Any Architecture project invariably has problems, aggravations, celebrations, dispositions, and eventually completions; any large scale architecture project has all these same characteristics with the added investment of hundreds of other people, this case in point speaks about the design, development, and ultimately the completion of Worldwide Plaza on the west side of Manhattans business district.

Worldwide plaza was a very intensive fast track office tower with additional residential tower. This project involved three different players: the Architect, S.O.M. New York City, with David Childes and the Project Architect; the Developer, Zeckendorf developers with Jack Schuster as representative; and the Contractor: HRH Construction N.Y.C. with Dominic Fontie acting as construction manager. There were many interesting viewpoints and examples that were presented throughout the interaction of these three key figures, these examples are what I would like to investigate in this breakdown of the movie, “Skyscr

Worldwide Plaza had many interesting and strenuous variables that came into play during the construction of the complex. There seemed to be three specific variables that stuck out to me that seemed to affect the construction costs, schedule, and building quality, these included the relocation and renovation of local apartments in the area, the façade work, and the marketing firm of O&M

The façade work was another interesting variable to see play out. The work for the façade was left to Dominic Fontie who had to deal with all the aspects of the exterior work as well as the rest of the building. As stated in the architect’s handbook; “It may be desirable to break large projects into smaller ones to stimulate local contractor competition. Critical shortages and items with long lead times may suggest fast-tracking so that orders can be placed early” of Dominic Fontie would have addressed this problem in this manner, he may have avoided a large headache.

The third aspect was the major client of the building O&M, because they were brought into the process so early in the game the

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