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

Yea really is such a waste

Wish it could have been forcible given to a community college or university to turn into classrooms.

It’s a waste but I’m not sure there’s an alternative. Fundamentally the building is just too big for anyone to take on. Cleveland Clinic is by far the largest employer in Cleveland and if they don’t want it…

It does speak to how much Americans are overcharged for healthcare when a building that nice can just be torn down and the land sold by a hospital. And it is hard to believe that spending millions to tear it down is the best economical path.

cant let anything nice trickel down on the cheap @@Alexlfm

Thanks, Interesting comment. For whatever reason the space looks very adaptive for Another 50yrs. I'm not sure what modern company could utilize that much SQ. Footage There's enough room for Two headquarters. Too bad they just didn't donate it, contingent upon a profit share if they sell later on.

Ok, so go on then. This looked like it was an astonishing place to work in.

@@GS-zc4sk Just the upkeep alone would swamp just about any commercial concern you can think of today. Back then things were bigger is better including the giant company that does everything. Now it's all about efficiency where a more broken up and less top heavy approach is preferred. Even the mega factories of Tesla are more application specific than what we had back then.

@@InsideOfMyOwnMind There are many commercial entities today that are that big. Investors could buy it and rent space to many entities.

@@GS-zc4sk They did donate it, to cleveland clinic. it was never a good fit for them. cc eventually relocated the personnel that were in there.

Welcome to modern government. This was a brand new 450,000 square foot office building with a 4,000 car parking garage. Demolished for tax purposes. All while it cost like $1.4b of tax payers money. The western society is done. Canada and america are straight up insanity level dystopian

Yeah, I agree. Imagine this being your home wish someone bought it, but things happen sadly

If I lived close to it, I would use it as an office

IF the people in these companies were as "about saving the planet" as they claim to be....they would reuse what we already have.

The Cleveland Clinic NEEDS the tax write-off to avoid losing their non-profit status, as there are few more entire hospitals they can buy for cash. The board members make millions of dollars each...but we don't need to talk about that.

I'd expect nothing less from a company that started by making the vary screws holding the building ...your vary right expert class techs

Electricity still turned on

@Doug Demuro

@@RobsNeighbor "thissssssssssssssssssss is the trw company theatre"

@@d3fault1420 😂 Best reply ever! Now all I can see in the opening scene is Doug standing near an entrance while the drone pans in and out come the words ^^^^^ Nailed it!

Thought # 1 - E.T. Can't Phone Home. Thought # 2- You're not dealing with AT&T, MCI, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc.

It was quite commonplace to EM proof such place actually, still is

Right? What an absolute waste. If nothing else, this could've been made into an amazing residential facility. Maybe even assisted living. But it's gone.

@@Justin-C - No it really couldn't, commercial zoning has way different occupancy codes than residential, it would cost more in renovations to make it legally inhabitable and thus insurable than the actual purchase cost most likely and they'd never make that investment back in 100 years probably. It's a nice idea to save old buildings but codes exist for a reason and you won't get an occupancy permit and thus insurance if you don't meet them. It's why very few abandoned buildings get converted to homeless shelters and such as everyone is always suggesting on here as to make it legal and insurable takes a lot more than adding a few walls and tossing some beds in it, you'd never recover that huge investment. Long term care/assisted living has even more strict codes to meet, if it was cost effective to do the Cleveland Clinic likely would have done so themselves - and they got the building for free.

But it _didn't_ have to be demolished. It was demolished because it was clearly in the hands of morons. Imagine what this sort of idiocy looks like to sane people in other parts of the world!

Same here man, this building could have been so much more! Everything was still working, no sign of disrepair of any kind (OK except for the flashing lights).... But DEMOLISHING withour reviewing the other options? WHAT IN TARNATION WERE THEY THINKING BRAAAAAAAH!?!!!?

@@jongrey1916 there have a been a few malls that were repurposed instead of being demolished

Same here

check out the bloomberg building in london

due to Chinese orders soon every 2nd US Building will be torn down!!!

Never? Lol

If David Lynch directed a Devo video: ...and I love it too!

