Hearst Tower, Skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, United States.
Hearst Tower is a 182-meter-tall office building at 300 West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan. The structure contains 46 floors and displays a geometric steel framework across its glass facade.
William Randolph Hearst bought the site in the mid-1920s for a theater, then changed plans to a magazine headquarters. Joseph Urban and George B. Post & Sons designed the six-story Art Deco base, completed in 1928 as the foundation for a future tower. The Great Depression and a failed 1940s expansion postponed the tower until Norman Foster's design was finished in 2006.
Hearst Tower is the world headquarters of Hearst Communications, housing titles such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping and Seventeen. The lobby's three-story waterfall, Icefall, is made of thousands of glass panels and cools and humidifies the air, while Richard Long's 20-meter fresco Riverlines hangs nearby.
The entrance lobby spans three stories and acts as a central distribution point for 21 elevators and upper office levels. Conference rooms, a cafeteria, and a health center are located within the upper floors.
A three-story waterfall in the lobby recycles rainwater collected from the roof to help regulate temperature and humidity inside the building. This recycling system contributes to the environmental strategy of the structure.
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