Hotel rooms below are served by dedicated elevators. Jean-Georges restaurant occupies the top floors with a three-story atrium dining room with waterfalls flanking the main stairway entrance, and private dining facilities. Five ,gallon water tanks embedded in the 57th floor work as a stabilizing counterweight to minimize building sway during high winds.
The Comcast Technology Center tower acheived LEED gold level certification for energy efficiency by incorporating specific design elements. Floor plans and window structures are designed to optimize natural light penetration into the core of the building, reducing energy needed for lighting.
Each loft features a three-story open atrium meeting and pantry space at the east end of the building. Each loft has a unique interior decoration scheme designed by local artists.
Open stairways in the atriums provide quick inter-floor access and encourage workers to walk rather than use the elevators. Escalators, flanked by two huge metallic volumes, lead to the upper lobby level. This space contains the Vernick Coffee Bar and The Universal Sphere — a domed structure with a geometric patterned exterior that hosts a cinematic experience created by Steven Spielberg.
Another space in the building that is open to the public is the Vernick Fish restaurant on the northern side of the ground floor. Additional shops, public art and seating are also located under the building where the firm has tunneled a subterranean passage that links the existing Comcast Center with the new building and the city's subway system.
Lofty, open workspaces span the floor levels higher up, with each equating to the size of 12 tennis courts. Some of the work areas are double height with natural light flooding in through the large windows. Daylight is also filtered through 13, glazed, three-story sky gardens that are stacked up on the side of the building. The building has a shopping concourse beneath it which connects the building to a suburban station and a winter garden. Three Logan Square ranks fifth among the tallest buildings in Philadelphia.
It stands ftand has about 1. The top most floor is occupied by a banquet hall that is available for public rental. The Comcast Technology center was finished being built in and became the tallest building in Philadelphia.
Comcast also owns the second tallest building in Philadelphia. Fred DiBona Jr. Kenneth Kimutai too June 11 in Society. What gives? As it turns out, those corrugated bands were inspired by the steel train cars manufactured at the old Budd plant in North Philadelphia. Like racing stripes on a sports car, they infuse the podium with a sense of motion.
Foster grew up in Manchester, England, a city that, like Philadelphia, suffered the ravages of deindustrialization and is only now finding its way back through new industries like tech.
Rather than painting over markings made by contractor LF Driscoll during construction, those crude calculations have been left exposed to emphasize that even a building this size and complex is the work of human beings. That aesthetic is a long way from the marble-slathered corporate office towers that defined American cities in the s.
Comcast is, of course, a major corporate power, that exerts enormous influence over our daily lives, but Foster uses his immense skills to present the company in a softer light. Both buildings are even more deluxe and bespoke than Comcast. While the Bloomberg headquarters includes restaurants on the ground floor, its lobby and interior spaces are as fortified as Fort Knox. Apple is many times worse. It sits in splendid isolation behind a security perimeter on a acre suburban campus.
Both are temples where the engineer-gods cook up new ways to keep us connected to our devices. In contrast, Comcast weaves its building directly into the fabric of the city — through a pristine, art-filled SEPTA concourse, through a new, midblock crosswalk on 18th Street, through its restaurant, theaters, and ballroom. By making its new tower accessible to the public, Comcast offers a different, and far preferable, model for the architecture of tech.
City Hall remains the tallest masonry building in the world, and set the unofficial height limit for the city for much. Those are a kind of exoskeleton, supporting the structure so it can stand upright.
That first Comcast tower was often criticized unfairly for lacking a spire. As it telescopes up, the metal panels change color, from light gray to dark gray and back again. The mismatch was apparently caused by the louvers embedded in the mast to allow steam to exhaust from the building. Their openings make the gray metal appear darker than it is.
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