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ASIA SOCIETY UNVEILS TWO NEW FACILITIES I— 08 FOR HOUSTON AND HONG KONG LU ICA RISES SOUTH BY IN BOSTON O SOUTH EAS O 12 A SKYLINE GROWS IN QUEENS PORT AUTHORITY TO BUILD 17 EXPANDED FERRY DOCK NOMA'S TERMINAL SPANISH ACCENT CAPACITY 28 MARKETPLACE 30 CLASSIFIEDS The World Financial Center is set to receive a new floating, five-slip ferry terminal. Currently under construction in The Asia Society, the -based center in Houston—by two prominent internation• QUEENS BANK ROBBED OF a shipyard in Texas, the new $40 million for culture and commerce, was founded al architecture firms. HISTORIC DESIGNATION STATUS terminal was designed by the engineering by John D. Rockefeller III 50 years ago to The society already has several locations and architecture design division of the encourage dialogue about the far-flung in Asia and in the that are Port Authority of New York & New Jersey continent. Asia might not seem as far away administered locally. The organization has Landmarking (PA), and will replace a temporary two- today as it did in Rockefeller's time, but been operating for 15 years in Hong Kong slip facility currently in operation at the globalization has only deepened the need and 25 years in Houston, but increased inter• est and funding have made the expanded Battery Park City esplanade. Serviced by for greater understanding between East and Undone facilities the next logical step, according New York Waterways, the new terminal West. The nonprofit has commisioned two to Asia Society President Vishakha N. Desai. will continue to connect Lower multi-million dollar exhibition and confer• Despite intense lobbying efforts of local Houston has one of this continued on page 4 to Hoboken and will increase passenger ence centers—one in Hong Kong, the other preservationists. New York's City Council capacity to an estimated 16,000 people recently overturned the landmark designa• per hour, up 7,000 from the temporary tion of the former Jamaica Savings Bank facility. In relatively short order, Terence Riley in Elmhurst, Queens. The Landmarks After the World Trade Center PATH vacated the post of chief architecture and Preservation Commission gave the 1966 station was destroyed during 9/11, ferry design curator of the Museum of Modern modernist building, by architect William service to and from Art (MoMA); Joseph Rosa left the San Cann, a landmark designation in June 2005. Francisco increased dramatically. While the tempo• At the City Council confirmation hearing (SFMoMA) last summerto join the Art rary terminal served the extra traffic, the on February 15, the building's owner, BA Institute of Chicago, and his old position five-slip permanent facility was planned Property LLC, argued against landmark• remains unfilled; the Guggenheim, with before 9/11, in the late 1990s, according ing, citing the complaints of its current a major retrospective on and to Donald Fram, PA's chief architect. New occupant. North Fork Bank. The tenant another on Eero Saarinen on the horizon, York Waterways has run ferry service to claims the building is too expensive to The Philip Joh announced that it's in the market for a and from Battery Park City since 1989. operate due to its design, noting that the and Design Galleries at MoMA. senior architecture curator. And last month, This June, the 160-by-176-foot terminal utility bills are 50 percent higher at the Alice Rawsthorn, the gung-ho director of base will be tugged from Texas to the New Elmhurst location continued on page 3 London's Design Museum, abruptly—and York area via the Gulf of Mexico and the MUSEUMS NEED ARCHITECTURE per force—resigned. Jamaica Savings Bank, designed by Atlantic Ocean. In preparation for its ocean William Cann in 1966. voyage, the craft is being constructed with AND DESIGN CURATORS, BUT WHAT Who gets these jobs matters less than a deeper keel—making it more like a ship ARE THEY LOOKING FOR? the sea change they portend. Museums, than a barge. The base will arrive first particularly those with a broad sense in Brooklyn, where it will be outfitted of mission, have at long last noticed that with a pitched fabric roof and interior POSITIONS architecture and design are as capable of elements. The ferry terminal is expected mirroring the culture as any other art form. to be completed at the end of the year, AVAILABLE, But are museums really welcoming archi• at which time it will be anchored to two tecture and design into the pantheon of steel piers at the continued on page 5 JOB UNKNOWN the arts or is this a continued on page 5

PRESERVATIONISTS SAY LMDC'S On March 13, a team of construction workers MEMORIAL PLANS ENDANGER began to prepare the site for the World Trace Center Memorial and Museum al (iround WTC FOOTPRINTS Zero. However, the work began under a cloud of criticism from an unexpected quarter: MIS-STEPS two well-regarded preservation groups. Only two weeks before, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTH?) and the Lower ON FOOTINGS Manhattan Emergency Preservation Fund joined the memorial's continued on page 3 •

