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Tycon Center is a development in Vienna, VA, owned at the time of its inception by James T. Lewis Properties.〔(Tall Talk Of the Town; Tysons' Towering Landmark Turns the Corner to Comment ) 〕 It is also known as Tycon Towers 1. The original intent was to build three towers, curved in plan, with curved parking structures behind each one. The building was designed by John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson.〔(8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Tysons Corner )〕 Mr. Johnson used round brick-clad column details similar to previous projects. Only the first building of the three proposed was completed as part of the original project.〔(Article | The American Prospect )〕 The office building is 17 stories,〔(Glen Construction Company - Our Portfolio )〕 brick on precast panels trimmed with limestone sills, lintels and keystones. The granite clad lobby has a 3-story space. The top level includes a barrel vault skylight across the building's width. Known locally as "The Shopping Bag" because of its distinctive shape.〔 It has three levels of underground basements totaling .〔 Construction of the project was completed in 1986.〔 It used 4,500 tons of steel.〔http://web.archive.org/web/20070221161650/http://www.cives.com/Assets/PDFs/TyconTowers.pdf〕 Tycon Towers used over 1.25 million bricks. Of those bricks, 700,000 were special shapes used primarily in building the massive columns. The brick is from Belden Brick Company's Belcrest line, renowned for their quality and consistency.〔http://www.pvbrick.com/images/slide_show.swf〕 ==Project team== *Owner: Tycon Development Corporation〔(untitled )〕 *Engineer: Guido & Fernandez〔 〔http://www.fernandez-assoc.com/project/tycon.html - Tycon Tower〕 *Steel Contractor: Glen Construction Company〔 *Structural Steel and Fabrication: Cives Steel Company 〔 *Architectural Precast: Smith Midland 〔(- Structural Panels Support Hand-Laid Brick ) 〕 *Steel Modeling: Mountain Enterprises Mtent Inc.〔(Mountain Enterprises - Project Profiles )〕 *Project Manager: Tom Bellingham *Project Architect: Alan Ford, AIA *Project Architect for the parking structure: Monty Mitchell *Project Design: Betsy del Monte *Brick Supply: Potomac Valley Brick *Masonry Contractor: United Masonry 〔 *Water treatment: Arc Water Treatment Company 〔(Arc Water Treatment Company of Maryland - Newsletter )〕 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「Tycon Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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