Time Warner Center @ Columbus Circle - by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

**lofter1** · December 8th, 2009, 12:02 AM

Not sure what they have planned ... dug around on the web but didn't find that info.

**londonlawyer** · December 8th, 2009, 12:06 AM

Thanks. I looked at the links you posted as well and found no information.

**lofter1** · December 8th, 2009, 12:43 AM

If you look at this PHOTO (1920) and use the zoom feature you'll see that there used to be two of the old style subway canopy / kiosk entrances at either end of that traffic island.

Same in this PHOTO (1924)

And HERE (1932)

And in CLOSE UP (1904)

And, also from 1904, PHOTOS showing the interior of the new Columbus Circle Station.

**kz1000ps** · December 9th, 2009, 01:29 AM

Fascinating photo, but I can't believe I've never noticed that blank spot on 15 CPW.... it looks like someone photoshopped out the windows.

**Tectonic** · December 9th, 2009, 08:20 AM

I don't see that blank spot in an image I have of that side from the summer.

So it probably was put in???

**oquatanginwan** · December 9th, 2009, 11:23 AM

Those blank spots are downward facing ventilation panels in the window frames. They look solid because there's a venetian blind effect from the top and the contrast is washed out or filled in by the camera or compression.

15 CPW should be a blueprint for future developers and architects. That folly on top of the tower is a great way to hide machinery.

**kz1000ps** · December 9th, 2009, 11:38 AM

Ahhhhhh, ok. I thought we had a trickster on our hands, or that perhaps someone was starting a "Where's Waldo"-like series for us architecture nerds

**Derek2k3** · January 26th, 2010, 09:42 PM

Evan Joseph

**lofter1** · February 12th, 2010, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by londonlawyer

It would be nice if that barren concrete medium received landscaping like the other B'Way medians.

Originally Posted by lofter1

They are rebuilding the station down below, and a re-constructed entrance will go there ...

Originally Posted by londonlawyer

Is a new canopied entrance planned?

I'm still not sure what exactly is going in there.

Here's an old shot from another thread showing the original canopied subway entrances at the north end of Columbus Circle, circa 1943:

**lofter1** · February 12th, 2010, 09:27 AM

Amazing to see that such a prominent area of NYC roadway was still topped with Belgian blocks as late as the 1940's (and beyond -- as can be seen here along Second Avenue at 96th Street in April 1971).

A reminder that shipping was once king along the docks of NYC -- at an earlier period Belgian blocks were used as ballast in ships coming into New York Harbor and loading up with goods at NYC piers.

**paul_houle** · April 7th, 2010, 09:02 AM

Picture of Columbus Circle thanks to tatler and New York Pictures

**Tectonic** · August 25th, 2010, 06:34 PM

Intercontinental Boston. Looks familiar?

**lofter1** · August 25th, 2010, 07:19 PM

Thank goodness NYC got the one with the slot cut out in the middle.

Maybe it's the angle but there's something really awkward looking about the IC Boston.