Reaching New Heights

“The thought behind the structure, is the thought behind concrete in the idea, and how it will be built, of the towering wonder, in architecture”. When an office building is being constructed, this is years of study by the mechanical engineers in the rendering of the layout on the blueprint, and numerous negotiations between the finance arena of banks and real estate companies in determining estimated costs. The reason an office building goes up, and aims for the sky, because there is limited space too spread out. So the only way is up. I will explain office buildings further, but want too take a look at Rochdale Village, a housing complex comprising of 20 buildings into 13 stories each. The same principle’s apply as in office buildings, and everyone who lives in the complex, have been involved in the engineering process in making Rochdale successful in the real estate market. “It’s the depth that was, and the height that is”.

Let’s get back too office buildings. I have worked in numerous office buildings, such as:

1211 Avenue Of The Americas, Rockefeller Center, 1271 Avenue Of The Americas, (TIME & LIFE Building), Rockefeller Center, Citigroup Center Building-153 East 53rd Street-(White Building that looks like a shaver), 888 Seventh Avenue, East 40th Street and Madison Avenue and 1140 Avenue Of The Americas, and many others. Each had their own design of their own, and viewpoint inside and out. I also had the pleasure too visit numerous skyscrapers in various major cities, but I will only concentrate on three cities, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco:

CHICAGO: SEARS TOWER, QUAKER OATS BUILDING,

JOHNSON PUBLISHING BUILDING AND JOHN HANCOCK BUILDING.

BOSTON: PRUDENTIAL TOWER AND JOHN HANCOCK BUILDING.

SAN FRANCISCO: TRANSAMERICA PYRAMID

These buildings had their own sophistication combined with modern features. In the Citigroup Center building for example, the elevators were double-decker. All the buildings had their own illumination, and not one had any similarities too the other. The buildings don’t outcast the other, but complimented each other. “The beam of light that shines, is the beam of light that fits into the skyline”. Look at the office building over there, and how about that one over there! When you are walking around the city, whether it is midtown or downtown, please look up, and admire the majesty of the landscape, and think of the hard work that went in producing the structure.  Please examine the architecture in design that makes the building unique, and the height for which it stands.

“The structure that is solid as the cement, and comes with an idea of a new born infrastructure, is the same foundation of bedrock that the building was meant too be”.