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THE ARCHITECTSNEWSPAPER 27 2004 NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM $3.95 CORNERSTONE LAID, CONSTRUCTION BEGINS CO 03 REVIVING UJ Freedom Tower JOHNSON RELIC o 05 FOUR VISIONS FOR Breaks Ground THE HIGH LINE Skeptics held their breath and The phrase "enduring spirit of politicians considered their freedom" was engraved in all- futures as the 20-ton cornerstone caps, twice the size of the com• HOW THE FAR WEST for Larry Siiverstein's Freedom memorative words, in a physical Tower was lowered onto its tem• marker of the political game the SIDE WILL BE WON porary wooden platform, 10 feet World Trade Center reconstruc• 14 above its final resting place. The tion has become. Under Sunday's granite stone was inscribed with cover of night, when all the offi• PERRIAND'S PUCE the words "To honor and remem• cials and photographers were will become invisible as con• the progress of the building's ber those who lost their lives on long gone, the stone was low• struction continues. It will not hold design, the groundbreaking did EAVESDROP September IT" and as a tribute to ered from its plinth to its under• any structural weight. carry more than symbolic weight: CURBSIDE the enduring spirit of freedom." ground resting place, where it Despite lingering doubts as to Construction continued on page 2 CLASSIFIEDS New York teenagers will have increased ANNE PAPAGEORGE LEAVES DDC ARCHITECTURE-CENTRIC PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS SPRING UP ACROSS NYC opportunities to study architecture in the near future as the city completes its plan to create FOR LMDC five new public high schools devoted to the field over the next two years. Four schools— WTC MEMORIAL NEVER TOO EAR the Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, the Urban Assembly School of MOVES FORWARD Design and Construction in Manhattan on West 50"' Street, and the East and West Bronx The Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Academies for the Future—will begin classes Agency recently named Anne Papageorge this fall, and another, the High School for as the design director for the World Trade Architecture and Urban Planning in Ozone Center Memorial, Reflecting Absence. Park, Queens, will open its doors in 2006.The Equipped with a landscape architecture five new design-themed magnet schools fol• degree from CUNY College of Environ• low on the heels of two others—the Academy mental Sciences and Forestry, as well as a of Urban Planning in Bushwick and Pablo business degree from Baruch College, Neruda Academy for Architecture and World Papageorge most recently served as deputy cture and Studies in the Bronx, which opened last fall. commissioner in the city's Department of ns by Arquite All but one of the seven continued on page 6 Design and Construction (DDC). She has held a number of posts at the DDC over 18 years, including acting commissioner, Again?" (Issue Gluckman, who and has overseen the department's annual WHITNEY LEADS ARCHITECTS ON, E 10_6.8.2004), David completed an exten• $1 billion budget. In addition to developing THEN DUMPS THEM D'arcy reported that sive renovation of the sustainable guidelines for city buildings, her BIG the museum jetti• Whitney in 1998, the notable projects include the Queens soned its original and museum asked him Museum and City Lights competitions. amended shortlists to submit a detailed "I think it's a great opportunity to work on EASE to extend the job to design in 2003 when a large-scale urban project which will have The twists and Renzo Piano last it became apparent a lasting impact on Lower Manhattan,"said turns in the month. that Koolhaas' $400 Papageorge."I'm very excited." ANDREW YANG Whitney Museum Richard Gluckman, million project was of American Art's one of the six archi• far more than it seemingly endless tects involved in the wanted to pay. LONDON ARCHITECT WITHDRAWS search for an archi• Whitney's first inter• Gluckman was FROM CONTROVERSIAL tect is a practition• view process in 2001 asked to design a TRIBECA TOWER er's worst night• that led to Rem more realistically mare. In "On Koolhaas' selection, priced alternative that has spoken out about met several criteria. Foster Bows Out what he considers The museum wanted Foster and Partners has announced that the confused manner the addition to maxi• it has resigned from the team designing in which the Whitney mize gallery space proposals for the 35-story Resnick conducted its search. while respecting the Tower in New York (see "Foster Builds in (Others on the first height of the Marcel Tribeca—or Not," Issue 10_6.8.2004). The list were Norman Breuer-designed project team claims it has reached an ami• Foster, Jean Nouvel, building and pre• cable agreement with developer Scott Peter Eisenman, and serving the facades Resnick over the future of the scheme, Steven Holl.) of the adjacent a controversial residential development According to continued on page 4 on a city-owned lot continued on page 2 LU o z THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER JULY 27. 