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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Building Type LocationNew York City, United States 2 Completed Year2006 is the Norman Foster tower addition; the six-story base, the Hearst Magazine Building, was completed in 1928 by Joseph Urban and George B. Post & Sons. Classification
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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1. Hearst Tower (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationEntity description and the lead of the Wikipedia articleQuote, Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
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.
2. Wikipedia
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The Hearst Tower is a skyscraper at the southwest corner of 57th Street and Eighth Avenue, near Columbus Circle, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States.
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The Hearst Tower is a skyscraper at the southwest corner of 57th Street and Eighth Avenue, near Columbus Circle, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States.
lead paragraph, Foster addition completion clause
Above it is the Hearst Tower addition, designed by Norman Foster and finished in 2006.
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The Hearst Tower consists of two sections, with a total height of 597 feet (182 m) and 46 stories.
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- Wikidata Q859452, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
In Style: High-Tech Architecture, Wikidata P149
architectural style: high-tech architecture
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