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MIS-STEPS ON FOOTINGS continued from front PUBLISHER CO In our feature "Patchwork City" (page 12) Grahame Shane observes that page many critics, sending out two stron^K Diana Darling New York's origins as an archipelago, a network of small European settle• worded letters addres.sed to the Port Authority EDITORS o Cathy Lang Ho ments that grew connective tissue of roads and neighborhoods over the and the Lower Manhattan Development William Menking years. A new framework for development being implemented by the Corporation (LMDC). The groups urged ART DIRECTOR Department of City Planning (DCP) nods to that history, and is encourag• the Port Authority to hold off work on the silo Martin Perrin until the true nature of the museum s effects ing a similar pattern of "mixed uses, spaces, scales, densities and textures" SENIOR EDITOR on the original tower's footprints could be Anne Gulney throughout the boroughs. determined. The NTHP regards the footprints ASSOCIATE EDITOR The patchwork approach has clear benefits, as Shane points out, such as as a "direct, irreplaceable, and authentic link to Andrew Yang flexibility, responsiveness, variety, embodied by Amanda Burden's innova• the historic events of September 11,2001." PROJECTS EDITOR Aaron Seward tive micro-zoning. However, it has one obvious drawback, which is the lack In the February 24"' letter, the NTHP also ASSISTANT EDITOR of an overall vision of growth. We wouldn't dare suggest that the Mayor expressed grave concerns aboLit the LMIXVs Jaffer Kolb install a Robert Moses-like figure in his office, but that he simply consider review process to determine which elements DESIGN AND PRODUCTION of the site are worth preserving. According to a unified plan of action, like the 1992 waterfront plan, which Christine Korokl Roberta Lane, program officer and regional SALES AND MARKETING DIRECTOR assessed and guided the development of the city's entire 587-mile water• attorney for the Northeast region of the NTHP, Karen Begley front. Such a plan might be able to do something about Queens West, a self- "The construction bids [for site preparation PUBLISHING ASSISTANTS Teresa Herrmann enclosed, suburban highrise district that echoes Battery Park City. It makes and footings] were due before our comments Katelyn Mueller little sense to offer planning incentives and tax abatements to build massive [were due], so the review process was mean• EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS towers on the waterfront, where development is likely to take place over ingless." Another issue is a lack of clarity: Gunnar Hand time without incentives and which has few links to public transportation. "From the way they framed their analysis [of Stephen Martin potentially adverse affects to the site], it is not EDITORIAL INTERN The truth is. Queens West responds more to Manhattan's squeezed resi• even perfectly clear what will happen to the Jesse Finkelstein dential market than to the real needs of the borough or the city as a whole. footprints," said Lane. "It may befine, but the WEB CONSULTANT New York does need more housing at all income levels, but most new resi• Daniil Alexandrov plans are unclear, making it is hard to know." dential developments, like those at Queens West, are .squeezing moderate- The NTHP became involved in the rebuild• and low-income populations further out. We applaud the DCP's efforts to ing proce.ss when the WTC site was deemed CONTRIBUTORS save the "soul" of the area with its approval of the Hunters Point Mixed-Use eligible for protection under the National MARISA BARTOLUCCI/ALAN G.BRAKE/ Sub-District zone and its measures to transform Jackson Avenue into an Historic Places Act of 1966. When a property ARIC CHEN / DAVID D'ARCY / MURRAY FRASER / slated for designation is going to be modified RICHARD INGERSOLL/JULIE V. lOVINE / JOE KERR/ animated boulevard. But who will be left to enjoy this new mixed-use in any way, it triggers a review process known LIANE LEFAIVRE/LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/ urban landscape if the area becomes too expensive for all but well-to-do KESTER RATTENBURY/CLAY RISEN/ as Section 106. In practice, this means that D.GRAHAME SHANE/GWEN WRIGHT/PETER ZELLNER New Yorkers? local organizations are asked to provide con•

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Without a masterplan, the areas that will receive the DCP's focused structive feedback on the way the plans may PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ attention are the hot development spots of the moment. Quick reflexes are affect the historic resources. While the process M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ a virtue but so is far-sightedness. What about the un-hot patches? For is non-binding, preservation groups and oth• WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ ers with an interest in the site's redevelopment SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/REED KROLOFF/ example. Sunnyside Yards begs for attention. All the DCP's encouragements often exert some influence. JAYNE MERKEL/ LISA NAFTOLIN/SIGNE NIELSEN / for Long Island City to thrive with new businesses and residents should be HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ JOAN OCKMAN / In sending the letters, the two groups have integral to the creation of an intermodal transportation hub at Simnyside KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ given ammunition to a group of family mem• TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR/MICHAEL SORKIN Yards, a long-deliberated plan that the city and state seem to have given up on. bers of victims of the World Trade Center's

