New York Times Building: Role of Selected Features
Publication: Journal of Architectural Engineering
Volume 20, Issue 1
Abstract
With a height of 52 stories and a steel structure visible from the exterior, the New York Times Building is the third-tallest building in the city of New York. Located on 8th Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, it was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. Two separate structures comprise the building: a 5-story podium rectangular in plan and a 52-story tower with a cruciform plan. Two interesting features of the structural system are the bracing system, located both on the perimeter and in the core, and the outrigger systems, located at the two mechanical floors. The effectiveness of these features, as well as the pretensioning of diagonals, is examined numerically in this paper by studying their influence on deflections due to wind, distribution of internal forces, and dynamic response of the building.
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Acknowledgments
The study presented in this paper was developed based on the master’s thesis work by three students at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Danilo D’Alessandro, Irene di Nardi, and Simone Rea) while they were resident visitors in the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University. In particular, the authors thank Jeffrey A. Callow, P.E., Senior Project Engineer of the Thorthon-Tomasetti Group, for his collaboration and support.
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Journal of Architectural Engineering
Volume 20 • Issue 1 • March 2014
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Received: Mar 22, 2013
Accepted: Jun 24, 2013
Published online: Jun 26, 2013
Published in print: Mar 1, 2014
Discussion open until: May 10, 2014
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