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IMAGINING SHOULD ARCHI• TECT'S DESIGN A MEMORIAL FURNITURE? OPEN STUDIO VISIT MUSEUM DIARY CLASSIFIEDS "Bedrock is not ADA-compliant," observed Lower Manhattan Development At 5:00 p.m.on September 19, calls fell so close to the wire Bronx Charter School for Corporation (LMDC) exhibition consult• RAFAEL MONEO DESIGNS the phone lines at New York due to the unprecedented the Arts by weisz + yoes ant leff Howard at a September 15 presen• HISTORIC CAMPUS' LAST PLOT City's Center for Architecture number of submissions (above) and William Clinton tation on the World Trade Center Memorial Presidential Library by were a flurry: The jury, which received this year—roughly Museum, which will occupy the space Polshek Partnership (below). convened only for one day 460, whereas past years have beneath Reflecting Ahxcnce,M'Khae\ Arad's Columbia to premiate the annual averaged 380. Divided into memorial design. The workshop, sponsored AIA New York City chapter three categories—architec• by New York New Visions and the AIA New awards, had just released its ture, interiors, and projects, York chapter, was part of a series of forums Hires Moneo choices for honors and mer• which includes unbuilt, tem• planned this fall by the WTC Memorial Rafael Moneo has been chosen to design its and staffers were franti• porary, and theoretical pro• Foundation, the Civic Alliance to Rebuild a new science building that Columbia cally corralling winners to posals—all submissions are Downtown, and the LMDC, to discuss the University is planning on the northwest race down to the Center in either the product of New subterranean memorial-museum—and corner of its Morningside Heights campus. time for the 6:00 p.m. awards York City-based architects perhaps thereby to spare it the fate of the The new building, expected to between presentation. Perhaps the or a re continued on page 4 adjacent and now- continued on page 6 150,000 and 200,000 square feet, will house research facilities, faculty offices, and classrooms for chemistry, biology, casino barqe now sites on Since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Warehouse in Williamsburg, engineering, and physics departments. s Ohr O'Keefe local architects have been juggling personal designed by Cass Gilbert in 1913 The science building will also serve an responsibilities while trying to dig their clients important symbolic function, filling the and their practices out of the rubble. New m ui uj III m. II, remaining gap in the historic campus Orleans-based Wayne Troyer Architects, Sn M mi HI III <' and serving as a gateway to Columbia's partnered with Lloyd Bray Architects of Manhattanville campus. Atlanta, had just put the finishing touches on While Columbia would not provide Zemurray Residence Hall, an addition to the details about the selection process, Mark Tulane University campus. Students began Wigley, dean of the Graduate School of moving in the Saturday morning before the storm hit. By 6:00 that same evening, they Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, was explicit about why Moneo was cho• were told to leave. Troyer also evacuated and WILL CASS GILBERT BUILDING sen: "The original campus is stone and, is now sharing office space with Jack Ford of STAND IN THE WAY OR BE A PART Ford/Dickson Architects in Baton Rouge, but like so many Spanish architects, Rafael OF WILLIAMSBURG WATERFRONT GULF COAST ARCHITECTS he and his eight-person office are ready for thinks in terms of masonry." RENEWAL? PREPARE TO REBUILD a rapid homecoming. Wigley also noted the dichotomy of placing the university's most cutting- "Although the staff is from all over, they all edge scientists in a building designed DAMAGE CONTROL fell in love with the city and want to come HELL-BENT for a historic context. "Every architect in back to New Orleans," continued on page 6 the world thinks that he or she can make old and new operate well together, but ON KENT Moneo actually can, as is evidenced by his Prado Museum extension," he noted. The battle overthe future of the Williams• The school's last significant architectural burg waterfront rages on. Among the addition is Bernard Tschumi's (1999) many hotly contested properties in the Lerner Student Center, which married area is 184 Kent Avenue, a massive indus• three masonry facades with one of glass. trial building designed in 1913 by Cass One literal way the building will bridge Gilbert. The building, formerly a warehouse old and new is that it will float in part over for a beverage distributor, is currently used an existing gymnasium. Completion is as a loft building for continued on page 3 expected by 2010. aaron seward 3 o
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Sorkin proposes a stadium C/D A game we have played in the office goes something like this: Diana Darling 0^ on Governors Island, dub Name ten world-class works of architecture in New York City. tthe Frepdoni Bowl EOITORI O Cathy Lang Ho h- People usually manage to name about five buildings-the l-H William Menking Guggenheim, Lever House, the Seagram building, the TWA LU Terminal, the Chrysler Building, Grand Central Terminal- Martin Perrin before pooping out. If, like Corbusier, you count the Brooklyn Anne Guiney Bridge and Central Park as major design works you might get connection between reach and evil. But the ASSOCIATE EDITOR closer to a top ten. New York is unparalleled as a city with a attempt to brand critics of these big plans as Andrew Yang great street life, unique urban culture, and a great concentration narrow-minded obstructionists of progress (like of financial and intellectual talent, but it is easier to find ten that dreadful Jacobs!) is pure Moses. And here Daniii Alexandrov great buildings in Chicago or even Los Angeles. we come to the larger point. The Republican Christine Koroki Bloomberg Administration, in matters of devel• EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS However there is a perception—we hear it all the time— opment, measures progress with a single metric: Gunnar Hand that New York is becoming receptive to great architecture. real estate prices. Opposition to giant schemes Jaffer Kolb promulgated on Bloomberg's watch—Ground Stephen Martin Local architecture boosters point, for example, to the recent Zero, West Side, Ratner City, Greenpoint/ SALES AND MARKETING DIRECTOR design initiatives at various city agencies, such as the Parks Williamburg waterfront upzoning—has never Karen Begley Department, the Department of Design and Construction, and questioned the logic of doing something sub• the Department of City Planning under the Bloomberg admin• stantial on these sites of dramatic opportunity; CONTRIBUTORS istration. There's also been a flood of foreign star architects it questions the profit. The widespread use of MARISA BARTOLUCCI/ALAN G.BRAKE/ condemnation and other public review-evading ARIC CHEN / DAVID D'ARCY / MURRAY FRASER / opening offices or establishing collaborations here. And of instruments, the limited and sterile mix of uses, RICHARD INGERSOLL/JULIE V. lOVINE / JOE KERR/ LIANE LEFAIVRE/LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/ course, the process of rebuilding the World Trade Center site the insensitivities of scale (not density), and the KESTER RATTENBURY/CLAY RISEN / has brought phenomenal attention to design and public process. massive engorging of fat-cat developers and D.GRAHAME SHANE/ PETER SLATIN/ architects, are what is being opposed. What the KATSU TANAKA/GWEN WRIGHT/PETER ZELLNER Regardless, the recent 2005 AIA New York City Design heirs of Jacobs seek is not to thwart develop• EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Awards seem to belie this perception. The AIA's top Honor ment but to include a meaningful system of PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ prize gave out five citations but only one (weisz -F yoes' Bronx public checks and balances, not simply the kind M. CHRISTINE BOYER / PETER COOK / that go into the pockets of Bruce Ratner, Larry WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECQ/TOM HANRAHAN/ Charter School for Art) was for a building actually in the five Silverstein, and David Childs. SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ boroughs. The rest were for buildings by New York architects LISA NAFTOLIN/SIGNE NIELSEN / Finally, both Brown and Chakrabarti astutely HANS ULRICH 08RIST / JOAN OCKMAN / in places like Arkansas and Bridgehampton, Long Island. noticed that one of the ten sites I suggested tor KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR /MICHAEL SORKIN The AIA's 12 merit awards only gave four to buildings in New a stadium—Governor's Island—was somewhat exceptional in terms of access. 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BACK AT YOU eggs in the wrong basket and now has them headshrinkers call "projection." For some Marisa Bartolucci's story "After Shock" (AN While I appreciate their peppy responses on his face. And I do believe that most of time, Chakrabarti has been carving out a 14_9.7.2005) referred incorrectly to the disman• to my piece "Ten Better Places for a the other sites would not simply be more strange public position that celebrates the tling of Deutsche Bank building (130 Liberty Football Stadium" W/\/12_7.13.2005), both congenial to the scale and character of the exorcising of the evil-twin "demons," Street). In February 2004, the LMDC acquired Kevin Brown and Vishaan Chakrabarti (AN project but would yield more productive Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, and the the property and announced plans to raze the 15_9.21.2005) miss all the points. First and local benefits. return of planning power to establishment damaged building. On September 8, 2005, the simplest, a West Side stadium was a bad Chakrabarti also claims that I see the visionaries like himself. What his apparently EPA finally approved the deconstruction of the idea from fiscal and planning perspectives demise of the stadium as marking the death equal-opportunity bashing conceals, how• building, which began last month. which is why it went down in flames. The of the West Side plan he was instrumental ever, is that, in this particular antithesis, one mayor—whom The New York Times com• in developing. I have carefully re-read my side was right. I'll put my money on Jacobs pared to Captain Ahab m his dogged pursuit article and can find nothing in it to suggest any day. WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM of that site and that site alone—put his this: His claim is, I believe, a case of what I like big plans and don't see a necessary
