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Originally Posted by DevdogAZ
If the plate to plate height is about 14', that would put the top of what's built at about 42'. Add two more floors and that puts it at 70'. Then that top level could easily be 30' tall (I'm guessing that's where the production studios for KAET will be) and then add a mechanical penthouse on top of that (which probably isn't visible in the rendering) and you'll get to 110'.
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Overview
Six stories, 110-feet tall, 223,000 square feet
$71 million cost, part of $223 million bond issue approved by Phoenix voters
Ground floor retail facing Central Avenue, First Street and Taylor Street Mall
Shaded arcades under building’s perimeter to foster outdoor seating “café life”
Main entrance on Taylor Street Mall under a three-story high “front porch,” “an urban gesture toward Central Avenue, the civic space and Taylor Street Mall”
Exterior materials include glass, metal and masonry. “The composition is kinetic and dynamic – symbolic of journalism and the media’s role in our open society”
Satellite dishes on roof placed to be clearly visible to express the building’s communication function
Eight/KAET – Arizona PBS
All of floor 5 and parts of floors 4 and 6; 76,323 square feet
Digital video plant with 1.5 GB HDTV transmission reaching 1.3 million viewers
Two TV studios, including one that spans nearly 6,000 square feet, located on the 26-foot high top floor
State-of-the-art production and audio control rooms, editing suites and transmission center
Home to HORIZON, HORIZONTE, ASSET and KBAQ Production Studio
Terrace and conference rooms overlooking Taylor Street Mall
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
All of floors 2 and 3 and parts of floors 4 and 6; 102,592 square feet
Large two-story public forum with balconies for formal events and informal gatherings, the central element of the interior’s design
Spacious glass-enclosed student lounge/reading room off of forum
Five working newsrooms to house full immersion professional experiences for all forms of journalism and communications – TV, print, radio multimedia and PR
Two TV studios with adjoining state-of-the-art digital control rooms for daily newscasts and satellite feeds
Homes for the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, the New Media Innovation Lab and a new center for new media entrepreneurship
Eight other digital computer labs for classes
A 150-seat theater-style auditorium, seven conference rooms and four other fully mediated classrooms
General University
Five classrooms (460 seats) on first floor; seven classrooms (210 seats) on fourth floor; 23,015 square feet
Source: Design-Build Team of Steven Ehrlich Architects of Culver City, Calif., HDR Architecture Inc. of Phoenix and SUNDT Construction Inc. of Tempe