Tycon Center
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Tycon Center is a development in Vienna, VA, owned at the time of its inception by James T. Lewis Properties. 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. 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.
The office building is 17 stories[1], 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.
Construction of the project was completed in 1986.
[edit] Project Team
- Owner: Tycon Development Corporation
- Engineer: Guido & Fernandez
- Steel Contractor: Glen Construction Company
- Structural Steel and Fabrication: Cives Steel Company
- Steel Modeling: Mountain Enterprises Mtent Inc.
- Project Manager: Tom Bellingham (needs citation)
- Project architect for the parking structure: Monty Mitchell (needs citation)
- Project design: Betsy del Monte (needs citation)
[edit] External links
- Picture and brief history
- Picture
- Structural Steel tearsheet and construction photos
- Photo (page 13)
- Steel Modeling company
- Failures of Design in Edge Cities
- Tycon Tower I Inv. Ltd. Partnership v. John Burgee Architects, 651 N.Y.S.2d 637, 234 A.D.2d 748 (N.Y.A.D. 3 Dept., 1996)
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