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HELL-BENT ON KENT continued from front page members have been pushing for the some 250 residents. Last year, owner and building to be landmarked. The site turned developer Moishe Kestenbaum sought a political as city councilman David Yassky of variance on the current zoning to allow Brooklyn purportedly accepted a donation him to build a large rooftop expansion. His of over $350,000 from the developers and problem was made obsolete after a rezon- soon after publicly opposed the building's ing of the area was approved by city council landmark status. "We sent well over 300 on May 11, allowing for medium- and high letters to the councilman, many from his rise residential development along the East constituents—all with no response," said River waterfront. Bankoff. "We were quite surprised." Expansion might soon be out of the Jordan Gruzen, partner at Gruzen Samton, question, however: On September 20, the hired by Kestenbaum to plan the building's start spreading the news Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) renovation and expansion, opposes the approved 184 Kent's landmark designation. landmarking. "We think that the building What ncw.s? In addition to otlcring more ardiilcc lural gla.ss produi l.s The decision now has 60 days to pass through is an exceptionally poor example of Cass the Department of City Planning then an addi• Gilbert's work," he said. "During its con• iluin anyone. Oldca.sile Chss' has cn-aiLxl ihc- Commercial Projects tional 60 days to pass through City Council. struction he claimed that he didn't want to be Group. They're our top i;lazing expert.s ready to handle " Hie Bit; "After the Greenpoint-Williamsburg held to blame for it." The firm's schematic Apple's" toughe.st j^lazing challenges. So, give them a call today— rezoning, the community was more afraid diagram, which was presented to the LPC, ilu \ re leacly and waiting 1-866-653-2278 www.oldcastleglass.com of height and views, but no one had taken includes a total interior renovation and into consideration the existence of neigh• exterior work that "tries to maintain the borhood character," said Simeon Bankoff, fapade," according to Gruzen. The plan also Historic Districts Council executive director, calls for a roof expansion, though its scope who noted that just after the rezoning, a is yet to be determined. OldcastleGlass^ local community group, the Williamsburg If the building is landmarked, according Greenpoint Preservation Alliance, formed Where glass becomes architecture' to Gruzen, the firm will continue to work in order to protect local architecture. with its clients to adjust the plans according Since the rezoning's approval, community to the ruling, jaffer kolb CO >t o LU
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tive aesthetic with an organically curved Human Rights in China headquarters plan and a vertical, reed-like surface design by Davis Brody Bond. echoed on the building's various fagade rF YOU'RE NOT WORKING ON THE TYPICAL PROJECT, materials. Said Gooden, "I think it's com• DON'T SETTLE FOR THE TYPICAL WINDOW SUPPLIER mendable that a federal agency took that kind of risk to move toward the leading edge of design—and that it was done by a large corporate firm." Another project that stood Tlw Urabursh >VV!«h.li8!0n.OC, out in the this category was Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum's Harlem Hospital New Patient Pavilion, which Gooden praised as Pella's Commercial Division is "commendable given its location in the city dedicated to providing product and the fact that it doesn't rely on 'Africanisms' and design solutions that meet the to relate to the neighborhood and its com• AIA-NYC DESIGN AWARDS 2005 munity." Instead, it uses existing artwork diverse challenges of architects continued from front page located in the city. found in the hospital to animate its lively and contractors. From initial design Throughout the day, judges were looking fagade. While Merlini regretted the shortage consultation and site analysis to for social and environmental responsibility of research initiatives in the projects group— as well as an integration of architecture with an element that he wished would have pro• custom product design and on-site landscape. While they selected a diverse vided "a way to recognize that the field of installation, count on the Pella group of projects ranging from high-profile architecture is also a field of research"— Commercial Division. showcases, such as Peter Eisenman's Gooden asserted that highlighting such Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, projects as the Census Bureau and Harlem to low-budget sleepers like a charter school Hospital "gives the client encouragement Mm in the Bronx, the judges tended to gush to take a risk for a tough building type." most about work that gives back to the com• In the interiors category, juried by Carol munity by making the most of few means. Burns, Louisa Hutton, and Ronald Krueck, Architecture category judges Stefan "The general level of quality was very high," Behnisch, David Heymann, and John Patkau reported Burns. However, the group decid• were impressed by several well-known ed not to premiate any of the numerous pre• projects—including James Polshek's dictably slick lofts and residential spaces, William J. Clinton Presidential Center in opting instead to home in on innovation. Little Rock, Arkansas, and Richard Meier's The New York City headquarters for an Frieder Burda Collection Museum in Baden- organization called Human Rights in China, 15 West 18th Street, Suite 202 Baden, Germany—but were most excited designed by David Brody Bond, stood New York. NY 10011 COMMERCIAL about the Bronx Charter School for the Arts miles above the rest, proclaimed Burns. The architects found a clever solution to a 212-645-6486 by weisz + yoes architecture + urban design. A rehabilitation of an old factory building space shortage problem by using compo• www.pellacommercial.com into a schoolhouse faced in vibrant bands nent shelving, the moveable, compressible of color, the project offers "spaces that are storage system employed in dense libraries. bright, straightforward, and ennobling to Different configurations of these units the children," stated Patkau, concluding afford three distinct scenarios for the non• gleefully, "It's cheap, it's dirty—it's good!" profit's limited square footage: That of a Behnisch added, "This was one of the few workspace, a conference room, and a projects that took into account sustainable gallery. Burns lauded the unorthodox use issues and daylighting," an element that the of ready-made components, adding, "The judges found to be surprisingly absent among project wasn't trying to hide or to celebrate the majority of architecture submissions. this in an overly dramatic way." James Timberlake, a judge in the projects Chaired by architect Peter Budeiri and category, shared this lament, finding that moderated by Michael Sorkin, the awards "only 15 to 20 percent of the projects dis• ceremony took place with an appropriate played any environmental responsibility, measure of formality, yet the jury's down- which is kind of shocking in this day and age." to-earth agenda was matched by an audi• Nevertheless, he and fellow jurors Luca ence that did not take itself too seriously to V \ hi Merlini and Mario Gooden had high acco• laugh. The opportunity arose when Hutton lades for an in-progress LEED project com• began to praise a project by Voorsanger missioned by the U.S. General Services Architects for "the clarity of its concept"— Administration: the Skidmore, Owings & and the projection screen promptly faded to Merrill-designed United States Census black. 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AIA-NYC 2005 AWARDS Brooklyn Museum Entry Pavilion Staten Island Olympic and Plaza Xing Restaurant, New York, NY Equestrian FaciHty ARCHITECTURE Brooklyn, NY LTL Architects Staten Island, NY Jurors: Stefan Behnisch, Polshek Partnership Architects Balmori. Sanders/Joel Sanders David Heymann, John Patkau Play Architect West Midtown Ferry Terminal Elmhurst, NY Honor Award* New York, NY Steven Harris Architects United States Census Bureau William J. Clinton William Nicholas Bodouva & Headquarters Presidential Center Associates Conservation Dept. at Suitland, MD Little Rock, AR Museum of Modern Art Skidmore, Owing & Merrill Polshek Partnership Architects Sculpture Garden Pavilion New York, NY Bridgehampton, NY Alspector Anderson Architects Hariem Hospital New Patient Frieder Burda Collection Museum Gluckman Mayner Architects Pavilion Baden Baden, Germany Carlos Miele Flagship Store New York, NY Richard Meier 8i Partners Architects Smith College Campus Center New York, NY Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Northhampton, MA Asymptote Architecture Bronx Charter School for the Arts Weiss/Manfredi Architects Barnard Nexus Bronx, NY Bloomberg LP Headquarters New York, NY weisz + yoes architecture + The Samuel Priest Rose Building New York, NY Weiss /Manfredi Architects urban design New York, NY Studios Architecture Diamond and Schmitt Architects Expanded Alliances: Whitney Water Purification Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Industry & Beyond Facility and Park Automated Trading Desk Center Claire Tow Pediatric Pavilion New York, NY South Central, CT Technology Campus New York, NY Marble Fairbanks Steven Holl Architects Mount Pleasant, SC Granary Associates Helfand Architecture Deerfield Academy, Science, Memorial to the Murdered Jews Mixed Greens Gallery Math & Technology Center of Europe The Porter House New York, NY Deerfield, MA Berlin, Germany New York, NY Leven Betts Studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Peter Eisenman Architects SHoP Architects O'Dwyer Gardens Merit Awards INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE Community Center Park Tower Saginaw Art Museum Addition Jurors: Carol Burns, Louisa Hutton, Brooklyn, NY Generic American City, Saginaw, Ml Ronald Krueck Edelman Sultan Knox Wood Architectural Record Piatt Byard Dovell White Architects LTL Architects
