The Westin Hotel is located at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue. It almost covers a whole block from 42nd Street to 43rd Street and half a block from Eighth Avenue to Seventh Avenue. The building can be seen as a skyscraper, and the style is very modern and international. Glass has predominated the facades of the Westin Hotel Building, and it is the one of the main materials using for this building, as well as steel and concrete. The building has 45 stories. Most features of the tower characterize it with postmodernism. Some of the features that link the building to post-modernism include the use of irregular colors, and the stress on sustainability through the choice of building materials and design. The surface of the building exteriors is flat. …show more content…
Some of the key features of the building seem like that they are similar to the housing style near the equator, where blocks include the curvilinear elements, with turquoise tiles and green claddings. Another key feature that is a bit conspicuous is the palm fronds on the door of the main entrance of the building. The elements show that there has been a trend where Latin Strains are spreading to the north in America. North America is also habituated to the theater, music, and film. The designers incorporated all these aspects in the design of the Westin Hotel. For instance, there is an AMC theatre and some Broadway theatres …show more content…
Gold, orange, and yellow have predominated the eastern facades while blue glasses are dominant on the western facades. Orange and blue could be termed as one of the most decadent combination. The aluminum frames hold the colored glass, sandwiching clear inner glass. An insulating space also exists between the inner glass and the outer glass. One can link the use of orange and blue color to be inspired by the aspects of skies and the earth since the earth is more of orange while the use of blue color that varies in tone represents the sky. In addition, if one looks at the building at different times during a day, the colors of the glass facades will be somehow different. Since the glass materials they use are reflective, it changes color when light changes. If one sees the building on a sunny day, it reflects the sunlight, and the color will be very bright which corresponds to the sky. If one sees the building on a cloudy or raining day, it just stays the orginial color it has. If one sees the building at night, the streetlights hit the glass will give people a different feel from the previous cases.
The building also has one of the most escapade lop-sided crowns in the New York skyline. The architect slowly shifts from a symmetrical approach to syncopation. Lights rhythmically recess from the vertical arc to create a blast-off number. Such elegant exterior