That shit had me trippin...

Where can we find the full version? I loved the song at the animated part

There are a zillion office buildings in the area. Developers in Northeastern Ohio continuously build new office buildings and strip malls and keep the old, unused buildings sitting abandoned for decades. Just the fact that they want to demolish the building is new for us! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Why they don’t use what’s already there is a mystery…

Unfortunately the "money people" who have control over such things tend to be completely devoid of anything resembling creativity, imagination or vision and are incapable of understanding the intrinsic value of such structures. All they care about or know how to do is create wealth for themselves. That just makes them boring and less than useless as far as I'm concerned. It also doesn't help that there are hoards of power-tripping officious twits on city, county, state and federal payrolls standing in the way of any kind of creative re-use.

The problem with a move-in ready global headquarters built to the absolute highest standard is that the companies and organizations that could afford to buy it would prefer to build their own crappier version to make a statement. It would take a visionary to find a way to spin someone else's leftover HQ as being the amazing accomplishment it is.

@@graywalters8096 Agreed. I think a lot of companies use their buildings to make a public statement. We see this with the tech giants from the 90s to today. While I do not know what TRW execs had in mind when they had this building commissioned in the 80s, considering they were probably not a company well known to the public, they probably did not intend for this to make a public statement, and instead made it suit their needs. In the 90s I worked for a company that had a new headquarters built. The architecture was completely different, but it had a water feature and indoor palm trees. I would say that was the best building I have ever worked in, to this day. I left about 18 months after it was built.

new construction creates GDP. its always in the governments interest to incentivize new construction@@kellyl7688

I want to buy a building like this just to live in it.

@@johnnyrocket1685 Could easily cost $500k/year just to keep it from collapsing.

@@JSMCPN Yes, that’s why I’ll probably never be able to do that in this world lol. If I tried it in the US, who knows how much they’d charge just to sell the property, and from there it would cost a lot to make sure it’s actually secure enough to properly live in. The other issue then comes with Security; Even while owned by others, these structures actively get broken into by random people ((like this RU-vidr) looking to use these abandoned places for random purposes. So how do you fortify and secure a structure as massive as the one in this video, that random people may be effectively dissuaded from their attempts to enter? Then the other issue comes with Cleanliness. Can’t really just turn the other cheek and ignore bad leaks, mold that could potentially be infesting entire rooms and areas of the structure, etc. it would be genuinely impossible for 1 single individual to clean this kind of mega-structure and then maintain it from there. You’d have to hire multiple teams of professional cleaners to clean and maintain everything. . I want to buy a building like this just to live in it, but I’m also not blind to the fact I likely will never have a enough money to make such a dream a reality. It’s fun to dream sometimes.

It's hideous. Concrete fortress

​@@johnnyrocket1685I've thought the same about a city grade school, say 3 story brick construction. Often has a larger lot, so off-street parking might come with such a place. The closure of these neighborhood schools has been going on for decades.

They're total dorks

​@@lannlann says the dude with a ww2 plane 😂

​@lannlann and it's a crosshair

Keep crying

@@lannlann No they're not. Their just young.

Same here, it seems like about 90% of office buildings are featureless boxes.

Exactly. But these two young guys keep saying....this is dated....or that is dated. FUNNY !

People just don't care anymore about art or morale of the people in the workspaces. People spend so much of their time working in these spaces...They want space to be as money efficient as possible. A decay of culture. Really sad :(@@moredistractions

I work in high tech, and as things have progressed over decades, I have to say that it does indeed look dated, but in a nostalgic and pleasant way. This building was astonishingly nice for its time - such a cool place to work compared to many other bland offices of that time. I've worked in much more modern buildings for the last two jobs, at least the interiors. I've also worked in places with old bakelite phones and green vinyl backrests on cold, steel interrogation chairs. Not all of Silicon Valley looks like this vintage of building, but a lot of these are still around. Someone elsewhere said that the card reader looked like it was from around 2004. Those readers were around for a long time, especially in manufacturing settings, but by 2004 there were HID contactless readers in a lot of buildings. As a RU-vid expert, I can only remark on my own observations which will vary from others'.

