Fun Fact: The Time Warner Center is a mixed-use skyscraper complex across the street from Central Park (the Southwest corner). It houses offices, residential condominiums, a hotel, a theater and shopping... as well as CNN studios, from where Anderson Cooper 360° is broadcast live. [No, sadly I did not run into Andy-- even though Derek works out at the same gym and claims to see Mr. Cooper all the time, Boo!]TWC was the first major building to be completed in Manhattan after 9/11, although it was already under construction in 2001. The design pays homage to the streets of New York: The curvature of the base helps frame Columbus Circle, the angle of the two towers aligns with Broadway, and the space between the towers gives the illusion that 59th Street passes through. In addition, the rectangular patterns on the glass curtain wall overlooking Columbus Circle suggest the Manhattan street grid. The building drew publicity in 2003 when Mexican financier David Martinez paid $54.7 million dollars for a penthouse condo, then a record for New York residential sales.
TWC was seen the movie, Cloverfield. I personally recognized it as where Ellen DeGeneres filmed her talk show during her most recent visit to the Big Apple.
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