House on Eastern Long Island Human Rights in China PROJECTS Nassau County Centre Major Shelter Island, NY NY Headquarters, New York NY Jurors: Mario Gooden, Luca Merlini, Investment Study Tod Williams Biilie Tsien Architects Davis Brody Bond, LLP James Timberlake Nassau County, NY Fox & FowIe Architects De Hoftoren Elie Tahari Fashion Design Office The Hague, The Netherlands and Warehouse Nomadic Museum New York City Financial District Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Millburn, NJ New York, NY Streetscape.t-Security Voorsanger Architects Shigeru Ban Architects New York, NY Museo Picasso Malaga Rogers Marvel Architects Malaga, Spain 66 Restaurant CANOPY / RS.1 Gluckman Mayner Architects New York, NY Long Island City, NY John Jay College of Richard Meier & Partners Architects nARCHITECTS Criminal Justice, CUNY Klein Residence New York, NY Santa Fe, NM The Modern Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Ohihausen DuBois Architects New York, NY Bentel & Bentel Architects/Planners
AIA-NYS 2005 AWARDS Binghamton University Washington State Legislative Lower Manhattan Penthouse Appalachian Collegiate Center Building Rehabilitation New York, NY Jurors: Marvin J. Malecha, Binghamton, NY Olympia, WA Bone/Levine Architects Richard Green, Patricia Oliver Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Kuhn Architects Architecture & Engineering Price Family Holocaust Memorial Garden and Exhibition Klein Residence Hydron Midden-Nederiand Winrock International Salt Lake City, UT Santa Fe, NM Utrecht, The Netherlands Global Headquarters Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture Ohihausen DuBois Architects Rietveld Architects Little Rock, AK Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Schinderman Residence Sarah Lawrence College New York Hall of Science Cody WY Heimbold Visual Arts Center Queens, NY Rogers Marvel Architects Bronxville, NY Polshek Partnership Architects Armstrong Visitors Center Polshek Partnership Architects Lancaster, PA Weekend Retreat Rinker Hall-University of Rorida Audrey Matlock Architect East Hampton, NY Smith College Campus Center Gainesville, FL with Gensler Leroy Street Studio Architecture Northampton, MA Croxton Collaborative Architects Weiss/Manfredi Architects with Gould Evans Associates Burr Elementary School clarity. Fairfield, CT KeySpan Energy Video Conference Victorian Estate Conversion Shelving Rock Residence Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Room Prototypes A & B Berkshire, England Lake George. NY Brooklyn & Hicksville, NY Leroy Street Studio Architecture Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Chanel Tower Commercial/Industrial and DSDHA Ginza Tokyo, Japan SPaN-Stonely Pelsinski architects Swarthmore College Peter Marino + Associates Neukomm William J. Clinton Unified Science Center Presidential Center Swarthmore, PA Elie Tahari Fashion Design New York Stock Financial District Little Rock, AK Helfand Architecture with Offices and Warehouse Streetscape-f Security Polshek Partnership Architects Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture Millburn, NJ New York, NY & Engineering Voorsanger Architects Rogers Marvel Architects
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IMAGINING A MEMORIAL MUSEUM accounting of the day's events. Another continued from front page curatorial challenge is the sometimes iarring controversial Freedom Center. The surpris• juxtaposition of sublime architectural relics DESIMONE ing necessity of considering the landscape of with intimate family mementos and scrap- NEW YORK Ground Zero in light of the grade require• books of victims' lives. WTC remnants, such MIAMI ments of the Americans With Disabilities as the so-called "potato-chip" fragments SAN FRANCISCO Act is one small part of a new balance of the lobby-level fa(;;ade (now stored at between poetic and pragmatic, authentic JFK airport's Hangar 17), may be installed NEW HAVEN and interpretive, personal and political, that at plaza level or suspended below it. Victims' LAS VEGAS the museum will try to find. personal items will also be featured in a On the poetic end of the scale was work• Library of Memory, under the south tower
FISHER CENTER BARD COLLEGE shop panelist and architect Jordan Gruzen's "How do we ensure the emotive value summary of the schematic design for the of the un-curated artifact and minimize mu.seum presented by another paneli.st, Carl museum-voice?" asked Howard. Although Krebs of l)avis Brody Bond, a collaborator the September 15 session featured worthy on the memorial: "Descent, depth, Dante, bromides about procedures including town Hell, ascent, light, life." Between and below meetings, design reviews, and committees the watery WTC footprints of the twin everywhere, questions by stakeholders were towers, the preliminary scheme arranges a reminder that 9/11, whose events the mu.se• a 100,000-square-foot sequence of ramps, um seeks to curate, remains raw in memory. DeSimone Consulting Engineers, PLLC balconies, and overlooks that take the visitor One survivor questioned the apparent neat• is an award-winning, high-guality, down the 70-foot depth of the"bathtuh" ness of the exhibition narrative on response creative structural engineering firm WTC foundation to the steel column bases and recovery, comparing her "hellish" expe• sen/icing architects, owners and that have become deeply significant to many rience with FEM A and other agencies to developers. Now in our 35th year, victims' families. The exit path proceeds back those of today's victims of Hurricane Katrina. the firm continues to realize diverse AKRON ART MUSEUM up along the now-enclosed slurry wall that Another workshop attendee worried and unique projects and remains once was an iconic landscape element of the about the centralized entrance and exit to dedicated to tailoring resources to ever-fading Daniel Libeskind master plan. the museum—located in an above-ground meet client needs. DeSimone has an "The envelope is the critical feature," said pavilion to be developed in collaboration with extensive portfolio that includes Krebs, "one of the few ways to realize Freedom Center architects Snohetta. The residential, hospitality, high-rise, authentic places at the site." shared access and egress point was meant to cultural, commercial, academic, express, as Howard put it, "coming around healthcare and mixed-use. As for the ADA problem presented by chipped and uneven bedrock, Howard again to the beginning.""My boy died | in presented a schematic exhibit sequence along the WrCj," the attendee said,"because there which "the actual act of standing on that sur• was only one way out, and he couldn't get 35 YEARS AND GROWING face is reserved for special moments." He there." The question hinted at the challenges described a succession of viscerally immer• facing a museum who.se foundation may be sive representations of September 11, "like a built on bedrock, but whose meaning will MOHEGAN SUN RESORT 1 CASINO www.de-simone.com room with sirens of all first-re.sponder vehi• remain anything but set in stone. cles sounding," as well as more fact-based THOMAS OEMONCHAUX
DAMAGE CONTROL continued from front paqe protect the site's ancient oak trees, by spread• he said. "Everyone here has been friendly ing out 25,000 square feet among discrete and helpful, but I don't want to be in Baton pavilions which were built on 650 micro- Rouge any longer than I have to be." pilings. "We didn't want to lay a foundation Troyer may get his wish sooner than across the tree roots," explained Grain. The imagined. On Tuesday, September 13, he errant barge destroyed those efforts. could finally check on his home and office. Gehry said he "would fight to rebuild the Luckily, his Garden District property didn't city." Marjie Gowdy, executive director of the suffer much damage. He also got a look at museum, announced that the museum would Zemurray and was happy to report that it "plow full steam ahead" with construction, came through with no wind damage and though the institution (an affiliate of the only six inches of water on the first floor. Smithsonian), is financially shattered. (The In nearby Biloxi, Mississippi, another museumis accepting donations through its project wasn't so lucky. "It's like an aircraft website, www.georgeohr.org.) carrier parked on the site," said Joey Grain, "We can salvage all the buildings but the partner of Guild Hardy Architects in Biloxi. African American Gallery," said Grain. "The He's not referring to Gehry Partners' Ohr other structures were stripped down but the O'Keefe Museum of Art—five pavilions of infrastructure is okay." With 35 employees. shimmering metal pods and striking steel Guild Hardy is the largest firm on the canopies connected by undulating walkways. Mississippi coast and the only experienced He's referring to the Grand Casino barge, all with storm damage control. six stories and several football fields of it, One of his partners was already meeting which now sits on top of one of the pavilions, with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour as the nearly completed Gallery of African well as philanthropists and other designers, American Art. including Andres Duany of Duany Plater Only a chimney locates where the historic Zyberk, to cook up ideas to "build back a Pleasant Reed house—the centerpiece of context" to the coast that has been wiped the museum complex—once stood. Nearby, clean of its neighborhoods and character four stories of angled steel scrubbed red Lloyd Bray has kept close ties with the and raw—what was to be the Center for area since he graduated from Tulane Ceramics—is the only recognizable remnant University's School of Architecture. He of the $30 million project, which was to be warns outside architects not to see this as a DES completed in July 2006. business opportunity: "I hope there's not TRENGTH B lots of architects who come in from outside As executive architect of the project. Grain IIWIIW lATES, INC called up Gehry's office to tell them, "The without any respect for history or contextu- >n:ri\(, i.\(ii\i i k> good news is you have more square footage alization," he said. "It will be difficult to do work here unless you were part of that cul• www.w .11.com in your gallery." The bad news: "The neigh• ture and understand it in more than some Vmriich Colhyt . Aadi w/, (212) .•)(." ^"11(1 borhood, the context, is gone." The museum's architects had gone to extreme measures to ersatz Disney-esque way." jerry portwood 00 3 O LU
While the current project is just a first stab, Suna is already planning a larger, publicly SILVERCUP STUDIO BECOMES HOME TO CITY'S LARGEST GREEN ROOF accessible green roof at Silvercup West a riverside expansion being designed by Richard Rogers Partnership. Suna promises details about that project later this fall, once city officials have reviewed land-use documents. This project is also just the tip of the iceberg for Balmori. The noted landscape architect, View From the Top who also designed a green roof for Battery Park City's Solaire, the award-winning green resi• dential tower designed by Rafael Pelli (Balmori's son), has been pressing to plant the tops of Long Island City's lofts and factories for years. She has even published a study envisioning 667 green acres on the industrial zone's skyline. "You would have something the size of Prospect Park," she said. "All this public or recreational space would be fantastic." For Balmori, the Silvercup roof promises ample mystery. She selected plant species that would require relatively littleTLC—necessary given its location, just off the exhaust-enshrouded Queensborough Bridge. As is typical of green roofs, the plantings had to be set in shallow beds of lightweight soilto minimize the load on the roof and the possibility of complicated long-term maintenance. Her supplier, Cedar Knoll Farms of Maryland, sold tough succulents called sedums. For the shallow soil, Balmori bought plastic boxes that were easy and cheap to install. This solution explains the roof's Tetrislike grammar of boxes and lines. The pattern was driven in part by the location of the colossal air-conditioning mounds, which had to be left bare. The result is a virtual kaleidoscopic of color "We played with different shades of sedum: yellow, a light green, a silvery green which is practically blue, a dragon red which is very strong," Balmori said. "If you don't do it in a very geometric form, it's a mess." Balmori also designed patches of boldly colored nylon mesh to be stretched among the plantings. "We did that in part to extend the surface we were covering and to catch your eye so you can see it more easily," she explained. Unfortunately, not everybody will be able to see the roof up close. The planted sections are too vulnerable. Already, those monitoring the roof are wondering how maintenance Many eco-conscious architects confront a nettlesome question: Does your design succeed workers and pilfering pigeons will affect plant life. "Research has to stop and you have to go by inspiring others, or is it cost-effective? When the project calls itself New York City's largest into experimentation," said Balmori. The Clean Air Communities program has enlisted the green roof and the client is Silvercup Studios, where HBO films parts of The Sopranos, you Earth Pledge Foundation to track Silvercup's stormwater absorption and energy efficiency can guess that visual impact drives the design. But hard science drives the plan. for a year While Balmori bemoaned the paperwork that state agencies imposed, she said that Diana Balmori Associates unveiled its massive, 35,000-square-feet green roof on top of the data collected can help other building owners plan and tend their own green roofs. Silvercup Studios this September, just six weeks after planting began. Underneath the mas• Some neighbors are already accepting the challenge. Gratz Industries, a Pilates equipment sive Silvercup sign in Long Island City, a field of greens, reds, and yellows have sprung to life. maker across the street from Silvercup, has hired Balmori to replace its roof with a planted The project began in 2003, when the state awarded $2 million to the nonprofit Clean Air one. And by the time Silvercup West breaks ground, development team members will know Communities to promote clean-air projects. Stuart Match Suna, CEO of Silvercup Studios, enough about species' toughness and irresistibility to pigeons. "Plants will be growing over offered his facility to serve as a case study for examining the ecological benefits of green each other and you'll find that this one is so much more aggressive than others," said roofs. Considerably more hard-working and engineered than your typical rooftop garden, Balmori. "In every climate, you cannot foretell exactly what's going to happen." a green roof can lower air-conditioning bills, reduce urban heat island effect, and absorb For Suna, that uncertainty promises more buzz. "It will build its own publicity as it grows," stormwater that would otherwise carry pollutants to natural bodies of water. he said, alec appelbaum
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New York City Economic Development Corporation Redevelopment should serve to reactivate the Site for ("NYCEDC") is seeking proposals for the redevelopment residents and visitors, and provide linkages to several strong of the National Ughthouse Harbor Site (the "Site") as a redevelopment initiatives in the St. George area including the high-quality mixed-use development. Portions of the Site newly renovated Staten Island Ferry Terminal, the Staten that are closest to the waterfront are available for long-term Island Yankees Stadium, the new Courthouse and the lease; the remaining majority of the Site is available for Stapleton Waterfront. purchase. While existing buildings must be preserved, there are opportunities for new development on three areas A Site Information session and Site Visit are scheduled within the Site. for Monday. October 17. 2005. To attend, please RSVP to Anifia Binns at (212) 618-5721 on or before Monday. Featuring outstanding views of the Manhattan skyline and the October 10. 2005. New York Harbor, this 10-acre waterfront property is located approximately 1/3 of a mile southeast of the Staten Island Detailed submission guidelines and requirements are Ferry Terminal and is connected to the terminal via the outlined in the RFP, available as of Monday, September 26, St. George esplanade. Bay Street borders the Site to the west 2005. The RFP can be picked up Monday-Friday from and Upper New York Bay to the northeast. Staten Island 9:30am-4:30pm at NYCEDC's offices on the 6th floor of Borough Hall is located across Bay Street (at Borough Place) to 110 William StreeL New York, NY (between Fulton & John the north of the Site. streets). For more information, and to request or download Photo: National Archives a copy of the RFR call (212) 312-3969 or visit The Site served as the center for lighthouse operations in http://www.nycedccom/lighthouseharborRFP RESPONSES the United States for over 100 years. The intent of the ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 4:00 p.m. on Friday. December Request for Proposals is to reactivate this waterfront property 16. 2005. Please submit five (5) sets of your proposal to: New York City Economic Development with residential, retail and or commercial uses; to preserve the NYCEDC. 110 William Street 6th Floor. New York, NY I I Corporation histonc landmarked structures; and to incorporate plans for 10038. Attention: Maryann Catalano. Agency Chief the National Lighthouse Museum. Contracting Officer 00 o LLl
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Visitors to the website of the DUMBO-based firm Delia Vallc + Bernheimer "We wanted to look at other business models as well—we started DV+B LU Design (DV+B) will find a statement that speaks volumes about the way they Development to generate projects for ourselves, and we are working on a line of s: bathroom fixtures with the Italian manufacturer Rifra." DV +B had been speci• l-H approach their work: "A little honesty, to start: we (architects, that is) dont LU reinvent materials." Not to say that other architecture firms aren't honest, but fying the company's products, and Rifra approached them about breaking in to H the straightforward tone conveys an essential element of the culture of the office the New York market. The partners realized that to do so, the company would q: and the work they do. have to provided fixtures aimed at the much smaller scale of New York apart• LU DV+B began in 1996 with a winning competition scheme for the plaza of a ments. Two years ago, the firm invested in a CNC milling machine, and have + federal building in San Francisco, and officially opened shop in 1998. Since been using it to develop the line for Rifra, and office furniture for themselves. then, principals and former Washington University classmates fared Delia The honesty carries through to their description of the firm's hierarchy: -J Valle and Andrew Bernheimer have developed their firm into one that encom• "Jared and I get to wear Burger King crowns," joked Bernheimer. "And everyone -J < passes architecture, real estate development, and product design. "Our growth else has a paper hat from McDonald's." > has been steady—maybe even slow—but deliberate in terms of the clients we ANNE GUINEY < take on and the work we do," said Delia Valle. "It has allowed us the freedom to -J diversify and have fewer clients at once."
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WEST CHELSEA CONDOMINIUM A Forlhc last lew years, DV+B has been working to develop its own projects (see "Architects Turned Developers," 00 AS 13_7.13.2005) including a housing development in Brooklyn. Their largest New York project to dale is a con• M dominium tower in West Chelsea, which is currently in design. Becau.se the neighborhood is in the process of an > architecture boom, with projects by Richard Meier, Frank CIchry, Lindy Roy, and Dillcr Scofidio + Renfro, DV+B was wary of di-signing a building that would seem to "shake its fist at the sky," as Bernheimer put it. And because o of zoning regulations, the building's envelope was heavily predetermined, so they began to focus on its skin.
"It is near the High Line, and wc had to think about that without being direct and kitschy," Bernheimer expluined,"so we started the process by looking at trains and their residue of steam clouds." In the steam cloud— thick and opaque as it comes out of a smokestack, and then dissipating into almo.st nothing—DV+B found the CO generative idea for the building's skin and a solution to the problem of privacy in what will be a heavily-trafficked neighborhood. The firm is .still in process of developing a curtain wall system of perforated metal and fritted glass that will grow increasingly transparent as it ri.ses. The ground level is currently planned as gallery space, with common space on the second level and residential spaces above.
23 BEEKMAN PLACE When a contractor DV+B had worked with called about a project on Beekman Place, the two immediately real• ized that it was Paul Rudolph's triplex apartment. "We were thrilled and terrified," said Bernheimer. One of New York City's most storied contemporary apartments had basically been gutted under the direction of another firm— the Lucite handrails and clear-bottomed tub were already gone, for example—and DV+B was asked to make it work again as an apartment. 'Ihc cUents didn't know of Rudolph or his work, but according to Delia Valle, were intrigued by the space and its idio-syncrasies. "It is an in.sane place," said Bernheimer,"entirely for and about one person."