Well TRW was like ranked in the 50's on the Fortune 500 when they built this so you would expect it to be a lot nicer than most offices. Big defense contractors tend to have some pretty sweet offices especially when it comes to global headquarters.

I wondered where the mainframe was? looks like it may have been moved or relocated. I recognised the IBM mainframe terminal connection boxes in that one conference room. I thought it interesting that there were lovely Canadian Nortel telephones everywhere!

Bursting was separating the tractor-fed forms, decollating was separating multi-copy forms (duplicate/triplicate) into runs of single layers prior to bursting.

@@tekvax01 Probably relocated entirely and no longer even in the building.

@@tekvax01 There was a brief glimpse of networking gear at 29:12 but I'd love to see more of their telecom room...

actually it was originally a storage room next to the reprographics center, in 1987 it became a large mailing center with a inserter and labeling machine. There was originally a in house office supply room in the area where the guy was facinated by the IBM typewriter which for three years had a small in house printing press or duplicator.They shut down the printing services outsourced the work. Several years later the original mail room became a storage area and the two rooms became the mail room. @@quietrevelry

"Years on, and the building looks a though it was abandoned yesterday." If you watched the end of the History section of the video, you'd see that the building was abandoned in 2023...

yea, and nowadays, newer buildings just dont feel the same and too "emo"

​@@thuantexas2814Too much thought into space saving and materials efficiency.

So this building has already been destroyed?

Emo? More like bland. This had style. Unfortunately, yes this is already demolished. :/

Wow, you guys have no idea what you did. When futures generations are taxed to the hilt because of trillions in debt, this video will help explain where the money went @@R3TR0R4V3

please, tell us more.. lots more :)

Yeah, who could’ve predicted back then that less than two decades later Northrop Grumman would come along with $80B and dump the building and its workforce. Money don’t care.

I think someone lives in the house. That's why they couldn't film it.

Thanks for sharing!

It’s beautifully futuristic.

Did she ever work with ESL? I've the privilege of seeing Bill Perry at times. I'm trying to learn more about the history of stealth.

Interesting. Thanks for the excellent description.

Ha, I remember manually tearing off the edges on homework. It was a tedious task - it makes sense that they fully automated it at scale.

I've operated one of them way back when. Ours was a rudimentary machine which separated huge reports I printed for internal distribution. It was about 4 ft high, a letter A shape with a shelf on either side. You fed the report up through the center of 2 rollers at the top which would separate one copy of the report and drop it on one side and the undecolated copies to the other side. The carbon was caught up and rolled around a special rod at the top of the rollers that I emptied after each pass till all copies were separated. Very dirty job.

@@MOE-gm3siI remember the days of using carbon paper in TypeWriters. Blue hands :-). Youngsters will be having a WTF moment about now! :-).

What a shame to take a space like this people spent so much of their lives in and just destroy it.

@@Louis-wp3fqI mean it was just used like 15 years I don't think that's much but it is a lifetime of someone

This was tragic. Just the concept of the money, time, hard work and effort gone just like that.

that's the story of this country anymore its going to do us in too @@Louis-wp3fq

@@Tomluke5823 ..do you think the 1980s was 15 years ago ?

It would have been nice if the place got used again, but I'd rather it be demolished than sit around for decades taking up what would otherwise be a valuable empty lot. A building like that certainly isn't cheap to maintain.

80's kid here too but not from Ohio. I however go to BMW's technician training program at Ohio Tech in downtown Cleveland and lived in Parma. Had I known about that building I would have loved to have seen it myself. I'd love to come back out of nostalgia and reminisce.

Yeah, it really is. Would love to see a longer uncut version.

Interesting background, thanks for sharing. Can you share with us what corporate functions were housed in this building? Guessing it was the executive (obviously) and core business and functions - sales/marketing, finance, supply chain exec, engineering exec, etc. I instantly recognized IT infra office areas by the windowlessness...

Address? State?