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LANDMARKING UNDONE continued from front to relocate when its lease expires in 2014. 3 TENANTS SO FAR FOR 7WTC Properties, has come under fire for his plans page than at other North Fork branches. Subcommittee Chairs Simcha Felder and to build additional commercial towers at When Cann created the structure's hyper• Melida Katz agreed with BA Property's dis• Ground Zero, including the long-discussed bolic paraboloid form, he used reinforced putes and argued that the building did not Still For Rent Freedom Tower and a third tower, at 200 concrete piers to support the copper-clad "look like" a landmark and therefore did not Greenwich, which is to be designed by Lord roof that peaks at a height of 43 feet above deserve a landmark designation. Additionally, Though 7 World Trade Center will officially Norman Foster. the entrance. The design eliminated the need councilmember Charles Barron declared open in May, it has signed only three ten• At present, only three tenants have signed for interior columns and enhanced the that modern buildings are not old enough to ants to date. According to Bud Perrone, vice on for space in the 1.7-million-square-foot, sightlines within the building. be worthy of landmarking. At the final vote, president of Rubenstein Communications 52-floor 7 WTC: New York Academy of While the building's owner has no plans to all but one councilmember voted against and representative of 7 WTC's developer Science, 40,000 square feet of the 40"' floor; sell the building or create a larger structure the designation. Though Mayor Michael Silverstein Properties, "The building will Ameriprise Financial, 20,000 square feet of on the site, zoning restrictions currently Bloomberg vetoed the action of City Council, definitely not be full when it opens in May. the 39"' floor; and Beijing-based Vantone allow for a structure 84 percent larger than City Council overturned the veto. But Silverstein Properties continues to be in Real Estate, 200,000 square feet on the top the current building. The City Council's ruling Since City Council was given the authority serious negotiations with possible tenants five floors. was important to BA Property as the com• in 1990 to vote on landmarking, only six and remains confident that the building will Though the lobby isn't expected to see pany has reservations that it will be able to LPC designations have been reversed. lease out rather quickly, as there is a demand much traffic any time soon, it will resound find a new tenant should North Fork decide TERESA HERRMANN for Class A commercial property." with the work of Jenny Holzer: A 14-foot As one of downtown's premier buildings, light-emitting wall will display eight hours 7 WTC can be read as an indicator of the worth of poetry and prose from dozens of EAVESDROP IS ON ASSIGNMENT market for downtown commercial real estate. authors such as Allen Ginsberg and Walt As a result, Larry Silverstein of Silverstein Whitman, TH CO 3 O LU

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From left: A photo collage shows how Yoshio conference center. "It is a horizontal sky• Taniquchi's design for Asia House, scraper—a groundscraper," Tsien said of Society's Houston branchjJM their modern glass building. Its low-slung the landscape, profile hugs the landscape and engages structure, Taniguchi pisov nature in a very Wrightian way with a roof for Asia House even desp garden that becomes a dynamic, zig-zagging bridge linked to the old complex. Where the roof melds with the bridge, a quadrilateral- shaped pool will deposit water onto the lower level of the two-story complex. Described by Tsien as a "floating garden," the roof/bridge segue is the most striking and unifying aspect of the new project. The team's initial scheme for the bridge was a straight connection to the old complex, but the palm trees—and their resident endan• gered fruit bats—would have been eliminated by this footprint, so the designers developed the winding bridge. And, according to Chinese tradition, bad spirits are brought on by straight lines, so the indirect link is more in keeping with local tradition. SOUTH BY SOUTH EAST continued from front for a 35,000-square-foot, $52-million complex Sejima and Barcelona-based Elias Torres and For Tsien, the commission for the Asia page country's fastest growing Asian- designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Jose Antonio Martinez Lapeha. "It was like a Society Hong Kong has great personal signif• American communities. "With its strength Architects (TWBTA) in the Hong Kong district jungle," said Tsien. "It was like Vietnam, with icance. "I have enjoyed the commission a huge in the science, technology, and energy known as Central. Construction is expected banyan trees with leaves the size of umbrel• amount. For me, it is a bridge because I am sectors, Houston has been attracting people to be completed by 2008. las growing out of the tops of the buildings." Chinese-American, not one orthe other," she from China, India, Vietnam, and Korea," Taniguchi was selected for the Houston On the site is a three-buiiding compound that said. "And the Asia Society's whole mission explained Desal. project by the center's local advisory board was an explosives and ammunition store• is to be a bridge between cultures." Making Yoshio Taniguchi, best known for his after a review of several architects' work, house in the 19"' century. the commission even more bittersweet, the expansion of New York's Museum of Modern while TWBTA participated in a limited com• An overgrown plot in the city's skyscraper- actual day they won was September 11, 2001. Art, is designing the society's $40 million petition: The society considered 10 portfolios dense downtown—and a stone's throw from While TWBTA is working on a house in Houston outpost, Asia House, which will break and three were shortlisted. "We wanted Norman Foster's Hong Kong and Shanghai Hong Kong, they have no additional projects ground laterthls year and be completed by to work extra hard to include Asians in the Bank—the historic structures will be renovat• in Asia. "I am not sure if we are right for 2010. While the final design will be unveiled In process for Hong Kong, but the most impor• ed to become exhibition spaces as well as a Asia," Tsien explained, adding that the Asia mid-March, the center will include galleries, tant thing to us was how the designers theater and offices in the architects' scheme. Society was an exceptional client. "China in a 300-seat theater, meeting rooms, reception approached the site," recalled Desai. The New York architects decided to take particular is interested in buying namesand spaces, and gardens. Williams and Tsien first saw the site in 2000, advantage of the site's horizontality in design• products. That is not how we work." Meanwhile, ground has just been broken along with other shortlisted architects Kazuyo ing the new addition, a 20,000-square-foot BAY BROWN