The .scope of work included a complete restoration of the building's envelope, with the exception of the south side, which is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit with a neighbor. "In many ways, it was a detailing project—we didn't move any walls, but had to make the plumbing, HVAC, and electrical systems fimction," said Delia Valle. "Most of our design work is in the cabinetry and bathrooms." Taking on a project like this was daunting, though. "The original was a loving target: existing photographs didn't accord with the built reality, and we found drawings under the sheetrock,"Bcrheimer explained. "We had to pick up on his .spirit rather than strive for a perfect restoration, which would have been impossible." Continuous renovation was clearly a part of that spirit. "Rudolph treated it as u lab," said Bernheimer. "He apparently didn't think of it as a permanent place, or felt that it should be untouchable." o o LU
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On October 7, the Center for Architecture unveils Field Experiments in art-architecture-landscape: Hombroich spaceplacelalhdn exhibition that examines the conversion of a former NATO base on a patch of land known as Hombroich, near Cologne,Germany, into a Utopia for art and architecture. Decommissioned in 1990, just after German reunification, the former missile base has been occupied since 1995 by the arts nonprofit the Insel Hombroich Foundation, started by art collector Karl-Heinrich Miillen With echoes of Marfa, Texas—the remote military-base- turned-art-preserve conceived in 1979 by Donald Judd— Insel Hombroich will see to the transformation of 650 acres of rolling green fields into a showcase of works by artists THE POST-MILITARY CONTEXT and architects, including Alvaro Siza, Shigeru Ban, Frei Otto, and Tadao Ando. Named "Insel," or island, for its remote location, Insel Hombroich was purchased by Miiller to house his vast HOMBROICH, AN EX-NATO MISSILE BASE NEAR COLOGNE, GERMANY, HAS BEEN private art collection. Shortly after, Miiller enlisted sculptor TURNED INTO A PUBLIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE PARK. AND IN THE DEMILITARIZED Erwin Heerich to create a series of pavilions, housing galleries, residences, meeting spaces, and a cafeteria that ZONE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA, A DESIGN-DRIVEN SUBDIVISION BLOSSOMS. have become the Museum Insel Hombroich. Furthermore, THE ANSWER TO POST-MILITARY LANDSCAPES SEEMS TO BE CONTEMPORARY many of die site s rocket silos and existing administrative ARCHITECTURE. ANDREW YANG REPORTS. buildings have been converted into artists' studios and resi-
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denccs. By the time Raimund Abraham was asked to create the first architect-designed structure for the site in 1997, Muller became committed To the idea of developing a col• lection of art buildings created by an international coterie of talents, l ie asked Danish artist Per Kirkeby to design a bus stop, train station, and eight additional buildings and pavilions, which were completed in 2000. Since then, Mu.seum Insel Hombroich has invited 16 artists and architects to submit concepts for structures that would hou.se art and engage the land.scape. Each project was allotted 40 acres-with a central design requirement that they occupy only 10 percent of their plot. The remaining 90 percent is to be devoted to nature, such as woods, meadows, or landcaped areas. The museum soon realized that it needed a master plan to organize the new projects, which will be pha.sed in over the next 30 years. That task fell to Barbara Hoidn and Wilfried Wang, from the Berlin-based firm Hoidn Wang Partners, who al.so curated the e.xhibition at the Center for Architecture. The prospect of redeveloping a former military site for artistic u.se has great practical as well as symbolic value. In much the same way that indu.strial spaces have become ver• satile venues for artists' studios and art galleries, a decom- mis.sioned military base is ripe with opportunities for its sheer expan.se, isolation, and open-endedness."The advan• tage of Hombroich is that it offers complete freedom," said Hoidn. "The artists were left to interpret the land.scape as they plea.sed." Moreover, the program's emphasis on nature and creativity has resulted in designs that bring new life to grounds that were once devoted to weapons of destruction. In 2000, Marianne Langen, another art collector, sought out Muller to house her and her husband's collection on the Hombroich site. With his guidance, .she hired Ando to design the Langen Foundation building, a concrete box within a glass box, floating on a shallow pool of water. The building, completed in 2004, adheres to the architectural vision set out for Hombroich. More new .structures could evolve at Hombroich in this manner, as needed. Hombroich is one of the most ambitious examples of how art and architecture are being leveraged as tools for revitalization, as culture steadily replaces indu.stry as a basis for the new economy. Nearby, in Duisberg, Emscher Park, a vibrant recreational attraction was forged from a dead industrial zone. The hope for Hombroich is that it also becomes an ideal environment for cultural production. To provide a global context for Hombroich, the Center
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Left: In Heyri, South Korea, the community house was guidelines. With 80 dramatic, assertive buildings already com• For Architecture will present Iwo smaller exhibitions—one on designed by the town's masterplanners, Jonq Kyu Kim Marfa, the home of the Chinati Foundation, and the other on pleted by firms including Minsuk Cho, Studio Himma, Yekong and Jun Sunq Kim. Right: The Hansook Cheong Memorial, an architecturally driven art settlement in Heyri, South Korea Architects, and SHoP, Heyri is already a showcase of progres• a gallery devoted to a late novelist, was designed by (both of which I helped to organize). Marfa, which opened in sive architecture, and a snapshot of what tabula rasa planning Moongyu Choi of Ga.A Architects. 1986, and Heyri, which started con.struction in 2000, could not be can produce in Asia. Glass, concrete, and steel are the favored more different in scale and scope from Hombroich, yet they all palette among the residences, galleries, film studio, retail shops, share similarities such as optimism and faith in the power of art and schools that now occupy the site. An additional 310 lots are and architecture to transform the histories and fates of their sites. slated for development. Whereas the art completely transforms Marfa's land.scape Hombroich, Marfa, and Heyri may be miles—and worlds— and attempts to make the architecture secondary or virtually away from the constrained geography of New York City. invisible on the site, the buildings in Heyri are dominant in the However, there is one local site that shares a sitnilar, pending rolling hills of the Gyeonggi-do province in the demilitarized transformation: Governors Island. The 172-acrc island, which zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea. In the late- has served as a military installation since 1776, was transferred Andrew Yang will moderate a panel on the development of in 2003 to the U.S. Department of the Interior and is now man• 1990s, as the relationship between the two countries began to art and architecture communities, at 1:00 p.m. during ease, and the DMZ became less of a contested .site, the govern• aged by the National Park Service. It is currently in a process of the Center for Architecture's Design In Marathon, on ment .sought approaches to develop this lush terrain, which is being planned for arts, tourism, entertainment, and other uses. Saturday, October 8. Speakers include Christiane Zangs less than an hour by train from Seoul. A group of community- "The freedom seen at Insel Hombroich comes from not being on Insel Hombroich, Jun Sung Kim and Jong Kvu Kim minded Koreans, led by the chairman of a large Korean art- afraid to experiment," said Hoidn. What can New York learn on Heyri, Joseph Thompson on Mass MOCA, and Gerhard Seltmann on Emscher Park. For a full schedule, from Hombroich? "Give quality a chance," advised Hoidn. publishing hou.se, acquired the land from the government and visit aiany.org/architectureweek. conceived of a community where individuals could buy lots "And don't compromise too early." and build their own houses—according to certain architectural ANDREW YANG IS AN ASSOCIATE EDITOR AT AN.
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Working with the city is tough! It must not be easy getting permissions. This year's tour of an MTA substation took three and a half years of determined phone calls! This MTA site is built in the early 20"' century, with detailed aged House Specials
< brick—but it's also hidden. So we're revealing that. And people will get to see True to its brochure, OHNY offers a chance to explore how power for the system is distributed. "substations, skyscrapers, lighthouses, lookouts, crypts, clubs, monuments, mansions, hotels, landfills, You seem to have a lot for infrastructure lodges, factories, fireboats. farmhouses, and so much buffs. Are you one? more." Culled from this year's offering of 150 sites, which here are our recommendations of the high, the I guess I do have that weakness. There's low, and the in-between, a turn-of- the-century power plant at Pratt, which is great for gear heads. Over the BRONX past 40 years it's been meticulously Edgar Allen Poe Cottage We've always wanted to see restored, and it has bright red generation where he dreamed up bricking up the Cask of w equipment. The original designers were Amontillado. 2 so proud of it they built a viewing Old Croton Aqueduct Walk along the old municipal waterway and then climb a tall turn of the century ° gallery. Designers might not think of the tower. inside of a power plant, but the design of OPEN CITY the equipment is neat. A fringe benefit is BROOKLYN learning how things work. We also show Greenwood Cemeti This year's visit includes a the 59"' Street Marine Transfer Station, site-specific performance tour featuring live music, NOW IN ITS THIRD YEAR, OPENHOUSENEWYORK where much of the city's recycled paper dance, and visual installations. IS FAST BECOMING A NEW YORK CITY INSTITUTION, goes. Architecturally, the structure is Pratt Institute Power Phmt Meticulously restored array of gears, knobs, and power in the making. not noteworthy but it's interesting because ORGANIZED BY ARCHITECT SCOTT LAUER, THE TWO- Gowanus Canal Canoe Tour It's amazing to think of DAY EVENT OPENS THE DOORS TO COUNTLESS SITES it describes an important civic process. seeing blue crabs and the black-crowned night heron THROUGHOUT NEW YORK CITY. TESS TAYLOR SAT in this polluted but charming tidal creek. You have a lot of spaces with extra• DOWN WITH UUER TO FIND OUT HOW IT ALL BEGAN. MANHATTAN ordinary views. 