AT&T Corporate Headquarters
New York, New York · 1984
Photo · Photo by Richard Payne
A precedent for a grand, glass-vaulted public galleria within a high-rise development, featuring monumental granite cladding and custom decorative lighting that defines the pedestrian scale.
Materials
- granite
- glass
- steel
- brass
- bronze
Visual identifiers
- glass-barrel-vault
- granite-cladding
- decorative-pendant-lights
- atrium-galleria
- postmodern-detailing
Style tags
- postmodern
- classical-proportion
- monumental
Visual tags
- monumental-scale
- public-space
- atrium
- postmodernism
- urban-passage
- Geometry
- A soaring, linear pedestrian galleria covered by a curved glass barrel vault. The space is flanked by a massive, gridded stone facade on one side and a glazed curtain wall on the other.
- Facade system
- Stone veneer panels on a steel frame, paired with a steel-framed glass barrel vault.
- Structural guess
- Steel-framed structure with stone cladding and a glazed space-frame vault.
- Spatial scale
- Grand, multi-story public scale with monumental stone cladding and oversized custom light fixtures.
- Lighting
- Warm, glowing light from decorative, cage-like pendant fixtures contrasts with the cool, diffused daylight filtering through the overhead glass vault.
- Atmosphere
- A grand, theatrical urban passage blending monumental stone with warm, festive lighting.
- Environmental context
- An enclosed public galleria or atrium space within a dense urban high-rise context.
- Spatial experience
- The scale is monumental and civic, transitioning from an outdoor street feel to a sheltered, grand public passage. The hanging light fixtures compress the verticality slightly, guiding the eye down the corridor.
- Composition rhythm
- A repeating line of hanging, cage-like light fixtures recedes into the background, emphasizing the linear perspective of the galleria.
- Style reading
- Postmodern Classicism
- Program
- Commercial office public galleria and retail arcade
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- granite, glass, steel, brass, bronze
- Visual identifiers
- glass-barrel-vault, granite-cladding, decorative-pendant-lights, atrium-galleria, postmodern-detailing
- Style tags
- postmodern, classical-proportion, monumental
- Visual tags
- monumental-scale, public-space, atrium, postmodernism, urban-passage
- Geometry
- A soaring, linear pedestrian galleria covered by a curved glass barrel vault. The space is flanked by a massive, gridded stone facade on one side and a glazed curtain wall on the other.
- Facade system
- Stone veneer panels on a steel frame, paired with a steel-framed glass barrel vault.
- Structural guess
- Steel-framed structure with stone cladding and a glazed space-frame vault.
- Spatial scale
- Grand, multi-story public scale with monumental stone cladding and oversized custom light fixtures.
- Lighting
- Warm, glowing light from decorative, cage-like pendant fixtures contrasts with the cool, diffused daylight filtering through the overhead glass vault.
- Atmosphere
- A grand, theatrical urban passage blending monumental stone with warm, festive lighting.
- Environmental context
- An enclosed public galleria or atrium space within a dense urban high-rise context.
- Spatial experience
- The scale is monumental and civic, transitioning from an outdoor street feel to a sheltered, grand public passage. The hanging light fixtures compress the verticality slightly, guiding the eye down the corridor.
- Composition rhythm
- A repeating line of hanging, cage-like light fixtures recedes into the background, emphasizing the linear perspective of the galleria.
- Style reading
- Postmodern Classicism
- Program
- Commercial office public galleria and retail arcade
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture