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The Ford World Headquarters, also known as the ''Henry Ford II World Center'' and popularly known as ''the Glass House'',〔〔 is the administrative headquarters for Ford Motor Company, a 12-story, glass-faced office building designed to accommodate a staff of approximately 3,000. The ''Glass House'' is located at 1 American Road at Michigan Avenue in Dearborn, Michigan, near Ford's historic Rouge plant, Greenfield Village, the Henry Ford Museum, and Fair Lane, Henry Ford's personal estate.〔 In 2008, columnist George Will said the building opened at "the peak of American confidence" and described the headquarters as having a "sleek glass-and-steel minimalism that characterized up-to-date architecture in the 1950s, when America was at the wheel of the world and even buildings seemed streamlined for speed."〔 While under design and construction, the building was called the ''Central Staff Office Building'' and was later referred to as the ''New Central Office Building'' to distinguish it from the company's prior headquarters nearby.〔 The building was later referred to as the ''Ford Motor Company Administrative Center'' and was formally renamed the ''Henry Ford II World Center'' in June 1996.〔〔 ==Design and construction== Formally announced in 1950, the new Central Staff Office Building was delayed by construction moratoriums in place during the Korean War.〔 Construction broke ground on September 29, 1953〔 and the building was dedicated on September 26, 1956. In addition to the prominent 12-story office building, the ''Glass House'' includes an adjacent three-story structure accommodating an employee cafeteria, dining rooms〔 and parking garage for 1500 cars〔—the two elements connected by a concourse.〔 The headquarters was designed in the International Style〔(【引用サイトリンク】work= SAH-Archipedia )〕 by noted architects Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois, both with the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.〔 De Blois designed the three-story portion of the complex.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) )〕 Described as a "tall city in a park,"〔 the complex was master planned by William L. Pereira and Associates of Los Angeles, requiring multiple entry points to adequately serve the concentrated daily influx of cars.〔 Located on 〔 (originally )〔 previously belonging to Henry Ford's private estate,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Wikimapia )〕 the grounds have since 1966〔(【引用サイトリンク】work= Plantsgalore )〕 also been the site for the Arjay Miller Arboretum, featuring trees and shrubs native to Michigan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Wildlife Habitat Council )〕 Constructed of reinforced concrete with an estimated of tinted, heat-absorbing glass, and standing tall, the ''Glass House'' features central air conditioning, escalators on the first seven floors to augment elevators, movable interior partitions and glass partitions for primary interior corridors.〔 To maximize interior flexibility, structural columns are located outside the exterior curtain wall or within the building's core, providing a clear interior span for office space.〔 In addition to the tinted, heat absorbing glass, the facade's curtain wall was designed with , light-weight sandwich panels composed of five layers: an outermost layer of 16-gauge porcelain enameled steel bonded to a expanded aluminum honeycomb, a sheet of 24–gauge galvanized steel, of cellular insulation (marketed as Foamglas) and finally an interior 18–gauge steel skin. The building used 6,616 panels in a semi-matte green color and was the largest known use of porcelain enamel composite panels in a single building at the time of its construction, using over of the material.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Pittsburgh Corning Corporation )〕 The long side of the building's rooftop mechanical penthouse screen walls originally featured the word "FORD" in tall block lettering–later replaced with the company's trademark Blue Oval logo. In 1999, the company replaced the ''Blue Oval'' at the penthouse screen wall with the words "Ford Motor Company" in the company's original trademark script, referred to by Ford as the "trustmark".〔 Ford returned the ''Blue Oval'' again to the penthouse screenwalls in 2003, in time for the company's centennial.〔〕 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「Ford World Headquarters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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