@@runner3033 remember that cc did whatever they did while they owned it, so it wouldn't be exactly the same as when trw owned it. and have you ever seen so much cherry, brass, glass, and marble in one building? the floors on the first floor! every door was cherry, and every cube had cherry accents. someone else who worked there should also chime in and correct me on some of these details, since it's been a while. the waterfall did not operate, at least when trw was there, for more than a few months, because of the water/splash issue. i don't know why it would still smell like anything in the stairs, unless cc was using it. i believe there were only 500 or so employees in the building. i've heard 1500-1800, but i don't think that's even close. the two parking levels would only accommodate about 550 cars. there were plants and trees EVERYWHERE in the building. every cube and every office had either a plant or a tree, and there were big brass planters (some of which made the video) all over. TRW had a team of gardeners from a local nursery to tend to all the plants in the building. first floor was support, reception, food service, HR (for HQ, not for the whole company), the HMC, the doctor/nurse, the auditoriums, and ISS (Information Systems Services, which was more maintenance, some networking, etc. and less about mainframes and servers. there was a lot of IT on the 4th floor) i think 2 was accounting, finance, TRW Automotive. i can't remember if flight was on 2, or not (i think i remember that TRW had five planes, and twelve pilots that flew out of Lost Nation airport, a couple of miles from HQ). travel might have been on 2, also. i think 3 was law, the law library, the executive suites, and i don't remember what else. TRW Credit (now Experian) was there, I think (watch me be completely wrong - it's been a while). 4 - the top floor - only had two wings, west, and south. that's where i was. we were the IT/IS team. We had teams of full-time developers, support, and some consultants building systems that were being used, internally. We had a bunch of servers up there as well, but in the 80's and 90's, servers weren't in big racks, they were stand-alone units, and many of them looked like workstations. Example: we had a number of Sun Sparc II's, running Sybase, that we were using for the back-ends to our applications. Most of the divisions were HQ'd elsewhere, because TRW was a conglomerate, so those divisions had previously been their own firms. Space & Defense, for example, was HQ'd in California.

@@GoPoundSalt of this building? 1900 Richmond Road, Lyndhurst, Ohio

@@MissMyMusicAddiction Thanks for the detailed response! Got the idea, have worked in subsidiaries of similar corporations where they called it "World HQ" or "Global" (pilots on staff and all). In one case, flew back and forth so much during an SAP implementation that we used to joke about getting to use the company jet. Didn't happen. This was a very well appointed building for sure and while I'm indifferent towards most 80s-on architecture, it's a shame to lose it, a great example of the 80s/90s "campus" style office building. Even leaving the offices out of it, indoor parking for everyone, how cool is that? At the HQ of one place I worked for, if you worked late you would request security escort to your car...

So did my parents, my dad constantly traveled to Ohio and California. The luxury of these buildings... the money spent... my mother was part of the medical staff for a short time. Lessons learned that high spending companies seem to fail.

@@krisone63 TRW didn't fall so much as get split up. Their credit reporting division is still profitable as is their automotive and aerospace units.

@@1978garfield Experian IS the division. TRW bought Credit Data Corporation in 1968 renaming it TRW Information Systems and Services Inc. In 1996, TRW sold off the division AS Experian to Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners. About a month later, the two firms sold Experian to The Great Universal Stores Limited in Manchester, England. GUS merged its own credit reporting division and a decade later in October 2006, Experian was demerged from GUS and listed on the London Stock Exchange and BAM! Experian as we know it today.

​@@1978garfieldit was a pointless and mostly unknown branch of government. It was literally just a conspiracy level experiment/money laundering scheme. They claimed this building cost billions. Than renovated it for another billion. All while he building did nothing and had like 40 employees. Its a scam of corrupt government. And now they destroyed it, again for tax purposes. The building was basically brand now and fully functional. No reason at all to demolish it besides adding to the shill conspiracy tax write off the building was made for in the first place.

​@@1978garfieldTheir credit reporting started with ESL and Bill Perry. What I can't find out is who "gave" Perry stealth. It's alluded to in his interviews.

It doesn't look "80s" to me. More or less what every big company corporate HQ in Silicon Valley looks like.

