AOL Time Warner Center gets a skin

[Edward]

The views of AOL Time Warner Center (http://www.1centralpark.com) on 16 February 2002.



The view from 60th Street

http://www.wirednewyork.com/aol/images/aol_time_warner_60th_16feb02.jpg



The view from the corner of 58th Street and Ninth Avenue

http://www.wirednewyork.com/aol/images/aol_time_warner_58th_ninth_16feb02.jpg



The view from 58th Street

http://www.wirednewyork.com/aol/images/aol_time_warner_58th_16feb02.jpg



The view from the corner of 59th and 9th Avenue

http://www.wirednewyork.com/aol/images/aol_time_warner_ninth_16feb02.jpg

[Rich Battista]

The skin gives the building the "box look" which was for most skyscrapers in the 60's to even some today. It is the windows though that bring it out of this and give it a slight post-modern feel