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POSITIONS AVAILABLE, it up from scratch. abound. Critics of recent JOB UNKNOWN continued So what have we seen? omnibus shows have from front page cynical Collections of cool stuff begged for more context recognition that they are just presented in the manner and deeper explanations "easy" and popular with the of natural history museums of the forces at work within masses? In fact, architecture (minus, alas, the dioramas), already riveting panoramic and design's admission to the meticulously mysterious surveys of, for instance, club might be less about the drawings, and wacky mod• Spain and safety. Two years disciplines' growing cultural els by avant-garde architects ago, the Prada Foundation significance, and more about conveying the wonders of in Milan had to turn back the fact that high or "elite" the future to a head-scratch• crowds clamoring to see an culture seems to be on its ing audience. Blockbuster idiosyncratic but compelling way out. Museums, increas• retrospectives on signature collection of materials under ingly pressured to be prof• architects like Frank Lloyd research and development itable, are keen on producing Wright and . by the profession's most bankable crowd-pleasers. A show dedicated to the eccentrically thoughtful Relevance is ever more sneaker. When Rawsthorn architects. determined by attendance, stretched the definition of and Herzog & de Meuron. not by the amount of design so far beyond form Why that show never went enlightenment that has been and function to embrace to a museum or wasn't con• spread. No more the marbled Constance Spry, a flower- ceived by one in the first place containers of culture's most arranger for 1950s British is even more perplexing. preciously regarded objects, society, it was the last straw In 1968 MoMA staged museums today function for the old guard at the a legendary show, called more like malls than cathe• Design Museum. Certainly, The Machine, cu rated by drals. The quiet contempla• good design is polymorphous K.G Pontus Hulten. Even the tion of art is just one stop in and diffuse, but the problem exhibition's catalogue, with a multiplex assortment of is that most shows miss the its pressed and colorized pleasures: movies, tours, chance to convey to a general metal cover showing the M-Series Linear Fluorescent lectures, interactive demos audience that design is more museum's fagade, was for the kids, shops. The than stuff that looks cool. memorable. The uninhibited Total design flexibility and architectural precision with clean, continuous Blanton Museum of Art in Unlike painting, sculpture, exhibition ranged far, includ• row mounting, mitered corners and custom configurations. Austin, Texas, recently sent video art, et cetera, architec• ing paintings by Kasimir, out a press release boasting ture and design are not just Malevich and James a $10 million grant for a about singular visions (like Rosenquist, a reconstructed new expanded cafe. Take Spry's or Gehry's or Hadid's- model of Vladimir Tatlin's www.selux.com/usa se'lux that, artworks-deep-sixed- not that they are undeserving Constructivist tower, Light. Ideas. Systems, in-storagel It is hardly an subjects). Like fine arts, Buckminster Fuller's 800.735.8927 exaggeration to say that the architecture and design Dymaxion car; a camera Minneapolis Museum of Art reflect the particular values owned by the Lumiere makes more of a civic contri• of a society and the idiosyn• Brothers as well as a Nam bution with its neo-gothic cratic perspective of the June Paik video work. Art, Quadracci Pavilion designed maker. But too few exhibi• architecture, graphics, and by Santiago Calatrava—and tions convey the vast and design were all equal play• booked months in advance complicated networks that ers in the mix. It must have for weddings—than its architecture and design been exhilarating. Showing little-bit-of-everything art involve. As applied arts, the us how art and architecture, collection. design fields are about func• design and technology The notion of treating tion, progress, the deploy• cross-over and feed each architecture and design as ment of resources on a mass other as well as nurture our museum-worthy subjects scale. They have the power, collective selves will always is only as old as the MoMA, unlike a Matthew Barney be the best any curator and still very much in film or Richard Serra sculp• can do. progress. While other cura• ture, to influence the way we JULIE V. lOVINE CONTRIBUTES tors have inherited a canon work and live and occupy TO THE NEW YORK TIMES AND this planet. shaped and distorted by the IS FEATURES EDITOR AT ELLE centuries, architecture and Signs of a greater appetite DtCOR. SEND COMMENTS TO design curators are making for a more nuanced menu JIOVINE@>ARCHPAPER.COM.

TERMINAL CAPACITY continued from front Glass windscreens surround the public areas page World Financial Center. (In 2003, the to shelter visitors, but the building itself is temporary terminal was moved roughly not environmentally sealed. Heating ele• 400 feet north of the project site to make ments on columns, however, will keep tem• way for the erection of these piers.) peratures inside the terminal comfortable I When the terminal opens in the beginning throughout the winter. of 2007, it will be a recognizable addition The terminal will not only serve ferry pas• to the waterfront, with its dramatic roof. At sengers but the general public, with conces• night the up-lit fabric will glow and during sions and other open areas. "Anyone who the day it will catch daylight and radiate it wants to meander down there can do so," into the pavilion below. said Fram. While a visible, luminous presence on the The World Financial Center Ferry Terminal waterfront was important to the designers, is the latest in a series of Port Authority- a bigger concern was transparency. "The designed projects in Lower Manhattan. The key thing about it," said Fram, "is that it's an PA's architecture and engineering office was extension of the esplanade. We wanted to also responsible for the WTC Site Viewing keep it as open as possible in terms of use Wall and the WTC Temporary PATH Station. and not obstruct the view of the water." The Currently, the PA is working on the terminal links passengers to land via two modernization of Newark Liberty Airport's glass-covered, ADA-compliant gangways Terminal B, which will begin construction that penetrate the bulkhead of the esplanade. this summer, AARONSEWARD >- -o LU