59th Street Marine Transfer Station The plant Well, I love to climb. And I love views. loads 500 tons of paper a day onto barges bound for During the eight years architect Scott How did openhousenewyork start? The view from the Croton Reservoir is Staten Island. Tours given by the NYC Department of Lauer spent working in London, he vol• Well, when I came back from London, I pretty special, as is the roof deck of the Sanitation. unteered year after year at Open House just assumed someone would take it on. arsenal in Central Park. I'm excited about Cherner/O'Neill Residence Two-story carriage house London, an event that offers the public I kept saying "New York needs this. inviting visitors to tour the grounds of showcases notable art and work by Norman Cherner. rare access to 500 years of urban archi• When is someone going to do this?" 1 the hospitals on Ellis Island's far end! Ellis Island's South Sidf. The hospital grounds where tecture. When he returned to New York in waited but it wasn't happening. I guess They've been shut for 50 years. over a million immigrants were treated between 1900 and 1954 is open to the public for the first time in over 2001, he was intent on bringing the event 1 realized that I had to take it on. That was 50 years. to the city he loves. After two years of in 2001.1 began to make phone calls. It seems that you are broadening open• Kushner Home Architect Adam Kushner renovated phone calling, letter-writing, board- Initially I got this sense of skepticism from housenewyork to appeal to families, the top two floors of a West Village townhouse into building, and sponsorship-seeking people—after all, 1 had no money, staff, with more programming aimed at kids. his home, a showcase of inventive salvaging. (nearly single-handedly), he launched track record, or significant volunteer base. The kids' component is important. See how Piano's first New York building is coming openhousenewyork (OHNY).The inau• And people thought. How can we open We want to send people away with an gural 2003 event was a weekend-long buildings to the public in the shadow of along: Models and drawings and a talk by architect appreciation of design—^the event can be Serge Drouin. affair that drew over 45,000 people to 85 9/11? People suggested we start small. a great teaching tool, too. Besides, kids Museum of Modern Art Conservation Department: sites as diverse as the city itself, ranging But 1 thought, we're New Yorkers. We also bring their parents. A rare back view of Tanguchi's structure, complete from the historic John Jay Harvey don't start small. with a tour by the head conservator. Fireboat to a rooftop greenhouse at What are your favorite sites this year? MTA Substation: It was just a matter of time before the Barnard College. MTA would relent and allow a tour of this non-work• How do you find sites? Well, it's a range. It really depends on ing, turn-of-the-century substation on West 53rd Street. Since then, the extravaganza has Well, we've got a lot of advisers. We look what you like. There's a tour of the grown, with more than 100 sites last year for guides and speak with historians, MoMA conservation studios, which the QUEENS visited by over 50,000 people. The High civic arts organizations, and city council public rarely gets to see. Le Roy Street The Hindu Temple Society of America Built according Line had 2.000 visitors, while Gracie members. We love for people to come Studio is worth checking out, for their to ancient codes, the carved temple features shrines Mansion and City Hall each saw 1,700 to us with suggestions—the quirkier, the space and work they do. 1 would encour• made of stones shipped from India. people flock to its doors. In its short better We want to represent the different age architects to look closely at our Jacob Riis Bathhouse: Oceanfront recreation, brought to us courtesy of Robert Moses. A chance to explore existence, the nonprofit organization sensibilities. We like to work with non• series of open dialogues. It's a chance to newly refurbished bathhouse and grounds. has gained important support from the profits. There are so many fantastic speak directly with architects around the National Endowment for the Arts, New organizations out there doing interesting city to address a wide range of issues. STATEN ISLAND York Council for the Humanities, New things—it's definitely a perk to get to For example, Serge Drouin, an architect St. George Theater A new renovation of an ornate York State Council on the Arts, NYC support them. But part of the time, we sit from Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Vaudeville Theater includes ornate windows and over• Department of Cultural Affairs, and Target. around with magazines, cutting up things will be discussing the New York Times sized paintings of bullfighters. Fresh Kills Landfill Trash turned into civic treasure. A This year, OHNY introduces Open like The Architect's Newspaper Company building. bus tour of the new wetlands and parkland conversion. Dialogues, a series of on-site talks with Only one tour. Call early. architects and designers, as well as a full- What makes people want to come? Do you personally visit all the sites? fledged children's program that includes Part of it is voyeurism. I think that deep Well, I'd like to but 1 realized pretty Clockwise from upper left: MTA Substation, tours, workshops, and even an architec• down people have a natural curiosity quickly that it's impossible. Kushner Home, MoMa Conservation Department. tural curriculum targeted at teachers. about each other and how their neighbors New sponsorship from radio stations live, work, and play. We all want to see What will you be doing over the WABC and WNYC promises to publicize into others' windows. This year the weekend? the event to an even larger audience. Kushner apartment is really neat. It has Ask me on October 7""! It's overwhelm• "This year the program is beginning to real subway doors! It's cool to work with ing, there's so many cool people and look like what we dreamed it would be," private homeowners—people who use places to see that 1 can never decide. Lauer said. their means to realize their dreams and TESS TAYLOR IS A CAMBRIDGE, In his spare time ("the other five days that's inspiring. We'd love people to walk MASSACHUSETTS-BASED DESIGN WRITER. a week," he joked), he consults at away from openhousenewyork empow•
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Gehry left the marriage (on Wechsler's advice, Gehry says), his creativity surged. Frankie Wechsler says envious architects watched Gehry change, and then asked Wechsler for therapy. Wechsler turned them all down. He Goes to tells Pollack that there has to be something behind the floodgates for there to be any dif• ference when the floodgates open. "I didn't make Frank Gehry famous. He made me Hollywood famous," says the therapist, shrugging. Did a bit of the aw shucks Gehry rub off? Sketches of Frank Gehry Pollack's film includes detractors, unusual Directed by Sydney Pollack, 83 min. for films on architects that tend to be infomer- (Mirage Enterprises/Thirteen-WNET/ cials. Hal Foster of Princeton repeatedly faults American Masters) World Premiere, Toronto International Gehry for designing "spectacle," and Gehry Film Festival, September 8-17 himself cites critics who say he's branding himself into "logo-tecture." In a bon mof dis• tilled from a long interview, Julian Schnabel Toronto seemed the right venue to premiere producer as well as a director, never studied Like any movie made by a Hollywood direc• calls those critics "flies on the neck of a lion." Frank Gehry's latest film role: Not only was architecture. On camera he's an eager stu• tor, this film centers on a character. Gehry Sketches of Frank Gehry alms broadly and he born there, but his massive expansion of dent, ready to hear a master explain the craft. is shown in his office, visiting his finished is likely to be shown widely, judging from the the Art Gallery of Ontario opens in 2008. Pollack brings something special to the film, buildings (there are fewer than ten of them), amount of interest commercial distributors There are dozens of Gehry documentaries, besides a veteran's rhythm and composition, and on the streets of Los Angeles, reminisc• showed at the film festival. But events may yet this is the first by a Hollywood director. evidenced in elegant sequences that study ing on the early days, before celebrity. In have already overtaken it, a risk that faces any Shot mostly on handheld digital cameras, it's the texture of Gehry's materials and the shift• Sketches, he comes across as the familiar documentary about a living artist. Gehry's the first documentary by Sydney Pollack, who ing effects of light on them. The director, like "aw shucks" man of modesty who shrugs at Ohr O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, spent five years on and off on the project— Gehry, is a creative artist in a collaborative fame. The film also features interviews with Mississippi, devoted to the work of the influ• longer than he normally devotes to a feature and commercial field. And for each of them, friends and clients—Michael Eisner, Thomas ential ceramicist George Ohr, was damaged film. Pollack's most recent feature is The the creative process involves projects that Krens, Ed Ruscha—which point to another severely by Hurricane Katrina and the trees Interpreter, the first film to be shot on location require huge amounts of money from some• Gehry, stubborn and competitive. framing the structures (part of Gehry's con• at the United Nations. (His other films include one other than himself. Gehry and Pollack Yet another side of Gehry comes from his cept for the ensemble) were knocked down. They Shoot Horse Don't They, Tootsie, and both depend on clients. Gehry recalls Pollack psychotherapist. Dr. Milton Wechsler. Gehry We'll see Gehry tackle that problem in a sequel.