I remember the large trees in the Atrium and the annual and perennial plants in the planters around them. Beautiful.

very curious about that woodpecker ringtone. Do you recall the maker of the handsets/phones? Brand/name/model or even how it looked? There's a number of very common lines of office phones, I'd be curious which had it.

That sounds so ahead of its time. Drab lighting can completely kill the mood of a building. Sun mimicking lights sound wonderful. Same with the “woodpecker” ring sound. I swear the phone at my job has given me PTSD

Someone else in the comments said they think the phones were made by Nortel

We had Nortel at TRW Space Park, but I don't think our phones in Lyndhurst were Nortel (I worked at both locations).

The city council rocket surgeons in Virginia Beach Virginia had the first Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome in the U.S. (it was a small civic center) demolished in 1994 for no particular reason other than wanting something newer.

its like everyone want to destroy our old relics...

The good news is that it was used continuously for about 40 years. It had a pretty good life.

In Europe there's a good chance that a building of historic significance would be listed so that it can't be demolished, even if some greedy capitalist wanted to. Beautiful buildings are used and maintained for hundreds of years here. 40 years is not "a good life"!

@@jonathanmelhuish4530 i started to think that U.S doesn't have that kind of body, or if it has, it is corrupt as f.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, as the leader of the interior team, I am devastated at the loss. I put 5 years of my career into this project. The team organized by TRW worked together to bring about a great solution to the requirements of TRW. We interviewed every member of the group who were to work in the building to gain an understanding of what was needed.

The waste a single generation of humans produces is completely mind blowing. I don’t see how humans can exist more than a few 100 more years.

@@NealDprobably won’t ..100 years from appx 1960

@@NealDthis is why people need to stop breeding.

How else was Amazon supposed to build a huge warehouse complex

@@jimbo992 Fortunately, fewer people in first-world nations are reproducing. But I am not certain how that keeps these buildings around any longer.

You should have taken up a collection and save the building.

@ButterfatFarms The comment isn't about the building being saved. The commenter points out that it's criminal that such a waste of resources has occurred. That seems a very valid topic. Your comment is dismissive of that point.

Totally agree. Could have been repurposed into housing and/or WFH units, hotel accommodation etc. No imagination. There should be a tax on demolition and redevelopment property like this to offset the ridiculous waste of energy and resources and tax breaks for reusing existing structures instead.

Completely agree. I couldn’t watch because of the sheer waste.

@@slartibartfast7921 no you couldn't watch because you're an overly emotional snowflake about it. I mean let's be real.

The place is big. You can see it from the highway but you can’t really see it from the street. Beachwood mall is down the street.

More reasons why I feel terrible about this: o I attended the groundbreaking ceremony o As an HR executive, my father was involved with the design philosophy and usage policies of the building, and worked there from the opening date until his retirement 14 years later o I ended up working there for several years myself and had a an office with a fantastic view of the “English Garden” in one direction and a golf course the other way o I was involved in winding down TRW's operations there prior to the handover to the Cleveland Clinic o Coincidentally I drove my father to several medical appointments there as he was nearing the end of his life. His doctor’s office was located on the same floor just around the corner from where my father’s office had been, and he was able to visit his old office, nearly untouched, ~20 years after he retired. (I checked on my office but the Cleveland Clinic had reconfigured the space and made 2.5 offices out of what had been my one office.)

I wish they hadn't torn it down. Reading your comments are a glimpse into your memories. Memories are so dear to me. It was amazing how your father's office was the same as he left it. Just cherish the good memories and the good that came from it. A lot of stuff happens that we have no control of that can be very saddening. @@OlsenKirk

so glad someone else had those trays stand out to them as well . very eye catching

i think a smart tech company looking to get out of california high taxes and regulation could have really loved to move here and restore and update that building of the parts that needed updating. i hope the owners did at least try to sell this building to tech companies first before demoing it. also it is always good for tech companies to move around the country sometimes to take their people with them to build up communities that need a revitalization in their economy and get out of tax gouging states.

