Valerie Aguilar, Kayla Macedo, Kimberly Kampayana,

ARC-200-ONC Pragya Bansal

1. Background Information
★ 41 Park Row, also 147 Nassau Street and formerly the New York Times
Building, is an office building in the Financial District of Manhattan in
New York City, across from City Hall and the Civic Center. It occupies a
plot abutting Nassau Street to the east, Spruce Street to the north,
and Park Row to the west. The building, originally the headquarters of
The New York Times, is the oldest surviving structure of the former The former Times Building at One Times
"Newspaper Row" and has been owned by Pace University since 1951. Square as seen in 1904

★ The original building ★ Architectural style: Romanesque

constructed for the Times
was a five-story structure in
the Romanesque revival
style, designed by Thomas R.
Jackson, that occupied the
site of the Brick Presbyterian
Church.
Revival
★ Address: 41 Park Row, Manhattan,
New York
★ Coordinates: 40°42′42″N 74°00′22″W
★ Opening: 1889
★ Renovated:1904–1905
★ Owner: Pace University
★ Architect(s): Renzo Piano
★ Developer :The New York Times
★ Main contractor:David H. King Jr.
First building at 41 Park Row, 1874
2. What Influenced The Design
❏ The new york times building designed by
Renzo Piano was influenced by the culture
of transparency.
❏ Renzo wanted the structure to showcase
the the face of truth and transparency of
the company.
❏ He designed the building to create a sense
of security using that culture instead of
opacity.
❏ The goal of the design was to make this
building energy efficient and let light
prioritize.
 3. Structural
Elements
1. Foundation

2. Floor System

3. Columns

4. Vierendeel Frame

5. Lateral System
 3. 1 - Foundation
➢ It combines typical spread footings with
caissons to achieve its maximal axial
capacity.
➢ A layer of sand underneath the
building descends 103 feet (31m)
➢ The brick piers under the building are
22 feet (6.7m) deep and are
connected by inverted brick
arches( max depth is 27 feet)
➢ From the previous building on the
site(1858) the foundational piers are
wrapped with masonry to allow them
to handle the current buildings greater
load.
3. 2 - Floor System
➢ A floor system is a compost system
with a typical bay size of 30’ x 40’
surrounding the 90’ x 65’ core.
➢ The floor system includes
surrounding bays to a central core.
(sizes may vary)
➢ Includes concrete and metal decking
➢ Also to maintain a centerline in the
center of the spandrel panel, it uses a
crooked connection or ‘dog-leg’.
3. 3- Columns
➢ The 30” x 30” box columns at the exterior
notches of the tower consist of two 30” long
flange plates and two web plates insect 3” from
the exterior of the column on either side.
➢ The welded box column very from 7” thick at
the ground floor to 1” thick at the fifty second
floor.
➢ This is for the different steel areas needed for
the higher forces at the bottom of the building.
➢ To maintain consistent proportions at all floors,
a hierarchy of flange plate thicknesses was
developed.
➢ Interior column are a combination of built-up
sections and rolled shapes.
3. 4- Vierendeel
Frame ❖ A Vierendeel system was used at the 20 feet cantilever
sections of the tower.

❖ The middle line of the cantilevered bays have beams

connected to the columns thus creating the Vierendeel
system and engaging every floor except at the outrigger
levels.

❖ At the outrigger level; floor 28 and floor 52, large diagonal

braces tie the middle line back to the core through the
outrigger trusses.

❖ At the exterior beam lines of the cantilever, 2" diameter

steel rods were connected from the columns to the ends
of the beams to control deflection at every floor.

❖ This allowed the beams to be designed only for strength.

Cantilevered bays from exterior
 3. 5- Lateral System
❏ The main lateral load resisting system for the
Building consists of a centralized steel braced
frame core with outriggers on the two
mechanical floors (Levels 28 and 51).

❏ The structural core consists of chevron and single

diagonal bracing which surrounds elevator
shafts, MEP shafts, and stairwells.

❏ The core configuration remains consistent from

the ground level to the 27th floor. But above the
28th floor, the low rise elevators were no longer
required.

❏ In order to optimize the rentable space on the

upper levels of the tower, the number of bracing
lines in the North-South direction were reduced
from two to one
Success or Failure?
❏ The building of The New York Times tower was a
success however, there are some aspects that
people thought would’ve been a better idea.
❏ The tower was known to not only be the new
home for the paper but, the city’s best skyscraper
in 40 years. The building was successful by its
design and its structure.
❏ The New York Times tower is nearly almost
invisible on the Manhattan skyline, yet it’s 220m
high.
❏ This has people questioning if Renzo should have
designed the building to be more more
memorable like the Empire state building.
5. Environmental Impact
Energy saving
★ The building incorporates many features for increased
energy efficiency.
★ The facade is composed of a double wall glass high
luminosity. The building is covered by a cage made of
tubular ceramic mounted on a steel structure. Thanks to
its heat absorption rates and bright, saving more than
thirty percent of energy. Only interrupted the height of
their own windows. Ceramic tubes change color with
the reflection of light. The screen and the wall of glass
provides a sense of lightness and transparency that
makes breathing andalusia building.
★ A system of electric power generation,
provides 40 percent of energy from the
building with the waste heat used for
heating and cooling. On the floors
occupied by the New York Times was
using a system that allows low-floor air
distribution, which requires less cooling
than a conventional system. The building
also has a system of free air cooling saving
additional power.
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