How tall is the comcast tower in philadelphia

The elevator banks now extend one floor above the roof. The section under the roof and terraces was shown to have gradient glass that had dark glass and the bottom as it fades up to frosted white.

The base also has angled cuts. Comcast Technology Center design evolution click to play. Models and animation by Thomas Koloski. The bright feature on top is reminiscent of One Liberty Place and the other towers that broke through heights once thought unreachable.

By now the tower has been open for nearly two years now with a beacon that crowns the expanding skyline. We can only wonder what building will pass the Comcast Technology Center in height next and how it will fit into the Philadelphia skyline.

Lord Foster designed Park Avenue with the 3 fins which is a very similar design element to the latern spire atop of the Comcast Technology Center. It was such an honor to have Lord Norman Foster in Philadelphia.

I really enjoy his designs. There is a historically protected church on the Comcast site It was planned to put a shorter building after clearing the site but that has not happened at all as they have not moved a muscle at all on the site. Do you think Comcast will buy an existing building not too far away for their needs?

The roof is at about feet tall. When they added the 60th floor to the design, they added that extra height, but the media never found out. Thank you for sharing this interesting news, unfortunately all of the online publications have recorded 1, feet for the Comcast Technology Center.

I do rather like the look of the CTS. I have not seen this but is not some the other buildings are taller? The aesthetic treatment is so different, you might think the two pieces had different architects.

The tower is light and airy, faced mainly in glass that has been crisply detailed with thin metal bands and the distinctive, zigzagging corset. Its facade sparkles in the sunshine. The podium, on the other hand, is virtually opaque. The foot-high shoe box has been so tightly wrapped in strips of corrugated metal that there are only narrow slits for windows above the ground floor.

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.

Located on level 60, its reception is covered in various stonework that is reflected by a mirrored ceiling. The Sky High lounge, which is accessed from the reception, occupies a three-storey space with glazed walls that provide expansive views of the city, with a mirrored angular ceiling reflecting these vistas. Large windows also flood light into the foot-high three-metre-high guest rooms, which occupy nine floors of the hotel. The rooms have a minimal palette marked by bronze details, and curved wooden volumes that contain bathrooms.

Comcast Technology Center is designed to achieve LEED Platinum rating, which marks a high standard of environmental and sustainable design. An active chilled beam heats and and cools the building by passing water through pipes along the ceiling beams, this then cools the surrounding air so it drops to the floor and is replaced by rising hot air.

Blinds shade the glass from sunlight, while other features such as green roofs, waterless urinals and high-performance cooling towers, focus on improving the efficiency of water used in the building. The news comes about four months after Curbed Philly reported that the tower was nearly feet away from topping out. The story tower has been under construction since and will be 1, feet tall.

The Four Seasons Hotel , which will take up the top levels of the tower, is slated to be the tallest hotel in the country when it opens in late The rest of the building will serve as offices for Comcast employees and is expected to open in spring