Well, thank goodness this wonderful building was able to have you guys go through and create the last, and probably best, chronicle of its existence. I studied this building for my architectural training and always loved it. This video instantly became my favourite PP video. Building and demolishing a building generates a mind-blowing amount of carbon. But, now that this perfectly-serviceable gem has been torn down, at least the current owner will be able to write off the demolition costs and write down the value of the property to defray property taxes. Fools.

Same. Watching a second time now. Added to my Favorites and Downloads. Please do more locations like this, guys.

Agreed in my top #3 favorite from them no question. Amazing Job guys.

Was, Its gone now

@@mathewrussell1533 dang

@@jorgejiminez-rk1uu Can't have you looking out into that atrium when you should be doing work for 100% of the time you are in the building clocked in or not!

yup, just no business that is willing to locate there and take on the maintenance and adaptation of the structure to their needs. Its cheaper to just build new. I foresee this lot remaining undeveloped for some time.

@@jorgejiminez-rk1uuyea I thought my dad had an old building office until I watch nyc diamond sellers having old acs units still lol watch traxnyc and watch the recent short him showing diamonds you'll see how old and poor conditions is everything in there

its space. its its its its its its its its its

Community collage? Like a giant shared work of art?

@@jasonvaughn3478 Cheers to you my guy! I laughed my ass off. I can't believe I didn't catch that. 🤣

Cheap money makes all of this waste possible.

It’s both environmental vandalism as well as cultural vandalism. In the UK, important buildings are listed… i.e. owners are obligated to preserve them if they have cultural importance. It’s a tragedy they don’t have that protection in the US.

The problem here is nobody wants to buy older building as they use A LOT, i mean A LOT MORE energy than modern buildings. The difference is staggering, but that's in Europe. Maybe Muricans can still waste energy if it's cheap. If it starts to become expensive, lots of buildings operational cost skyrockets far above the mortgage itself. That's the problem.

@@HermanWillems Not sure about that since their emphasis in the video was on the fact that it had not been on the market for long, but the owner was getting impatient regardless. Adding new insulation and solar panels seems to be a small price to pay to save a historically significant building, and one that is aesthetically pleasing also. Like the guy said…. Such a waste.

@@HermanWillems ..? Where? Where it's really cold? I really really don't think, with some minor upgrades to the lights, heating and cooling systems, and the installation of some insulation, that it couldn't be turned into something as efficient as a modern building? What's stopping it?

Indeed. Most urbexers tend to ignore the juicy infrastructure bits that I like to see. _"No need to go in there. It's just a bunch of pipes and valves and mechanical stuff."_ *DOH!!*

Yeah, like the plant rooms for the air-cons and electrical systems. I love to see that stuff too.

@@bigbrostevo And elevator machine rooms.

100% the operational aspects of such a building are just as interesting.

As an hvac tech I agree. Love to see mechanical rooms!

I still remember the BASF commercial that had the Mystichrome Mustang driving through what I think was the salt flats.

i loved those wooden slat walls. those were gorgeous!

Well it's still up right now but they're definitely starting demolition.

yeah it does seem like a modern architectural masterpiece that is very thoughtful when it comes to it's steel exo skeleton design and also just the wood slat designs in a lot of the rooms. so beautiful. you would think that someone could have tried to put it on a historic list so it couldn't be demolished :(

@@Ovahlls As of Spring 2023 it was partially demolished, I'm sure it is nearly complete by now. What a shame.

that's a real company...I worked 4 years in IBM Portugal and I had to buy an external monitor for my laptop since they didn't provided one.

Yep. I agree. Another of the many damn injustices when it comes to buildings being demolished when they shouldn’t be.

masterpiece is a great word. I am sad that the architect and TRW global are not around to hear these compliments.

I had the same experience working for TRW. Really innovative and technically challenging work. Scientists and engineers were given the space to try out new ideas and explore. People of all ages worked on a project and learned from each other. All of that changed when the bean counter mentality of Northrop took over.

Yes! totally

I was thinking exactle the same thing!

This building is a marvel of the 80's, it should never have been demolished.

Well, those who earn are never going to learn.

