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Architectsnewspaper 09 ^5.25 HE ARCHITECTSNEWSPAPER 09 ^5.25. NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM $3.95 CO STATA CENTER AT MIT, AN INTELLECTUAL VILLAGE 08 TOWARDS A NEW MODERN o 11 ATLAS, SHRUG TT JANE JACOBS' HOMECOMING !9 THE CITY REVAMPS SIDEWALK 16" CAFE REGULATIONS POLYPHONIC MONOLOGUES NY'S CAFES 12 DIARY 15 CLASSIFIEDS GET JOLT "In good weather, I eat all my meals outdoors," The offices for the father Technology (MIT) thought New science center is meant said Amanda Burden. 'T love sidewalk cafes. of the World Wide Web so when it hired Frank to unleash creativity. They add such character to a neighborhood." (Timothy Berners-Lee), the Gehry to replace its aging, Burden has been touting the virtues of side• pioneer of robotic engineer• asbestos-laden Building 20 The architecture is classic walk cafes—their ability to enhance street life, ing (Rodney Brooks), the (a temporary structure post-Bilbao Gehry, a caul• to make neighborhoods safer, contribute to premier rabble-rouser of erected in 1943 to house dron of curves, angles, color, the city's economy—since Mayor Bloomberg linguistics (Noam Chomsky), radar researchers) with the and materials designed to appointed her planning commissioner in and the patron saint of free 700,000-square-foot,$300 stir up creativity while January 2002. La.st week was a special triumph software (Richard Stallman) million Stata Center, a attracting top researchers for her, when City Council unanimously should be a bit more special research laboratory devoted and combating MIT's repu• approved her pet initiative allowing a new cat• than a boxy shed. The to computer, information, tation as a dull, dreary place, egory of small, unenclosed sidewalk cafes on LONDONERS ARE AGOG OVER Massachusetts Institute of and intelligence sciences. continued on page 7 streets where they were continued on page 4 FOSTER'S LATEST, BUT CAN IT LIVE UP TO THE HYPE? RESTORATION COMPLETE ON WASHINGTON SQUARE ARCH Gushing Over ARCH GRAND, AGAIN the Gherkin The Washington Square Arch has been restored as a symbol of New York's On a recent spring day in London, the grandeur. The rehabilitated arch was lenses of the media were clustered around unveiled April 30"', after $2.7 million and a a striking and provocative object, one that year of work that included the installation has made the most dramatic intervention of a bird-proofing system, the re-carving in the city's skyline for more than a gener• of sculptural elements, and repairs to its ation. Tall, slender, exquisitely propor• interior stairway and walls. Natural tioned, with sleek skin and every material weathering, pollution, birds, and vandal• surface carefully considered: It was Lord ism had all contributed to the decline of Norman Foster, making one of his rare the arch, which was designed by public appearances to launch his most Stanford White in the 1890s. important London building to date. The renovation project was funded in The building's official name is 30 St. part by the city (split among the Mayor's Mary Axe, but London's first tower in a Office, City Council, and Manhattan quarter of a century is already better Borough office) and in part by New York known as Swiss Re, after its developer, and University (NYU), continued on page 2 of course, "The Gherkin." It has achieved the near-impossible feat of being well received by both the design community Though it has just wrapped up a massive new and Londoners at large—the latter a con• addition to the Jersey City skyline, Goldman servative and hostile audience for contem• Sachs has set its sights on Manhattan. At a porary architecture. But when all the meeting with the Battery Park City Committee current fuss dies down, will its celebrity of Community Board 1 on May 4'\ company survive closer scrutiny? representatives and Harn/ Cobb of Pei Cobb There is no denying the drama of its sil• Freed unveiled plans for a new 800-foot head• houette, which curves gently outward from quarters that would occupy the last empty its base and then diminishes to a single commercial lot in Battery continued on page 3 point at the top, but on continued on page 2 CO rsj 3 O LU THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER MAY 25, 2004 GUSHING OVER THE GHERKIN continued PUBLISHER CO The Architecture League, the new Center for Architecture, and Diana Darling from front paqe its own, that would make it many other museums, institutions, and architecture schools in the no more than a one-trick building. Foster EDITORS o defends the unique profileforthe way in Cathy Lang Ho tri-state region go to great lengths to organize lecture series and which the tapering form liberates useable William Menking M symposia every year. Between them, they bring in a parade of space around its base, and because its ART DIRECTOR LU important architects, designers, and thinkers from everywhere in aerodynamic surface is a crucial part of Martin Perrin the world, ranging from up-and-coming talents to European super• the