Inside a Defunct 1980's World HQ Building - TRW Lyndhurst

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  @jlwine · 2 years ago

  You both are so correct. What a waste to have destroyed such a functional and architecturally interesting building.

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• DA

  @davesendit1348 · 2 years ago

  It’s actually infuriating they demolished this place. What an absolutely gorgeous building. Inside and out.

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• ER

  @ericjohnson1019 · 2 years ago

  This was personally facinating to watch. I was a designer on the Interspace, Inc. team; we were responsible for all the interior design of the building - the workspaces. executive suite, cafe, training rooms, admin spaces, etc. - working with Lohan and Associates who designed the building itself. The building was designed/built just as PC&apos;s were just being introduced into the workplace; since no one really knew how that would impact work in the long run, one of TRW&apos;s goals was that the building be flexible enough to accommodate changes in work for 50 years. The entire building was planned on a 3&apos; module. All the floors in the office areas are raised floor so power and data could be readily adapted as needed without the need for demolition. The offices were made of 3&apos; demountable partitions, again so they could be reconfigured as needed. The workstations were also planned on a 3&quot; module, and the angled worksurfaces specifically designed to support the PCs that they were starting to use. The atrium was designed as a garden that could be used all year round, reflecting the other special gardens on the original Lyndurst Estate where the building was built. .<br><br>I could go on and on. For me, this was a career changing project.

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• ST

  @stringalongmike1953 · 2 years ago

  First class companies build first class buildings. TRW spared no expense withe the marble, wood finishes, raised floor system, cafeteria, landscaping, etc. &nbsp;I worked as an engineer in the AE industry for almost 40 years and have worked on a lot of nice buildings across the US. This building is among the best buildings I have seen. It&apos;s a shame it has been demolished.

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• BI

  @bigman55434 · 2 years ago

  That office looks 20 times nicer than any office I’ve ever worked in.

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• XR

  @xrajd192 · 2 years ago

  The fact that nobody found a use for such a beautiful and interesting modern looking building is absolutely mind blowing. It&apos;s a shame really

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• ST

  @stevemeshenberg494 · 2 years ago

  I did some work as an AV contractor in the theatre there. It has some interesting quirks and features. The coolest thing is that the whole room is covered in lead lathe behind the walls. The idea was that because secret government information was being discussed in there sometimes even if the room was bugged, no radio signal would get out of the room. When I was inside my cell phone has absolutely zero reception.

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• MA

  @mattbowman9063 · 6 months ago

  I had the privilege of working at the TRW building in Lyndhurst as a Cleveland Clinic IT employee for a few years around 2010-14ish. &nbsp;It was a great space and had such beautiful natural light and I loved the plants and water features on the way up from the underground parking. &nbsp;They did a great job of blending modern architecture with the surrounding green space. &nbsp;I distinctly remember driving up the long driveway one winter morning and a large coyote was chasing a deer down and they crossed right in front of my car. &nbsp;We often saw coyote roaming the grounds there. &nbsp;Memories!

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• SK

  @skyrocketautomotive · 2 years ago

  We&apos;re not going to learn, are we? <br><br>We&apos;re just gonna keep doing this. We&apos;ve lost so many unique, stunning, or just beautifully designed pieces of architecture this last 10 years from the 50s right through to the 80s. <br><br>When they&apos;re gone, they&apos;re gone forever. What a pity. <br><br>Thank you for documenting this amazing place before it was gone. There&apos;s a quiet dignity to a building like this. Some of the best 80s architecture I&apos;ve seen. I was gutted to hear it was gone immediately after falling in love with it.

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• TO

  @Todd82TA · 2 years ago

  I lost sleep over this video. I&apos;ve seen dozens and dozens of your videos, they&apos;re all great... but they&apos;re almost always long-abandoned buildings that need a lot of renovation (at a minimum). But this was a revolutionarily-designed building with timeless style that was in <b>perfect</b> condition. For the most part, it was move-in ready and needed nothing. It <b>kills</b> me that this building was destroyed. It angers me to no end and while I absolutely understand the economy of maintaining a building like this... it&apos;s still such an unbelievably colossal waste.

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• NE

  @neerg63 · 2 years ago

  The boxes at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaeeZAphc2Q&amp;t=1455">24:15</a> aren&apos;t mailboxes, they are output bins from back in the days of batch processing computing. The computer center would be behind there with at least one (usually IBM) mainframe running. When your job ran, the operator would take the output from your job off of the line printer and put it into your output bin for you to pick up!

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• KE

  @kennethmattsson880 · 1 year ago

  This has to be the best looking corporate office I have ever seen abandoned and demolished. I just &nbsp;love this style of architecture. What an incredible waste of resources to tear something like this down.

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