Hearst Tower
PROJECT SITE
Hearst Tower / 201 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
POSITION
Tower Job Captain
FIRM
Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Steweart & Associates, Inc.
PROJECT STATISTICS
Tower = 47 Stories
Area = 935,000 SF
AWARDS
• Top 50 Most Significant Precast Concrete Projects
Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute 50th Anniversary
• Best Office Building
PCI Design Awar
PHOTOS
DESCRIPTION
Full architectural services for a 935,000 SF, 47-story office building along Charlotte’s busy, strategic North Tryon Street corridor. The project includes a 1,400-car parking deck, an urban plaza, and associated retail amenities. The project faces SRSS’s previous Charlotte venture, the 30-story IJL Financial Center across a 1/3-acre plaza.
The new open space preserves the pedestrian friendly scale of the area as well as provides a focus for the activity generated by the 40,000 SF of retail, restaurant, and entertainment space located on the building’s first three floors. The tower lobby and plaza are connected to the IJL Financial Center by an elevated, retail lined pedestrian walkway to Founder’s Hall, extending the network of public amenities established by Spirit Square and the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center.
The tree and shrub lined North Tryon Plaza leads pedestrians into a courtyard with fountains and benches in front of the main entrance. The plaza continues Charlotte’s effort to maintain extensive urban green spaces.