Time Warner Center provides Home for the Future.Showcasing Time Warner Cable's latest offering of industry-leading digital products and services as well as successful digital initiatives from Time Warner's other businesses, Home to the Future (www.hometothefuture.com) is a four-story, interactive installation built inside the Time Warner Center The Time Warner Center is a mixed-use skyscraper developed by The Related Companies in New York City. Its design, by David Childs and Mustafa Kemal Abadan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, consists of two 229 m (750 ft) towers bridged by a multi-story atrium containing upscale retail at New York City's Columbus Circle that opens to the public today (Wednesday) for three weeks. Conceived and constructed by world-renowned designer Edwin Schlossberg of ESI (Edge Side Includes) A markup language for Web pages that enables elements of a Web page to be dynamically assembled in servers distributed throughout the Internet. Design, Home to the Future is expected to attract nearly one million New Yorkers and tourists to Time Warner Center and will give them the opportunity to connect with the innovative digital experiences from Time Warner Cable This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. and Time Warner's other brands in a futuristic environment. Dick Parsons, chairman and chief executive officer of Time Warner Inc. said, "Home to the Future highlights Time Warner Cable's latest digital products and services in a most dramatic way inside the Time Warner Center, one of Manhattan's premier destinations. "We also are pleased to showcase our industry leadership in other digital arenas with a variety of innovative initiatives from AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Time Inc., Warner Bros., Turner Broadcasting and HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy as well as Time Warner Cable." The four-story structure will occupy about 45,000 cubic feet and weigh approximately 28,000 pounds. More than 7,500 square feet of digitally printed translucent scrim scrim n. 1. A durable, loosely woven cotton or linen fabric used for curtains or upholstery lining or in industry. 2. A transparent fabric used as a drop in the theater to create special effects of lights or atmosphere. will wrap around the installation; and nearly one mile of cable will be used to "wire" the exhibit and its more than 50 Samsung LCD screens as well as other televisions. |
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