Hearst Tower rises above 57th Street and Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan as the headquarters of Hearst Communications, combining a six-story Art Deco base, the Hearst Magazine Building, completed in 1928 to designs by Joseph Urban and George B. Post & Sons, with a modern glass tower added on top between 2003 and 2006 to a design by the architect Norman Foster. The original base is faced in cast limestone and carries six pylons topped with allegorical sculptures, while the tower above rises 46 stories and about 182 meters using a diagonal-grid, or diagrid, steel structure that serves simultaneously as the building's support system and its exterior facade, using significantly less steel than a conventional frame of the same height. The roughly 500-million-dollar project achieved LEED Gold certification when it opened and was upgraded to LEED Platinum in 2012, and it holds about 856,000 square feet of office space served by 21 elevators.
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