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With nearly half of the Estonian popula• tion suffering from seasonally affective disorder (SAD) syndrome, a depression caused by changes in the weather, the -J Baltic nation's capital, Tallinn, throws < a party at the height of winter to keep spirits high. Running from Christmas to the end of February, the centerpiece of < the Tallinn Light Festival is a collection A of art projects whose themes reflect the essence of the event: light, ice, and fire. In the heart of Tallinn's medieval town Ql square, an igloo, designed by Tallinn- O based architecture firm Zizi & Yoyo, activates the cold public space with win• tertime-oriented activities. Veronika Valk, principal of Zizi & Yoyo, said, "Igloo sug• > ONISHIGALLERY/GALLERYMEMORIA gests a more varied understanding of 515 West 26th Street, New York Tel: 212-695-8035 what street-lighting could be all about." Designer: Jose Salinas, Knobs Design Instead of using the traditional ice-con• struction method, the architects poured 'rhe Onishi Gallery/Gallery Memorial is a departure from the neutral white snow and ice into precast molds to erect cube: With glossy white epo.xy floors and drwall polished to a high sheen, the structure. The 240-square-foot igloo the space unabashedly makes its own artistic statement. The 1.5()()-.squaie ART FESTIVAL LIGHTENS UP could fit 15 people and served refresh• foot space, designed by jose Salinas of Knobs Design, houses two galleries: "SAD" TOWN ments inside or via a walk-up window. An the Onishi Gallery, devoted to lapanese contemporary art, and Gallery estimated 10,000 people used the space Memoria, which contains a permanent exhibition of Buddhist altars. To before the festival ended in February. Valk di\'ide the two spaces, the architect created a "mediating wall," an oblong explained thatthe igloo's vision of a warm shelving unit that encourages a circular path. "Organizing the space into TALLINN nightscape sought to retain Tallinn as a a circle emphasizes the theme of past and contemporary combined," said unique northern capital that is "bubbling Salinas. While the Onishi (jallery is nK>re conventional in its display of with ideas for emerging illumination art." art, Galler\' Memoria re.sembles a shrine imagined by a designer from For next year, Zizi & Yoyo plan on combining this year's installation with .Apple. Rows of glowing inset shelves exhibit various lapanese artifacts; SHINES last year's (See "Up, Up, and Away" AN as the centerpiece of the gallery, these shelves emit an ethereal, technologi• 05_03.23.2005). The light dome, which cal light th.it is at once hypnotic and contemplative. The unit becomes they designed with Winy Maas of MVRDV a point of reference in the space. It is unusual for a gallery to achieve a and featured large floating balloons, will sense of spirituality, but then again Onishi Gallery/Gallery Memoria isn't BRIGHT be combined with 10 igloos to form an igloo hotel, GUNNAR HAND \'(>lll' ( 'hi'lMM g,lllcr\'. JESSE FINKELSTEIN

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features a long, thin gallery for Diller Scofidio + Renfro's (DS+R) ground floor public lobby and had to be anchored on piles view of the water was achieved flat artworks. Its cladding system, first museum commission, a cafe, an outdoor grandstand flows reaching 160 feet down to through the use of a horizontal a Pilkington glass wall with a 65,000-square-foot home for into a 325-seat theater on the sec bedrock. "It was amazing how floor beam and two hangers that lenticular film applied to the inte• Boston's Institute of Contem• ond floor, expressing the conti• soft the ground was," said Flavio don't require diagonal bracing. rior surface, creates the effect of porary Art (ICA), is going up on nuity between public and private Stigliano, ICA project manager Working with a small budget, a moving view—the glass is the city's long underused water• stages with a continuous floor clad at DS+R. "The drill went down in the architects used conventional transparent when faced straight front. Slated for completion in in South American mahogany. a matter of seconds, like a knife materials in unique ways. With on, but seen from an angle it June and opening this September, The theater's transparent glass through melted butter." the objective of evenly daylight- appears opaque. the building's massively can- walls can be modulated with Due to the tenuous nature of ing the ceiling, DS+R researched tilevered galleries and mixed three levels of shades—acoustic, the piles—according to Stigliano, the best skylight geometries for Facing north, the direct sun• public and private spaces will translucent, and blackout— up to 20 percent could fail over the 17,000 square feet of gallery light exposure to the Long anchor the Fan Pier waterfront allowing for increased perform• time—the firm had to build in space. The firm settled on a Gallery—which runs horizontally redevelopment. The building is ance privacy when necessary. redundant structure, at serious double-angled fin shape, which across the width of the museum— the first step in the long-delayed The fluid envelope encases class• additional cost. A grid of four- bounces light off its interior sur• will be minimal, but the space will plan to revitalize the 21-acre rooms and administration space foot-deep concrete beams rests face down into the space, and off still need to be curated with non- stretch of properties held by on the second and third floors on the piles, serving as a platform its exterior shell across to the next light-sensitive works. Since the the Pritzker family—owner of before folding back out over the to support eight megacolumns fin. Beneath the skylights, a scrim museum has just completed its the Hyatt Hotel Corporation— waterfront. The galleries, con• and four megatrusses spanning of 70 percent translucent white framing, DS+R will be able to see along Boston Harbor. In this con• tained on the building's top floor the entire length of the building. nylon, manufactured by the the light effects of their gallery text, the building is, according to and cantilevered 75 feet toward "In order to have column-free Italian company Bergamo Fabrics, designs in the next several months. principal Elizabeth Oilier, "an ally the water, over the grandstand galleries, we stitched the space filters the light in a "smooth, well- With more experience working to the arts, standing outside the and public harbor walkway, are between the trusses with steel balanced way," said Stigliano. as artists than architects, DS+R meant to shelter an outdoor room. debate of whether a museum's joists," said Stigliano. Besides the On the exterior, three sides worked on the project from "the architecture is protagonist or looming cantilever, the most other side," according to Diller. Given the unstable condition of the gallery are clad in another backdrop." unsettling element of the design The variety of spaces, ambigu• of the waterfront terrain, and the luminous system, with glass is the much-discussed ously shading back and forth The ribbon-like building folds soft landfill separating ground channel planking which contain Mediatheque, a room that hangs between public and private, up from the harbor's edge, weav• from bedrock beneath the site, 18-inch cavities that function as from the underside of the can• reveal the firm's concern for all ing indoor and outdoor public the massive gallery cantilever rainscreens and are backlit for a tilever, "like an open mouth," he constituents of architecture. space into the private spaces of presented a challenging structur• glowing effect at night. The fourth said. The resulting horizon-less the museum. Adjacent to the al problem. The museum's frame side, which faces the waterfront. DEBORAH GROSSBERC