Out of Africa.) telling him years before that he sought that joined his star-studded group therapy ses• ART CRITIC DAVID D'ARCY IS REGULAR Sketches of Frank Gehry is built around tiny space in a commercial practice in which sion decades ago, and wouldn't speak in the CONTRIBUTOR TO THE ART NEWSPAPER AND AN. conversations between Pollack and the archi• he could produce something of quality. Gehry group for more than a year. Wechsler, blind tect, who had asked the director make the says that architecture, for him, is aiming at and in his 90s, recalls a younger Gehry in an WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM documentary. Pollack, a Hollywood actor and that same tiny window. unhappy marriage, lacking confidence. Once
Marcus Garvey Park Village, ble for building Kallman and path residents would take from the project because he promised COMMUNITY Brooklyn, 1975. McKinnell's Boston City Hall, the their car to their unit so the journey Logue he could deliver an exhibition Prudential Center, and conceiving was easy but also a pleasure. on the UDC at the MoMA. Historian STARTS the Faneuil Hall/Ouincy Market Richard Meier's 1972 Twin Parks Kenneth Frampton, who taught at Restoration. In New York he select• North East project in the Bronx is a the institute, claimed that Eisenman AT HOME ed some of the best architectural 523-unit complex of red and brown had little interest "in the nitty-gritty firms of the period to design and brick in the relentless commercially of public housing," so he himself build projects all over the state: constructed landscape of the Bronx. set about designing the project. He Policy and Design for Housing: Richard Meier, Charles Gwathmey A break from the urban renewal brought to it an "interest in low-rise Lessons of the Urban and Robert Siegel, John Johnson, projects of the previous two decades. high-density European housing" Development Corporation, 1968-1975 James Stewart Polshek, Jose Luis Twin Parks is an infill project meant and the result is one of the best Center for Architecture Sert, Giovanni Pasanella, landscape to link together the broken blocks rowhouse developments this side 536 LaGuardia PI. architect Dan Kiley, and most inter• of its poor neighborhood. Meier of the London borough of Camden. Closed September 10 estingly, the Institute for Architecture believed that the requirements of Built at a density of 50 units per and Urban Studies (lAUS),founded the project meant he "couldn't make acre and based on the "defensible in 1967 by Peter Eisenman. Most of a better unit" so he focused on space" theories of Oscar Newman, In 1968 Governor Nelson Rockefeller the UDC was born in late 1966 by these architects had never built integrating innovative community the rowhouses had stoops leading rammed a bill through the New Rockefeller to help New York State's low-cost residences but, according public space into the complex. to a second-floor landing where York State legislature allowing his cities, towns, and even small vil• to Robert Siegel, they appreciated The space opens through the two units were accessed—one up, new housing program, the Urban lages that were losing population— the chance "to think conceptually undercroft of the buildings to the the other down—to a garden apart• Development Corporation (UDC),to particularly their middle class. about housing." The result surrounding community, inviting ment. Though the UDC, according override local zoning codes in order These problems took on added was some of the most advanced them and making Twin Parks less to Frampton, forced expensive to build housing for low- and mod• urgency in 1968 when the Kerner and creative American housing "exclusive." This and other UDC changes to the design, it is still erate-income residents. Local Commission reported that the schemes since the 1920s design of projects were meant to help pull up a brilliant example of what public politicians deeply resented this act, nation was "moving toward two Sunnyside Gardens in Queens. their surrounding areas, but for housing can be given intelligent so it was just a matter of time before societies, one black, one white— Three of the most architecturally complex reasons, this never hap• design and public commitment. the UDC was brought down. It was separate and unequal." It warned intriguing of these housing devel• pened; today the space is sealed off Since the UDC's demise in 1975, dissolved in 1975 and its remnants that "unless conditions were reme• opments—the Pines of Perinton, by a fence. In the informative video the quality of public-private hous• became the Empire Development died, the country faced a 'system Twin Parks North East, and Marcus component of the exhibition, Meier ing construction has been on Corporation. Still, in those short of apartheid' in its major cities." Garvey Park Village—were includ• said that he thought architects could steady decline. In Eisenman's opin• seven years, the UDC managed The nationwide riots in April of ed in the exhibition. The Pines of have been more "thoughtful about ion, the type of housing created to build 35,000 units of affordable 1968 following the assassination Perinton by Gwathmey Siegel is making linkages in these projects," by the UDC could "only have housing, providing what Kenneth of Martin Luther King, Jr., seemed a sleek, flat-roofed, white-walled, and added that the UDC was never happened in the 1970s, when Frampton—one of the designers to affirm the report's assessment. modern housing complex in what given a chance to learn from its public agencies had more power of the UDC's Marcus Garvey Park Rockefeller decided that the UDC was a small rural village but is now mistakes to create better housing. than developers" and "a culture Village in Brooklyn—has called would become his answer to these "a brief glimmer of a culture of a suburb, near Rochester. Its 560 Perhaps the strangest architec• of experimentation" existed. The problems and he convinced Ed housing." townhouse and garden apartment tural collaboration in American consequences of Hurricane Katrina Logue, the brilliant and hard-nosed units (120 forthe elderly) were public housing was that between may force us once again to look at The history of the UDC was the director of the Boston Redevelop• arrayed in four cul-de-sacs, each the UDC and lAUS. In his video• large-scale housing for the poor. subject of an important exhibition ment Authority, to come to New with its own semi-enclosed garden taped interview, Eisenman recalled We need to look no further than the and several lectures at the Center York to head the corporation. In and parking bays. The architects that lAUS, which operated as a UDC to find this template. Boston, Logue had been responsi• for Architecture. The concept for spent some time considering the "theoretical enclave," was given WILLIAM MENKINC IS AN EDITOR OF AM. >- 00
THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER OCTOBER 5, 2005 in SATURDAY 8 Teddy Cruz OCTOBER FRIDAY 14 o EVENTS SYMPOSIUM SD/TJ: Border Urbanisms, o WEDNESDAY 5 openhousenewyork City Legacies and Relational Architectures r\j LECTURES Various locations Street Magazine 6:30 p.m. Darren Petrucci throughout New York City Pratt Institute Columbia GSAPP LU Amenity Infrastructure www.ohny.org 144 West 14th St. Wood Auditorium m 4:30 p.m. www.pratt.edu 113 Avery Hall o Syracuse University School Design-in Marathon www.arch.columbia.edu I— of Architecture 1:00 p.m. EXHIBITION OPENINGS \ 108 Slocum Hall Center for Architecture Kenny Scharf SYMPOSIUM o www.soa.syr.edu 536 LaGuardia PI. Superpop & Closet #24 New York Comes Back: www.aiany.org Paul Kasmin Gallery Major Ed Koch and the City Felicity D. Scott 293 10th Ave. 4:00 p.m. Ecological Mutations SUNDAY 9 www.paulkasmingallery.com Museum of the City of New 6:30 p.m. FILM York Columbia GSAPP Films! Films! Films! Donald Moffett 1220 5th Ave. Wood Auditorium 12:00 p.m. Marianne Boesky Gallery www.mcny.org 113 Avery Hall Center for Architecture 535 West 22nd St. www.arch.columbia.edu 536 LaGuardia PI. www.marianneboesk EXHIBITION OPENING www.aiany.org gallery.com Between Representation Matthias Sauerbruch and Abstraction Recent Works MONDAY 10 SATURDAY 15 Museum of Modern Art 6:30 p.m. LECTURES EXHIBITION OPENING II West 53rd St. Cornell University School Kurt Forster Keith Tyson www.moma.org of Architecture Surface Tension in Geno-Pheno Sibley Hall, Ithaca Contemporary Architecture PaceWildenstein THURSDAY 20 www.architecture.cornell.edu 6:30 p.m. 534 West 25th St. LECTURES Yale School of Architecture www.pacewildenstein.com Robert H. Siegel THURSDAY 6 180 York St., New Haven 6:00 p.m. Pratt Institute LECTURE www.architecture.yale.edu EVENT SANTIAGO CALTRAVA: SCULPTURE IN ARCHITECTURE Higgins Hall Michael Webb Architectural Walk Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue www.pratt.edu Concerning Motion Three Conversations: 2:00 p.m. October 18- March 5 6:00 p.m. Housing and City at Columbia Municipal Art Society 457 Madison Ave. Ronald Shiffman City College 70 Years After the New Deal The long-awaited exhibition Santiago Calatrava: Sculpture in www.mas.org Beyond Design and Form: Shepard Hall 10:30 a.m. Architecture aims to show how much of the Spanish architect Towards an Urbanism Convent Ave. and 138th St. Columbia GSAPP and engineer's very public design work is influenced by his Wood Auditorium of Meaning www.ccny.cuny.edu SUNDAY 16 very personal art work. Works like Running Torso (pictured 113 Avery Hall 6:00 p.m. SYMPOSIUM above), a series of marble cubes balanced by wire, predate his www.arch.columbia.edu City College Renewing the Urban residential highrise at 80 South Street Seaport by nearly ten Shepard Hall The Automated Home: Landscape: The Council years. The show will include 12 architectural models, includ• Convent Ave. and 138th St. Technology and TUESDAY 11 on Tall Buildings and ing the transportation hub at the World Trade Center and the www.ccny.cu ny.ed u Interior Design LECTURE Urban Habitats Athens Olympic Sport Complex, as well as two dozen sculp• New York School Will Alsop, Daniel Libeskind, Kenneth Frampton, Paul tures in marble and bronze and several watercolors. of Interior Design Jack Diamond, Katz, Faridah Shafii, et al. Ada Karmi-Melemedi 170 East 70th St. Bruce Kuwabara Marriott Hotel 6:15 p.m. www.nysid.edu The Cities Projects: 1535 Broadway Parsons School of Design Toronto's Bilbao Effect? www.ctbuh.org 25 East 13th St., 2nd Fl. EVENT 6:30 p.m. www.parsons.edu AiA Heritage Ball ADC Gallery 6:00 p.m. 106 West 29th St. Safe: Design Takes On Risk EXHIBITION OPENINGS Of STRENGTH, Chelsea Piers www.adcglobal.org Museum of Modern Art New York Comes Back 23rd St at Pier 60 11 West 53rd St. Museum of the City www.aiany.org WEDNESDAY 12 www.moma.org of New York LECTURE 1220 5th Ave. EXHIBITION OPENING Fiona Raby TUESDAY 18 www.mcny.org Jenny Holzer Designs for Fragile For the Crty Personalities in Michael John Gorman Ben Sloat: Independence New York Public Library Anxious Times Buckminster Fuller: Richard Sloat: 455 5th Ave. 6:30 p.m. Designing for Mobility New York Etchings www.creativetime.org Columbia GSAPP 6:00 p.m. Safe-T-Gallery Wood Auditorium The Bard Graduate Center III Front St., Brooklyn www.safetgallery.com FRIDAY 7 113 Avery Hall 18 West 86th St. JENNY HOLZER: FOR THE CITY EXHBITION OPENINGS www.arch.columbia.edu www.bgc.bard.edu New York Public Library, 455 5th Avenue Lisa Sigal Daniel Libeskind Through October 9 Max Protetch Gallery EXHIBITION OPENING EXHIBITION OPENING Frederieke Taylor Gallery 535 West 22nd St., 6th Fl. 511 West 22nd St. Hans Memling Santiago Calatrava: Jenny Holzer's latest exhibition and Creative Time collabora• www.frederieketaylor www.maxprotetch.com Portraits Sculpture Into Architecture tion. 