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THE ARCHITECTSNEWSPAPER 16^10.5.2004 NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM $3.95 OPPONENTS' PETITION TO C/) HALT CITY REVIEW PROCESS 04 DENIED DESIGN SAVES LU AIA-NY ANNOUNCES I- DEMOCRACIES HUDSON O 05 4 AWARD WINNERS o YARDS STILL COPYCAT CAUGHT 08 ON TRACK WHALES,BEETLES, ETC., AT THE The Hudson Yards Development Plan went forward with a public hearing on VENICE BIENNALE Thursday, September 23, after a judge Tl ruled against a group of Far West Side residents and businesses that sued the HOLY BATTLE, city and Metropolitan Transit Authority to SACRED GROUND halt review of the project. The suit, filed in Daiki Theme Park by Ga. A Architects, the State Supreme Court in Manhattan on 03 EAVESDROP Mass Studies, and Cho/Slade Architecture August 26, centered on the Draft Generic 15 CLASSIFIEDS Environmental Impact continued on page 3 On September 20, the New York chapter of projects for non- profits," she commented. the AIA announced the winners of its annual "It is very challenging to do, and these proj• design awards. After a long day of poring ects were handled well." Their admiration STATEN ISLAhI D DEDICATE^^ Sono, an architect at Voorsanger & was not limited to work done for under over almost 400 submissions, which are 9/11 AjEMOR] Associates Architects in Manhattan, restricted to AIA New York members or New $200 per square foot. After Joy presented arrived at his concept serendipitously. As York State-licensed architects practicing in Peter Gluck's Scholar's Library, a tiny box in part of his routine design process, he uses New York City, jurors presented their winning the woods in upstate New York for a private postcards to build parti models. During one selections at the Center for Architecture. The client, he added "Not only do I want one of fateful session, he came to the image of winners were notified at the day's end, and these, but I wish I had designed it myself." a postcard form flexing toward downtown many were present at the awards sympo• The jurors forthe Interiors and Projects Manhattan. "Postcards evoke a tangible, sium. (For a list of winners, see page 4.) categories were not quite as effusive, how• - personal correspondence between loved While some of the winning projects in the ever, and in the lively question and answer ones," said Sono. "It's this connection the Architecture category won't surprise any• period moderated by Anthony Vidler, mem• design strives for." The young designer one—Richard Meier's courthouse in Islip bers of the two groups gently criticized the extended the postcard concept further by and Jubilee Church in Rome, for example— quality of the submissions they had seen. placing the name, date of birth, place of juror Brigitte Shim was full of praise forthe "Fifteen years ago, the Projects category Postcards occupation, and facial profile of each victim inventiveness and range of work she and [for unrealized or theoretical projects] would on individual panels of thin white granite, fellow jurors Rick Joy and Merrill Elam saw. have been the strongest of the three," which Sono calls "stamps." said juror Karen Van Lengen, "but that "I was pleased to see so many low-budget From the Edge The scale and shape of the twin "post• has changed entirely. The other two are cards," which resemble wings, was an stronger, and that speaks about the culture Staten Island delivered its residents some engineering concern in light of the wind on we're in." Fellow Projects category juror solace on the third anniversary of 9/11, dedi• its riverfront site. The Economic Develop• Peter Papademetriou expanded on that cating a memorial to the 268 local victims of ment Corporation, which owns the memor• thought, adding, "There is a notion that ideas both the 1993 and 2001 World Trade Center ial's site, contracted NEB, a Portsmouth, can make architecture, but making can also attacks. Over 4,000 people crowded the St. Rhode Island, company that designs and foster ideas that evolve as you get real." George shoreline esplanade adjacent to the builds boats, to fabricate the sturdy resin As for the Interiors category, juror Staten Island Ferry Terminal to witness the composite structure. Riccardo Roselli said, "The winning proj• unveiling of Masayuki Sono and Lapshan "Postcards is the first memorial of this ects are an exception to the general level Fong's design, entitled Posfcards. The design magnitude to be completed in New York," we saw today—many others seem to be was selected from 179 international entries said Molinaro, who expedited the process to an RFP issued by Staten Island Borough fighting the same battles of good taste, and by approving $2.7 million of his own budget President James P. Molinaro in January 2003. not taking particular efforts to say some• to fund the project, GUNNAR HAND thing new in architecture of interiors." None of this mild-mannered politesse KARIM RASHID DESIGNS SLEEK for Projects juror Pascal Quintard-Hofstein, They may not qualify as Public