allies including France, Germany, and Japan. Ĭomputers at Titanpointe have monitored international phone calls, faxes and voice calls routed over the internet, and more, hoovering up data from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and U.S. Street-level camera at 33 Thomas Street, 2017. Looking north to 33 Thomas Street from Duane Street, 2021. 4 And in 2016, The Intercept revealed that the building was functioning as a hub for the National Security Administration, which has bestowed upon it the Bond-film-esque moniker Titanpointe. Until 2009, 33 Thomas Street was a Verizon data center. AT&T in the 1970s still held its telecom monopoly, and was an exuberant player in the Cold War military-industrial complex. “As such, the design project becomes the search for a 20th-century fortress, with spears and arrows replaced by protons and neutrons laying quiet siege to an army of machines within.” 3 The purple prose of the project brief was perhaps inspired by the client.
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“No windows or unprotected openings in its radiation-proof skin can be permitted,” reads a project brief prepared by Warnecke’s office the building’s form and dimensions were shaped not by human needs for light and air, but by the logics of ventilation, cooling, and (not least) protection from atomic blast. It was conceived, according to the architect, to be a “skyscraper inhabited by machines.” 2 The building’s form and dimensions were shaped not by human needs for light and air, but by logics of ventilation, cooling, and (not least) protection from atomic blast. Embodying postwar American economic and military hegemony, the tower broadcasts inscrutability and imperviousness. One of several long lines buildings designed by John Carl Warnecke for the New York Telephone Company, a subsidiary of AT&T, 33 Thomas Street is perhaps the most visually striking project in the architect’s long and influential career.
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Its only apertures are a series of ventilation hoods meant to hide microwave-satellite arrays, which communicate with ground-based relay stations and satellites in space. 1 Standing 532 feet - roughly equivalent to a 45-story building - it’s a mugshot for Brutalism, windowless and nearly featureless. When it was completed in Lower Manhattan in 1974, 33 Thomas Street, formerly known as the AT&T Long Lines Building, was intended as the world’s largest facility for connecting long-distance telephone calls. The AT&T Long Lines Building, designed by John Carl Warnecke at 33 Thomas Street in Manhattan, under construction ca. That has made it an ideal set for conspiracy thrillers. A windowless telecommunications hub, 33 Thomas Street in New York City embodies an architecture of surveillance and paranoia.
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