2004 CO The New York Times' recent announcement that Nicolai Diana Darling continued from front page of the tower's on foundation began on the Tuesday follow• O Ouroussof would assume Herbert Muschamp's post as archi• ing the ceremony. Cathy Lang Ho I- tecture critic is quintessential good news/bad news. No one M The atmosphere was one of frantic William Menking seems sorry to see Muschamp leave the job, even within the a relief. Governor George E. Pataki had set LU paper. As Clay Risen (who also contributes to The Architect's what Quentin Brathwaite, deputy director Martin Perrin Newspaper) wrote in his sharp, obituary-like front-page story of planning of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, termed an Deborah Grossberg in the July 19 edition of The New York Observer, Muschamp's "extremely aggressive schedule," begin• James Way transition is "a relief to a new crop of editors unwilling to ning with Pataki's pressure on the starkly defend, as their predecessors did, the critic's iconoclasm and different Childs and Libeskind camps to Jonathan Chaffin obscurantism." For readers, his writing wavered between come up with a design for the tower by incisive and incomprehensible, socially minded and narcissis• December. In response to rumblings of Paula Lehman a politically significant overlap between tic. In any case, the roller-coaster ride seemed interminable. MANKermc ihtern the groundbreaking and the Republican Lori Macdonald The bad news is, as Peter Slatin laments in Curbside (page 4), Convention (August 30 to September 3), Pataki completed the numerical symbolism that the NYT conducted a narrow search to fill this important Keith James of the site by choosing July 4, post. The NYT remains the most influential newspaper in the Independence Day, continuing the White House's motif of tenuous connections Paul Beatty country, and its power to shape the priorities of the profes• sion—and the perception of architecture among a broad audi• between September 11,freedom, and, as he said at the ceremony, "attacks on our ence—is unrivaled. It's a shame that more of the talented way of life." journalists and critics who have been writing consistently and During the pomp-filled cornerstone- conscientiously about architecture in New York and beyond laying ceremony, business around the weren't given a shake. site carried on as usual: the PATH trains periodically interrupted the incongruous, But more importandy, the appointment of a new critic doesn't prearranged bagpipe music as they roared fix the larger problems of the NYTs treatment of architecture. through the temporary station while com• First, Muschamp clearly suffered from poor editing. Will his mercial airplanes flew disturbingly low, PHILIPPE BARRIERE/ARIC CHEN/ a reminder of the Towers' loss. But there MURRAY FRASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL / successor be similarly left to his own devices? Second, the JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE/JAMES PETO/ were signs of the day's significance out• LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/KESTER RATTENBURY/ paper's scattershot reporting on the field must be blamed for side the tightly controlled site, where only D.GRAHAME SHANE/PETER SLATIN / our heightened expectations of Muschamp's columns. The media, family members, and an assorted GWEN WRIGHT / ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER "newspaper of record" does cover architecture routinely (espe• panoply of invited guests made up the surprisingly meager crowd allowed to cially so since 9/11) but it has never had a dedicated architecture PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ witness the ceremony. A group of protes• M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ beat. And when stories do appear, they tend to be sifted tors from the Westerboro Baptist Church WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ through a trend filter. This is perhaps a legacy of Muschamp, of Topeka, Kansas, held up horrific signs SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ ("Thank God for 9/11") while bomb-sniffing LISA NAFTOLIN/SIGNE NIELSEN / whose analysis of architecture brought it ever-closer to fashion dogs checked every entrant's bag. This JOAN OCKMAN / HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ and further from dull but crucial matters such as financing, KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ writer observed one arrest. TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR / MICHAEL SORKIN land use, ecology, community-building, zoning, and so on. The political spectacle within the site was a culmination of the subtle takeover GENERAL INFORMATION: [email protected] The NYT is rumored to be interviewing candidates for a of power that began with the selection of EDITORIAL: EDITOR^ARCHPAPER.COM staff architectural writer, which is great news. But what will DIARY: DIARY®ARCHPAPER.COM Libeskind's masterplan. The dais was ADVERTISING: [email protected] these changes at the NYT mean? 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