Menace # 1, but however. In the Q&A period, he took the NEWS BOXES FOR MADISON AVENUE the brightly colored plastic newspaper stands opportunity to make an impassioned that dispense offerings from The Onion, The denunciation of the continued on paqe4 Learning Annex, TJte Village Voice, and count• less other free publications have incurred enough ire for blocking corners, collecting trash, and being, well, ugly, that their days are numbered, at least on Madison Avenue. On September 28, a sleek gray harbinger of the future will land on the sidewalk in front of the Issey Miyake store on Madison at 75"' Street. It's the first of 75 boxes to be installed and STREET CLE represents the culmination of several years of work by Councilor Eva Moskowitz (District4) and the Madison Avenue continued on page 6 00 C\J 3 O LU THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER OCTOBER 5. 2004 Brian Carter PUBLISHER CO Architecture is label-obsessed. Like an insecure nouveau riche, seek• Diana Darling State University of New York at Buffalo ing legitimacy via association with the right brands, the right style, School of Architecture and Planning EDITORS o architecture constantly strives to be on this side of chic, daring, Founded: 1969 Cathy Lang Ho William Menking l-H avant-garde. Modernism, postmodernism, deconstructivism, mini• # of students: 446 undergrad., 244 grad. malism, blobism, regionalism, digitalism. (Givenchy, Paco Rabanne, Dean since: 2003 ART DIRECTOR LU Martin Perrin Com me des Gar(;:ons, Armani, Prada, Issey Miyake.) Meanwhile, architecture's commentators—^journalists, critics, historians, cura• The School of Architecture and Planning at SENIOR EDITOR Buffalo is founded on the idea that design Anne Guiney tors—are forever at pains to identify the last or next big thing, aware has few boundaries. It is also a place where ASSOCIATE EDITOR of the need to update continually whatever's au courant. research has long been viewed as an integral Deborah Grossberg For the 9th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice part of design. Having worked in practice ADVERTISING SALES Biennale, director Kurt Forster focused on one "movement," the with Arup in London prior to coming to teach Jonathan Chaffin widespread trend toward organic, biomorphic form-giving, gath• in the United States, I am very interested in MEDIA ECOLOGIST ered under the rubric of Metamorph. The quantity of compelling that history and committed to working with the faculty to advance those ideas. The pres• Keith James projects that Forster has culled from around the world adds up to ence of Reyner Banham, John McHale, and EDITORIAL INTERN a provocative polemic—though admittedly one that already seems Gunnar Hand other broad and deep thinkers at the school historic, and that is ultimately limited by its emphasis on architec• throughout the years focused those views MEDIA CONSULTANT ture's formal properties. and continues to inspire our work. These tra• Paul Beatty Our reviewer, Richard Ingersoll, traces Forster's agenda to his own ditions are providing us with extremely strong close personiil history with Peter Eisenman and Frank Gehry ("From foundations off which to build a range of the Belly of the Whale," page 8), while Esra Erkans observes in her programs that address contemporary issues. essay ("The Golden Lion Goes to Africa," page 9) that alternative At Buffalo we have the only accredited architecture program in the 64-campus SUNY voices at the Biennale were found mostly in the national pavilions. system. Consequently ours is a large school Peter Cook, director of the British pavilion, also alludes to architec• with accessible programs that serve broad ture's closed circuit. In the catalogue accompanying his pavilion's and diverse communities, it is also located CONTRIBUTORS presentation, he reminds that, not too long ago, all the "in" architec• in a city with an outstanding collection of PHILIPPE BARRIERE / ARIC CHEN / tural ideas seemed to emanate from "a certain architectural network buildings designed by eminent architects— MURRAY FRASER/RICHARD INGERSOLL / Sullivan, Wright, H. H.Richardson, Albert JOE KERR/LIANE LEFAIVRE/JAMES PETO/ in the United States [which took] selected French philosophers, LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/KESTER RATTENBURY/ [found] tectonic links, and then [discussed] these issues by way of Kahn, the Saarinens, Gordon Bunshaft and D.GRAHAME SHANE/PETER SLATIN / many more—and set within an elegant and rather complicated American verbiage." He goes on to comment that GWEN WRIGHT / ANDREW YANG/PETER ZELLNER liveable city plan devised by Joseph Ellicott even "straightforwardly talented building architects [were drawn] and advanced by Frederick Law Olmsted. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD into the game," threatened with "reputational void" if they didn't play PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ Though once prosperous, the city is now M.
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