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The Time & Life Building is a 48-story office building, located at 1271 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue) in Rockefeller Center in New York City. It opened in 1959 as the ''Time & Life Building'', designed by architect Wallace Harrison, of Harrison, Abramovitz, and Harris.〔http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/timelife.pdf〕 ==History== The Time & Life Building was the first of four in Rockefeller Center designed by Harrison, Abramovitz, & Harris on the west side of Sixth Avenue. Harris served as the building's project manager and was responsible for overall planning. The Time & Life Building was the first expansion of Rockefeller Center west of the Avenue of the Americas. Air rights were purchased from the Roxy Theatre to the west. The Roxy was torn down in 1960 to erect an office tower connected to the Time & Life Building. The building is clad in green glass and features column-free floors of . Large murals by Josef Albers and Fritz Glamer adorn its lobby, which integrates a serpentine patterned sidewalk design found on the sidewalks of Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach with the adjacent sidewalk, 〔 a salute to its location on The Avenue of the Americas. Time Inc., the publisher of ''Time'', ''Life'', ''Sports Illustrated'', ''Fortune'', ''House & Home'', and ''Architectural Forum'' magazines initially occupied 21 floors. CNN's ''American Morning'' was based there from 2002 to 2006. CNN's ground floor studio is occupied by the studio of SportsNet New York, currently CNBC ''Squawk Box''. In May 2014, Time Inc announced that the company was planning to leave the Time & Life Building for the Brookfield Place complex in lower Manhattan.〔http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-22/time-inc-to-move-to-lower-manhattan-s-brookfield-place.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Time-Life Building」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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