Time Warner Center

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Time Warner Center. Photograph courtesy of Glass Steel and Stone.
Time Warner Center. Photograph courtesy of Glass Steel and Stone.
Time Warner Center. Photograph courtesy of Glass Steel and Stone.
Time Warner Center. Photograph courtesy of Glass Steel and Stone.

Statistics

  • Formerly: AOL Time Warner Center
  • Formerly: Time Warner Center
  • Formerly: Columbus Centre
  • Stories above ground: 53
  • Stories below ground: 2
  • Depth: 33 feet
  • Developer: Related Companies, Apollo Real Estate Advisors, and Time Warner
  • Cost: $1.7 billion
  • Gross size: 2.787 million square feet
  • Net size: 2.1 million square feet
  • This building is covered with 871,200 square feet of glass.
  • This builidng is made with 215,000 tons of concrete.
  • This building is made with 26,000 tons of steel.
  • Tower cores: 40 feet wide, 140 feet long rising from the bedrock.
  • Tower one weight: 84 million pounds.
  • Tower two weight: 84 million pounds.
  • Theater weight: 2.4 million pounds.
  • Parking garage: 504 cars.
  • Former address: 10 Columbus Circle, New York, New York 10019
  • South tower commercial address: 25 Time Warner Center, New York, New York 10019
  • North tower commercial address: 80 Time Warner Center, New York, New York 10019
  • Hotel address: 80 Columbus Circle, New York, New York 10023
  • Residential address: 1 Central Park, New York, New York 10019

Timeline

  • 1958: The traffic circle at Columbus Circle is eliminated.
  • 1985: Mayor Edward Koch floats a plan to sell this parcel of land to Mortimer Zuckerman for $455.1 million. The plan becomes bogged down in politics and economics.
  • 1985: A plan from Donald Trump to build the world's tallest building here is rejected. The 137-story building would have been shaped like a space ship.
  • March, 1986: The New York Coliseum closes.
  • 1994: The New York Times reports that an 11 year effort to sell the parcel to developer Mortimer Zuckerman fell through because of the economic recession.
  • 1996: Serious new negotiations begin on redevelopment of this corner of Columbus Circle. The initial vision includes offices and a hotel.
  • July, 1997: Mayor Rudy Giuliani threatens to block the redevelopment plan if it does not include a concert hall of at least 2,000 seats to become the new home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
  • July 29, 1998: The property is sold to Related Companies and Time Warner for redevelopment for $345 million. The winning bid promised two 750-foot towers, 325 residences, a Mandarin Oriental hotel, and a concert hall.
  • August, 1998: The Columbus Circle traffic circle is restored.
  • September 23, 1999: The four massive cast aluminum plaques by Paul Manship adorning the Coliseum are removed. The 1,500-pound 10.5-foot-tall markers bear the seals of the United States, the State of New York, the City of New York, and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority.
  • February, 2000: Demolition work begins on the Coliseum.
  • 2001: Construction begins.
  • April 8, 2003: Fire breaks out from the fourth to seventh floors of this building. 12 firefighters and one civilian are hurt.
  • 2004: Construction is completed.
  • February 4, 2004: This building officialy opens.

Trivia

  • Architect: David Childs
  • Architecture firm: Skidmore, Owings, and Merril
  • Theater designed by: Rafael Vinoly
  • This was formerly the location of the New York Coliseum and an office building owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
  • Before the Coliseum, this area was a slum.
  • Any redevelopment of this site was opposed by a group called the Committee for Environmentally Sound Development, which filed a federal lawsuit because it feared an increase in traffic air pollution.
  • The highest bid for this property came from Donald Trump who offered to pay $390 million. But his proposal was rejected as being too bulky.
  • Other plans for this site included:
    • A $390 million plan from Donald Trump for condominiums and a hotel.
    • Tishman Speyer Properties proposed a "mixed-use complex."
    • Daniel Brodsky, Bruce C. Ratner and Peter M. Lehrer proposed a Sears department store and a 700-room Westin hotel.
    • A bid from Millennium Properties which would have included two luxury hotels, 450 residences, and a large ballroom.
  • According to the New York Times, The original plan for the Time Warner Center's twin towers were, "an explicit homage to the Century and the Majestic, Irwin S. Chanin's great twin-towered apartment buildings on Central Park West."
  • A New York Times article from May 20, 2001 notes that while this building is marketed as 80 stories tall, it is actually only 53 stories tall. A May, 2003 Times article makes a similar notation, but says the building is actually 69 stories, but marketed as 80.
  • There is no single column that runs the entire height of the building.
  • Part of the foundation of the New York Coliseum was incorporated into the new building.
  • At the time of its opening, this building had 191 condominiums.
  • The main theater can hold between 1,100 and 1,300 people.
  • When the last steel beam was hoisted into place for the podium, jazz musician Wynton Marsalis was on hand and played Buddy Bolden's Blues to mark the occasion.
  • The hotel has a 75-foot-long pool on the 19th floor.
  • The towers are 30-degree parallelograms.
  • 26 of the building's columns rest on nine-inch-thick rubber and steel gaskets in order to reduce sound traveling into performance spaces.
  • The walls of the performing spaces are isolated from the rest of the structure by rubber pads up to three inches thick.
  • Residences are wired with television "drops" where cameras can be plugged in for broadcast transmission anywhere in the world.
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