3 posts and columns on Renzo Piano

What Kind of Price Is the New York Times Getting for Its HQ?

in Media on January 23, 2009 at 9:13 am PT

The New York Times is close to a deal to sell/borrow against its Manhattan headquarters. Will it have to do it at a fire sale price? Here’s one way to tell: Check the stock price of its neighbor.

Kara Visits the NYT's Saul Hansell (and Gets the Non-Mortgaged Tour of the New HQ)!

in News on December 9, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

If BoomTown had known on my recent visit that the New York Times was trying to borrow money, using its spanking new building as collateral, I might have brought a big bag of greenbacks with me just to say I held a mortgage on the stunning edifice. No matter, as I got a most excellent free tour of the Renzo Piano-designed building at 40th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan and lunch last week from the Times’s longtime and sharp tech reporter Saul Hansell, with whom I did a video interview about the state of the Web and more.

The Impact of Blogging on Architecture?

in News on November 21, 2007 at 11:38 am PT

In a really fine review of the New York Times’ new headquarters building, which appeared in that paper yesterday, the critic Nicolai Ouroussoff made some interesting observations about the interplay of the design with current digital trends. The 52-story skyscraper, only part of which is used by the famed newspaper, was designed by Italian architect [...]