building's energy-saving program. As ASSISTANT EDITORS a piece of sculpture, the Gherkin has met Deborah Grossberg stars. These public lectures are used as a device by schools to inform with wide-scale approval though a minor• James Way their students about the outside world of design, and to publicize ity finds it too bulbous. A telling statistic is ADVERTISING SALES their own programs (they often spend considerable resources to that at its widest point, the tower's circum• Jonathan Chaffin mail well-designed posters to every other school in the country). ference is only two meters smaller than INTERN its height, which suggests it is either too Christina Ficicchia It's impossible, of course, for busy professionals and academics to wide (driven by commerce) or too short (restrained by conservation). TECHNICAL CONSULTANT see but a handful of these presentations every season. It's a shame Keith James because lectures allow a speaker to describe a process in a sponta• The interiors are disappointing, largely because Foster's office didn't do the fit-out. MEDIA CONSULTANT neous manner, and provide a personal impression that glossy Paul Beatty However, the clarity and elegance of the monographs or even newspaper articles cannot. They also allow planning solution, which in effect squares CONTRIBUTORS audiences to question or even challenge speakers to clarify their the circle, soon overwhelms any banality. PHILIPPE BARRIEREy ARIC CHEN/ Each floor is divided into six rectangular MURRAY FRASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL/ position and participate in a debate that yields the type of experi• segments radiating out from the core, and JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE / JAMES PETO/ ence that not only informs but moves the profession forward. LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUCLISI/KESTER RATTENBURY/ the triangular spaces between these fingers D.GRAHAME SHANE/PETER SLATIN In this issue, we review several lectures. Daniel Sherer put his gloss are left open. On each floor, the plan is ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER on Francesco Dal Go's reading of Raphael Soriano, which he pre• rotated slightly from the one below, so that the triangles stack up into sweeping EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD sented at Columbia University. When Rafael Moneo spoke at diagonal spaces that spiral around the PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ Cooper Union, our reviewer Claire Zimmerman found the archi• building, expressed externally as stripes WHITNEY COX /OOILE DECO/ TOM HANRAHAN / tect both nostalgic to be back in the house of John Hejduk and torn of different colored glazing. The gardens SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ that were to cascade downward through LISA NAFTOLIN/SIGNE NIELSEN / by becoming perhaps less of a theorist and more of a builder. these spaces fell victim to cost restraints, JOAN OCKMAN / HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ Cooper also presented the lecture series "Resonating Frequencies," and are too bare and small to be of much KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR/MICHAEL SORKIN organized by Christopher Janney, which owed a certain appeal to obvious value, productive or aesthetic. its introduction of non-architect speakers to an architecture crowd. However, the atria form an integral part of GENERAL INFORMATION: [email protected] the building's environmental control, which EDITORIAL: EDITOR<aARCHPAPER.COM Finally, Christine Boyer reviewed a truly landmark lecture, by is perhaps its true claim to fame: It is being DIARY: [email protected] ADVERTISING: [email protected] 86-year-old Jane Jacobs in City College's first annual Lewis Mum- widely promoted as among the first In a SUBSCRIPTION: [email protected] ford Lecture, organized by Michael Sorkin, chair of the Graduate new generation of "environmentally pro• PLEASE NOTIFY US IF YOU ARE RECEIVING gressive" tall office buildings. As wind DUPLICATE COPIES. Program of Urban Design. Jacobs, who has such a tremendous strikes the structure. It accelerates around impact on New York as a writer and activist, famously moved from the curves, forcing fresh air in and sucking THE Views or OUR REVIEWERS AND COLUMNISTS 00 NOT stale air out of banks of operable windows NtCESSARILV REFLECT THOSE OF THE STAFF OR ADVISORS OF the city during the Vietnam War but returned to honor Mumford, THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER. within the spirals, making them the "lungs" with whom she often disagreed. Her presentation is one of those VOLUME 02 ISSUE 0«, MAY 2S, 2004 of the building. This contributes to the THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER IS PUBLISHED 20 TIMES A YEAR, BY THE ABCHITECrS NEWSPAPER. LLC. P.O. BOX 937. MEW YORK. NY I00I3. moments that makes one realize that the city is a truly incompa• potential energy savings of up to 50 per• PRESORT-STANDARD POSTAGE PAID IN NEW YORK.
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