{"id":192472,"date":"2022-01-21T11:27:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T16:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_project&p=192472"},"modified":"2022-11-14T15:14:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T20:14:04","slug":"kohn-pedersen-fox-associates-earns-an-iconic-new-classic-best-of-year-award","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/kohn-pedersen-fox-associates-earns-an-iconic-new-classic-best-of-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Earns an Iconic New Classic Best of Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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January 21, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Jane Margolies<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Earns an Iconic New Classic Best of Year Award <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

2021 Best of Year winner for Iconic New Classic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was no small feat to conceive what would be the tallest office tower in Midtown on a site right next to a diminutive landmark\u2014especially when that landmark is the beloved Grand Central Terminal. But Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates<\/a> pulled off the trick of negotiating the relationship between its contemporary One Vanderbilt and the beaux arts train station dating to the early 1900s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photography courtesy of Raimund Koch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At 1,400 feet tall, the 1,750,000-square-foot, 93-story tower pierces the sky with four interlocking and tapering volumes that spiral upward. But equally careful attention was paid on the ground level, where a wide, welcoming entrance opens onto a new\u2014and very popular\u2014\u2153-acre pedestrian plaza with massive circular planters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photography courtesy of Raimund Koch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

An installation in front of the lobby\u2019s marble feature wall references the building\u2019s many diagonal features. It consists of 540 bronze pieces, fabricated at foundries in the Hudson Valley and Australia and suspended by almost imperceptible cables. The pieces were embossed, pressed, hammered, and polished before being subtly chamfered, torqued, and otherwise made unique, explains KPF president and design principal James von Klemperer. \u201cIt reflects light and enriches the lobby\u2014and the plaza beyond\u2014with a dynamic sense of free-floating movement.\u201d And fits right in with its neighbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photography courtesy of Michael Moran\/OTTO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
PROJECT TEAM<\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates<\/span><\/a>: A. Eugene Kohn; James von Klemperer; Dominic Dunn; Charles Ippolito; Jeffrey Kenoff; Trent Tesch; Andrew Cleary; Darina Zlateva; Nicole Mcglinn-Morrison; Rachel Villalta; Katsunori Shigemi; Alessandro Boccacci; Steven Smolyn; Rebecca Kent<\/span><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n