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"Top of the Rock" for a skyline view LANDMARK IS REBORN AS AN ICON of NYC begins 70 floors below EPILOGUE FOR A SYNAGOGUE in the lobby, where an elegant, winding staircase sets a dramatic tone. On March 19, six finial towers were placed Clockwise from top left: The atop the Eldridge Street Synagogue, Project included the restoration of stoneworl< When architects for the rejuvenation of to the 120-year-old synagogue; a view of the located on Eldridge Street between Canal interior; a window showing the star of David; 30 's and Division in the Lower East Side of stained-glass windows were painstakingly Manhattan, marking the completion of the cleaned and repaired. Observation Deck wanted to building's fa?ade restoration. The impor• tance of the finial towers' restoration is that Built in 1887, the synagogue is currently create this singular experience, they figuratively represent the arc that holds being restored to become an educational ornamental metal helped them the torah scrolls in the main sanctuary, the and cultural center whose focus will be on most sacred feature in the entire synagogue. the role of architecture and immigration in achieve a pinnacle of inspired design. Originally removed in 1960 due to persistent New York City and in Jewish culture. Amy maintenance problems, their replacement Stein Milford, press and community relations ceremoniously represents the rebirth of the director at the Eldridge Street Project (ESP), landmark after a six-year restoration process. said, "The synagogue continued on page 11

GREENPOINT AND WILLIAMSBURG Brooklyn's Community Board 1 on March 7 WATERFRONT PLANS ADVANCE also seemed encouraging. The plans, drafted by Brooklyn-based Donna Walcavage Landscape Architecture + Urban Design with architectural consult• LAST COAST ants Weisz + Yoes, lighting consultant Leni Schwendinger, and engineer Malcolm McClaren, are in early stages of design. STANDING Their basic program is to interweave and The waterfronts of Queens, Manhattan, and unify the coast amid a number of new high- Brooklyn Heights are not the only water• rise developments. fronts with grand plans. In mid-February, "We're trying to plan for sites that don't a meeting between the team planning the have a set developer," said Claire Weisz of Greenpoint/Williamsburg waterfront and Weisz + Yoes. "The whole thing has to work the site's developer—the New York City as a waterfront park, but it doesn't have Transforming Economic Development Corporation to be monolithic." In 2004, the waterfront (EDO—suggests that plans for the area are redevelopment plan consisted of just a pro• design aspirations into reality ready to move forward. A presentation to posal for a ferry terminal and a small park that incorporated a short esplanade at the end of Greenpoint Avenue. Now, the water• front redevelopment has evolved into a full- scale landscaped park that covers much of the length of the rezoned site, from ^ Ornamental Metal Institute of New York in Williamsburg to the northern tip of 211 EAST 43RD STREET • NEW YORK, NY 10017 -212-697-5554 • www.omlny.org Greenpoint. The EDC is keeping the prelimi• nary designs under wraps, but according to both Walcavage and Weisz, the project For help achieving your design goals, contact the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York. will move forward quite quickly, with sever• Greenpoint waterfront as it appears today. al upcoming design deadlines, JAFFER KOLB c/) O