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In the pantheon of great design patrons, easy." Well-known architects—even specific architecture is that they are really which comes from the way designers use Vitra stands out. The Swiss furniture those I am friends with—have come to prototypes. And usually they don't work. technology. The work of the Eameses, company has commissioned architecture me and said, "I've designed a chair, can Meda, Prouve—they have a distinct mind from Frank Gehry (launching his interna• you produce it?" But that's not how it You talk about design as problem- and character. They couldn't be by any• tional career), Nicholas Grimshaw, Antonio works. A chair doesn't come from a piece solving but how do you decide on which body else. But they speak the language of Citterio, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid (herfirst of paper, it doesn't start as an iconic problems to solve? For example, does necessity, of inevitability. That's why they built work), and Alvaro Siza. And Vitra image. Design is about solving problems the world need another office chair? are so satisfying. is beloved by design connoisseurs for over a long period of time. A chair takes as You could say it's an invented problem. giving the world some of the best works of long as a building to design. Most archi• When we did the first chair by Alberto Where is Vitra headed now? Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, tects don't want to go through all that. Meda [the series began over ten years ago], We have a new emphasis on the home Jean Prouve, Shiro Kuramata, and Jasper When Mies, Aalto, and Saarinen were Nicholas Grimshaw said, "Rolf, you're and the transversality between home and Morrison. designing furniture, there was a great lack out of business," because it seemed to office. In the home, there are less obvious < In 1977, Rolf Felhbaum took over the of objects. A century ago, furniture was solve all the problems. problems. There are hundreds of sofas for od company from his father, Willi, who found• made by furniture makers. Modern archi• There were those, like Max Bill, the the home, dining tables, et cetera. It's more a ed the firm in 1934 and distributed Herman tects couldn't find furniture that fit in with founder of the Ulm School, who would difficult to find the right problem and Miller in Europe in the 1950s. Both prag- their buildings so they started designing be pissed off at what we have today—too more likely you'll find formal solutions. matist and prophet, Rolf Fehlbaum's com• it themselves. The furniture of Mies and many solutions, too many choices. He Of course, not all problems are physi• mitment to design has propelled Vitra to Aalto came about when the profession [of thought, You solve a problem once, pro• cal; there are cultural problems too. We're the forefront of its industry and of design a furniture designer] didn't exist. But up duce it, the price comes down. But with deeply into the idea of collage, of mixing culture. until the Eameses, these designs were an office chair, there is still the chance for and layering—^the opposite of the mental• Perhaps Fehlbaum's passion for technically uncomplicated. real progress because there are always ity of many home furniture companies, design is best reflected in the Vitra Design new problems, new opportunities, new which believe in sets. No matter what Museum, which he established in 1989, There are plenty of architects who design ways of dealing with materials and ways environment you're in, you must be emo• initially to house his vast chair collection. furniture for their architecture, or at least of making. It's the one piece of furniture tionally satisfied. The museum has become an important fantasize about it. that's both machine and furniture. It's funny, you have these phases when cultural resource, producing weighty Architects' furniture may start out being Design is only strong when it has a you feel everything changes, and other exhibitions on Mexican architect Luis an expression of what works with a partic• reformist idea. Design got confused when phases when you think nothing changes. Barragan, Marcel Breuer, and Frank Lloyd ular building but only a few had a great• it became about differentiation, a method In the 1960s, my friend Verner Panton Wright. ness or an iconic quality that enabled for more signature. The first real design• and I never saw ourselves in chairs—that Fehlbaum was in New York last month them to go beyond the places they were ers, like the Eameses, were deeply into was bourgeois stuff. Everything was land• to introduce MedaPal,the newest addition designed for. [The successful ones] didn't technology. A technology-driven process scapes. During the dot com boom, it was to Vitra's seating family by Alberto Meda. just hit the special aspects of their particu• makes you avoid all the wrong, personal, something else and today, furniture He made time to chat with AN. lar buildings but answered general ideas. idiosyncratic expressions. It makes seems to be back to old values, even old By contrast, the furniture designed by designers discover what a material wants materials. What do you look for in a designer? Frank Lloyd Wright related only directly to to do, or that a project wants to go some• Our way is a different. We don't react to Actually, we work with very few people. his buildings, so his furniture never moved place other than where they intended. It's every change in the market. We do our It's perhaps easier to say what we don't to different places. a strange and difficult thing to explain, but work with love, with interest, while look• look for. 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>- tures vital to the long-term security of our open society. Dubbed the Gherkin, the 41-story Swiss Re building Instead of fortresses that rise from bunkers in empty has a tapering cylindrical profile like that of a torpedo. tu CONFIDENCE plazas, we need buildings that promote urban interaction, This unique shape is optimized to reduce wind turbu• sustainable energy policies, and the lively commerce in lence at street level and naturally ventilate the interior < goods and ideas that has long been our greatest strength. through six atriums that spiral through the building, Securing ourselves against terrorism includes making drawing in fresh air and venting office areas. In addition BUILDING sure that misguided counterterrorist policies don't stifle to providing workers with daylight and striking views, < our creativity and depress our economy. It is as much a these atriums allow the building to employ natural X Two years ago, the Freedom Tower planned for the matter of good urbanism, energy efficiency, and com• ventilation for about 40 percent of the year, lowering the < World Trade Center site represented the best thinking pelling design as it is of setbacks and barricades. building's energy consumption an anticipated 14 percent in tall building design. The version developed in 2003 How do these factors bear on security? In addition to below even stringent low-energy standards. What's o by architect David Childs and engineer Guy Nordenson safeguarding against the immediate threat of a terrorist more, these aesthetic, experiential, and environmental employed an exposed diagonal "diagrid" structure to bomb, new buildings need to enhance our society's long- advantages don't come at the expense of security. A dia• distribute both vertical and lateral loads, including the term viability. Excessive reliance on nonrenewable fuel grid structure like that formerly planned for the Freedom Tower gives the building the strength to withstand CO potential pressure of a bomb blast, around the building reduces our environmental quality and economic strength. LU perimeter and over buried train tracks. This system would It also distorts our foreign policy, leading us to support a bomb blast, and a carefully designed plaza provides have reduced the likelihood of collapse in a catastrophe states where oil production funds repressive regimes a setback while sensitively reinforcing the pedestrian o while also giving the building a distinctive beauty. The that inspire terrorists, as happened in Saudi Arabia with urbanism of London's financial district. The Swiss Re tower's torquing shape likewise combined functional and Al Qaeda. Nor is the aesthetic power of good architecture building is a virtuoso synthesis of security provisions a. aesthetic advantages: In addition to minimizing wind beside the point in the global competition for "hearts with features that reduce energy consumption, stimulate turbulence, it would have created a constantly changing and minds" between democracies and authoritarian or workers, and enhance the cityscape. silhouette. A lofty cable structure was engineered to sup• fundamentalist regimes. Great buildings, like business Those in charge of rebuilding lower Manhattan missed port wind turbines generating some of the energy con• innovations or a vibrant culture, demonstrate a society's an opportunity for Foster to replicate his Swiss Re suc• sumed by office floors below. vitality. If we want to increase our long-term resilience, cess here when they passed over his entry in the compe• Those features are gone now. Over the past two years, we should adopt design strategies that not only resist tition that led to the Freedom Tower design. By allowing the tower has gradually been stripped of its best attrib• bomb blasts but also promote openness, exchange, a one-dimensional idea of security to trump pedestrian utes. The final blow was delivered earlier this summer conservation, and innovation. urbanism, energy efficiency, and aesthetic power, they by the New York Police Department, which forced a total New York can learn from its closest counterpart have now let us down again. Fortifying individual build• redesign when it demanded a greater setback from the across the Atlantic. Long a target of Irish Republican ings won't do much good if it comes at the expense of the street and a heavy barricade to resist potential bombs. Army bombings, London has a track record of integrat• underlying ecologies that sustain our open society. But Now, just after the fourth anniversary of 9/11, the ing security concerns into its architecture and planning, we shouldn't have to choose between short-term protec• Freedom Tower has become a bland prism with a forbid• and it has recognized the value of sustainable design. tion and long-term security when we can have both. If ding 200-foot-high concrete base. A central London office building recently completed by we follow the lead of Foster and Swiss Re, securing our The new design is no good because it reflects the Norman Foster, Britain's leading architect, shows just buildings against bombs can also lead us toward the wrong approach to counter terrorism. In the name of how good progressive security design can be. That the social and economic renewal that is ultimately our best defending the tower against a bomb blast, developer building in question houses Swiss Re, the primary insur• defense against the terrorist threat. Larry Silverstein, Governor George Pataki, and the er paying for the World Trade Center reconstruction, and JONATHAN MASSEY IS AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN AT NYPD have induced Childs and engineers Cantor Seinuk replaces a structure damaged in a 1992 IRA bombing, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY AND AN NEH FELLOW AT THE (Nordenson left over design changes) to eliminate fea• only increases its relevance. WINTERTHUR MUSEUM.
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