So gather a group together, find the capital, buy it and maintain it. Wait, can’t afford to? Hmmmmm. I sense a pattern. Life moves on, take a picture and build something that’s efficient and maintainable. We’re talking a period of time when environmental requirements were lower and energy costs were radically smaller.

@@c1ph3rpunk what a biblical quantity of shit talk.

Literally just took down a pretty cool glass office building near me built in 2000. Yes 23 years, only to be demolished. Got to explore it, and I see no reason why it needed to be removed. There is an identical one next to it still being used and updated.

Fully agreed, they probably want to replace it with an Amazon distribution center

@@Tokaisho1 😤🙄🙄

Well they got it for free didn't they! So they had no skin in the game and didn't want to put any mental effort into thinking about a use, just get it off the books and move on. JIM

Love your last sentence. How true. I'm 57.

@@elliotdryden7560 i mean you guys are the ones that sold out

Agree 100%, 64 yo here that worked in Aerospace in Florida starting in '84. This building is way nicer than anything we had on Kennedy Space Center.

Entirely fitting that it was a "heathcare" company that committed this act of vandalism.

Yep.....that's why after Reagan was president, workers lost everything, mental health facilities closed.....this was the beginning of our decline and the end of the "American Dream."

i remember that episode

Great reference

Omg yes

Could’ve converted it into a gigantic crack house

@@johnnyrocket1685 some people just have the best ideas

Migrant housing.

@@redgrant4897 migrants have houses in their HOME COUTNTRY

@@redgrant4897 no thanks. We already have enough "migrats" as it is.

Completely agree. You simply cannot rebuild a place like this. There's have to be an egotistical "tweak" here or there. It's beautiful because it's of its time, a time that is long gone, and never to be replicated. It beggars belief that in this day and age, where we understand the impact of these buildings disappearing that we're still allowing this to happen. No doubt the grounds will just be turned into another Amazon fulfilment gulag or some bullshit startup company with a copy and paste "modern" office building that looks identical to all the others. The tragic comedy of the situation is the modern building will probably be steel and glass, which was already there in a much more pleasing, clearly better built form!

​@@skyrocketautomotive670then why did you allow it to happen get off your ass and do something to preserve them, find them new tenants, give them new life.

Don't you go making fun of Joe Gorman But here's another story for you, since I could watch this one from my office: Joe bought one of the first Lexus's in the US. He had WOIO shoot a puff piece about it on the back roundabout (above the entrance to the parking decks)

Ron Sugar's revenge tour is right. I worked for TRW and for Northrop and can't think of two more incompatible companies if I tried. It's hard to fathom that someone couldn't come up with a way to reuse this building instead of plowing it under.

@@NotSpockToo "Two more incompatible companies": Any good engineering company and Boeing. My wife worked for TRW and then Northrop Grumman in California, then Florida. She was always eternally grateful it wasn't Boeing. NG even kept the legacy pension program from TRW.

Yeah... those are the indicators. What a clown.

As one should. The little inclusions of the animations really adds to it. The future happened yesterday.

Why they are the proper people to report on it.

@@rovhalgrencparselstedt8343 Intact? It's gone.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

I didn’t know Gilbane was the GC

What is really interesting about TRW HQ was the sequence of assembling the team. Gilbane was first, followed by Interspace Inc who spent 1 year interviewing every employee, then the Architects were interviewed and FCL was selected as the final team member. Major articles were written on the process!@@randyr.cedeno3617

Sounds and looks like it was built with love..makes me wonder why he would ever sell the company off

That's interesting, I live in Dayton.

I also worked for TRW, but in Virginia. Really enjoyed my time there until taken over by Northrop Grumman. Still keep in touch with people from that time.

My dad worked for Space Park in CA.

Bryan Weissman and Michael Berindei

Like they are doing to the dead malls all over

Those kind of buildings cost more to maintain than they can generate in tenant revenue.

@@JSMCPNyou’re only admitting to the uncreative lazy way they mistreat spaces.

This is exactly what historic preservation is supposed to be for. Local area shouldn’t allow this to be demolished.

@@viciousyeen6644 building like that would use more electricity per month than you make in a year.