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EPILOGUE FOR A SYNAGOGUE continued from designed to be flexible depending on the RESPECT FRESH FACE page 9 serves as an aesthetic inspiration for user because the synagogue is a part of the On February 27, President George W. On March 7, the Metropolitan the many activities that occur within it." interpretation by the public and worship Bush designated the African Burial Museum of Art officially finished its ESP was founded in 1986 by Roberta by the congregation." This is of particular < Ground, located at Duane and Elk $12.2 million, four-year-long exterior Brandes Gratz, an urban journalist and concern when considering the many events LU streets in downtow/n Manhattan, a cleaning. The limestone fagade had a member of Landmarks Preservation ESP puts on, such as concerts, tours, lectures, national monument. The memorial, not been cleaned since the museum's Commission, in order to fully restore the and festivals. designed by Rodney Leon, won a opening 104 years ago. Only water structure. The building underwent an Walter Sedovic Architects specialize in competition last spring to commemo• was used to clean the building. emergency stabilization in 1989 and in 1990 what Gotthelf calls a "philosophy of sustain• rate the Negroes Burial Ground, which Robert E. Meadows completed a restoration able preservation." The entire fagade was is believed to hold the remains of master plan for the structure. The current poured with pure lime mold instead of nearly 15,000 people. The $3 million MCMOVES $12 million project was initiated in 2000. The concrete to save water. Fly ash from power memorial and the $5 million visitor's most recent phase, the fagade restoration, plants was recycled into the concrete mix• Matilda McOuaid has been appointed center, located adjacent to the memo• began last July. Gratz commented, "After ture for the foundation, salvaged materials the deputy curatorial director at rial site in the Ted Weiss federal a 20-year effort, the fagade restoration is a and fixtures were reused wherever possible, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design building, will be completed next fall. milestone in our history and in the history and recycled construction materials were Museum. McOuaid joined the institu• of this community's cultural treasures." utilized for the new kitchen and bathrooms. tion in 2001 as the exhibitions cura• Initially charged with rehabilitating the The preservation architects contend that tor. In her new position, she will lead city, state, and nationally recognized historic the act of recycling an existing building into NEWTOWN, the launch of the new Online National landmark, ESP began developing its cultural a new use is the most sustainable aspect of Design Museum. OLDVALUES and historical programs in the 1990s once the whole project. momentum began to pick up on the preser• Predictably, the hardest challenge in the Growing concern over the new town vation project. While the small congregation, restoration project was funding. "People of Ave Maria in southwestern Florida BORDER K'hal Adath Jeshurun, owns and worships don't want to fund the stuff [mechanical has boiled over into threats of a law• in the structure, Milford said that they fully systems and infrastructure] that is not suit. The town's developers, Barron PATROL support the building's transformation and pretty," said Gotthelf. During the first phase Collier Company and Thomas S. On March 7, the Port Authority of adaptive reuse. of restoration, the City of New York came Monaghan, the founder of Domino's New York & New Jersey announced Once fully complete, the restored build• through and provided nearly $4 million for Pizza, proposed certain prohibitions the creation of an "invisible fence" ing will feature a ground-level history and infrastructure upgrades and the installation in the town, including banning the around the city's airports. By 2007, interpretive center as well as new offices, of mechanical systems. sale of contraceptives and abortions. Newark, JFK, and LaGuardia will be classrooms, a multimedia area, a genealogy ESP still has S2.5 million left to raise On March 3, the developers announced blanketed by a $140 million Perimeter room, and fully restored main and down• in order to complete the final phase of the that no restrictions would be placed Intrusion Detection System. The sys• stairs sanctuaries. Jill Gotthelf, project restoration, which it anticipates to be com• on stores but that the town is still tem, already in use in Baghdad and architect for Walter Sedovic Architects, pleted by the end of 2007. being built in accordance with "family Israel, includes radar, infrared imaging, explained, "The inserted programs were GUNNAR HAND values." The 5,000-acre development, motion detectors, and surveillance which will house more than 20,000 cameras. The security system was residents and include a university, is designed by defense contractor WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM scheduled for completion next year Raytheon Co.

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THE FUTURE SKYLINE OF QUEENS BEARS A SUPERFICIAL RESEMBLANCE TO JERSEY CITY: MORE THAN A DOZEN TALL BUILDINGS ARE PLANNED TO RISE ALONG THE QUEENS WATERFRONT AND, AS A RESULT OF SPECIAL DISTRICT ZONING, MANY PATC OTHERS ARE IN THE WORKS IN LONG ISLAND CITY AND HUNTERS POINT. AS D. GRAHAME SHANE REPORTS, CITY THE DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING'S SURGICAL APPROACH TO ZONING IS STIMULATING STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE BOROUGH, PROMISING A SERIES OF DYNAMIC URBAN PATCHES- AS WELL AS SOME AWKWARD SEAMS.

