles which supported the tower as the
main structure.
And by that, Hearst again became the first building in New York with no
vertical beam structure. It reduced the use of steel up to 20 percent
compared to a typically framed structure.
The process recycled steel up to 80 percent of the original structure and
90 percent of the tower contains recycled steel.
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