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February 09, 2005
I wanna work there
I'm not sure how long you'll be able to read the deets of the NY Observer's article on the new Hearst building in NY. It sounds ab fab.
Xanadu in NY: Hearst's Tower Vying With Si's by Gabriel Sherman
Cattiest quote of the article:
Lunchtime rivalries aside, Ms. Black dismissed the notion that Hearst's state-of-the-art, spare-no-detail building even competes with Conde Nast's state-of-the-art, spare-no-detail headquarters.Take that, publishers of Vogue and Vanity Fair!Where Hearst commissioned the developer Tishman Speyer Properties to custom-build its tower from the ground up, Condé Nast signed a lease on 4 Times Square after the Durst Organization had already set the design by the architects Fox and Fowle, and the top 25 floors are leased by Skadden Arps.
"I think [the Hearst building] is completely different. Here we are with 46 stories overlooking Central Park, in a signature building that Hearst owns. This is not a developer building, that's a very important thing. We're not renters, we're not tenants. This is a Hearst-owned building. It's only Hearst inside this building. So, it's a different kind of statement," she said.
(In case you're not a publishing geek, Conde Nast is Hearst's biggest corporate rival.)
Posted by cj at February 9, 2005 02:55 PM