Article: Up to the minute: at Time in New York, outdated office space gives way to a contemporary conference center.

New York's Time & Life Building, known fondly in journalism circles as the Shabby Palace, happens to boast some decent design credentials. Built in 1958 by Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, the Rockfeller Center tower once had an Isamu Noguchi ceiling installation in the lobby, and even now it retains a loser Albers mural and a rippling terrazzo floor pattern called Copacabana. That modernist legacy was precisely what Time executives hoped to tap into by hiring Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum to transform the building's nondescript second floor--formerly leased by a separate company, Gilman Paper--into a multiuse conference center worthy of the largest magazine publisher in the ...

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