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While New Yorkers witnessed an epic battle nascence as a cultural district. The same year, scale and introduced Special District zoning. DCP (then directed by Joseph Rose) to devise for the top-down control of the World Trade the Group of 35, a panel created by Senator Based on a 1916 zoning ordinance addressing the Queens Plaza Special District (approved in Center site, replete with power players chan• Charles Schumer representing public and pri• skyscrapers downtown. Special Districts under 2001) that featured incentive bonuses and neling Robert Moses, the New York Department vate interests, issued a report calling for the the Urban Design Group began as relatively Urban Design Guidelines that called for broad of City Planning (DCP) has been quietly leading creation of a new business district in LIC, sug• simple mechanisms to protect small residen• setbacks, new parks, and ground-floor retail to an urban planning revolution with a small-scale, gesting 15 million square feet of office space tial communities like Little Italy and Chinatown enliven the street. The lots that Arete sought bottom-up approach throughout the boroughs. and citing the benefits of a planned—though from large-scale development. Later, the con• (which have since gone to Tishman Speyer) The unveiling last month of sadly now defunct—"word-class intermodal cept was applied to create a Theater Special were upzoned to Floor Area Ratio (FAR) 12, Partnership's design of a massive mixed-use transit station" at Sunnyside Yards. (The yard District, to protect Broadway theaters and signaling a dense future for LIC. project on the Queens waterfront for Silvercup has a small LIRR stop and a ferry terminal allow the transfer of their valuable air rights to The city has also responded to pressure Studios portends a dense, monumental future nearby; the plan for the hub would have fold• neighboring sites. This system of controlled from public interest groups, like the Municipal for the low-scale, still-industrial area. But vari• ed in stops for Amtrak, NJ Transit, and the zoning patches evolved into a complex, three- Arts Society, the Regional Plan Association, ous rezonings throughout Queens—including MTA, whose routes all cross there.) dimensional, multifunctional, incentive-based and the Van Alen Institute. The latter organized Long Island City, Hunters Point, and a dozen The intensification of development in Queens design methodology that paved the way for the Queens Plaza competition in 2001-2002, other neighborhoods—are in fact setting the has actually been in process for some time. Cooper and Eckstut's 1978 masterplan of which addressed the need to do something framework for more incremental development In 1984, the Port Authonty of New York & Battery Park City about the gloomy stretch of roadway beneath in the borough, encouraging a unique fabric New Jersey (PA) took over a large portion Under Amanda Burden, who has been the noisy Queensborough Bridge. In 2002, the of mixed uses, spaces, scales, densities, and of the Queens docklands and, together with the planning commissioner and director of the city selected Margie Ruddick as a lead consult• textures. Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC), DCP since 2002, Special Districts zoning has ant (on a team that initially included Michael From its colonial beginning New York was created a 74-acre development patch under evolved further still, to encompass micro- Sorkin and Michael Singer) to develop a land• part of an archipelago, a network of small the auspices of the Queens West Development patches of upzoning, downzoning, mixed-use, scape design that would improve the public patches of European settlements connected Corporation (QWDC). QWDC follows the and historic and industrial preservation. Her spaces, lighting, traffic flow, and general by boats. New Amsterdam, Brooklyn, Hoboken, Battery Park City model of development (also LIC Mixed-Use Special District was in fact her streetscape of Queens Plaza. Ruddick, who and . The large open spaces of Queens created by the ESDC), with phased parcels bid first exercise, and presaged similar strategies is now collaborating with Marpillero/Pollak, have always attracted those unable to find to separate developers. Two buildings have in Greenpoint-Williamsburg, East Harlem, and described her intention to make "the left-over accommodation in Manhattan, from the farm• been completed (one by Cesar Pelli, 1998, and Chelsea. spaces legible as a landscape that helps you ers and fishermen of the colonial period to the another by Perkins Eastman, 2001), and more This finely calibrated approach to zoning get from one place to another, making con• industrialists of the 19'" and 20'" centuries who than a dozen more are planned. Though far can be seen in three of current "hot patches" nections across the space under the bridge." deposited their ports, factories, warehouses, from complete. Queens West already appears of development in Queens: Her scheme emphasizes improved circulation; oil refineries, cement plants, and more in the to be isolated and out of scale with its sur• bicycle and pedestrian paths and crossings marshy headland bound by the East River and roundings, despite well-intentioned efforts to Queens Plaza Special Improvement District abound. Near the waterfront section, she has Newtown Creek. With its evolving transporta• create open spaces and waterfront views. Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Adult Entertainment planned a cathedral-like space under the bridge, which will act as a seam between the tion links—bridges, tunnels, ferries, and rail— By contrast, the DCP has adopted a more Zoning of the late 1990s exiled some of Times planned Silvercup West project and the heavy industry thrived in the area. The huge targeted approach to the rest of Queens, with Square's porn shops, strip clubs, and prostitu• Queensbridge Houses, a massive housing spaces that were carved out by industrial timely responses to particular urban actors in tion to this long-neglected industrial gateway. project built by the New York City Housing uses have taken on new meaning today, with particular locations. The DCP is actually build• Few paid attention to the area, until 2000 when Authority in 1941. The plan is currently under Manhattan's squeezed housing market and ing on an approach that was pioneered in the Michael Bailkin and Paul Travis of the Arete review by the Fine Arts Commission. changed attitudes about commuting. Suddenly, 1960s by Mayor John Lindsay's Urban Design Group tried to buy two large sites, including the rust-belt patches around Long Island City Group (members included Jonathan Barnett, a large city-owned garage, at the junction of are attractive real estate. Alexander Cooper, Jaquelin Robertson, Richard Queens Plaza and Jackson Avenue. The same Long Island City Mixed-Use Special In 2001, the Museum of Modern Art's tem• Weinstein, and Richard Dattner), which aban• developers bought the air rights to part of District (2004) porary move to Lie highlighted the area's doned masterplanning on a city-wide, regional Sunnyside Yards. Their moves prompted the Compared to the crude zoning of Queens

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Plaza, the LIC Mixed-Use Special District is Use Sub-District (approved 2004) borders the taining the "soul" of LIC. Fearing the large scale Eastman for Avalon Bay (2001) have sky• more finely textured and varied. The DCP Sunnyside Yards. Here, warehouses and facto• of development on the nearby waterfront, resi• scraper-shocked local residents into paying divided the area into three sub-districts, which ries, like the 254-unit Arris Building, are being dents have been organizing themselves into attention to what is happening to the rest of form a triangle around a gritty industrial core converted to residential lofts and offices. The groups, like the 49'" Street Block Association the waterfront. Local groups are starting to that will be preserved: The Long island City upzoning to FAR 7 and Urban Design and the Hunters Point Community Organization. pressure the QWDC to break down Queens Core Sub-District is a small enclave driven by Guidelines under study by the Volmer Group The city downzoned this patch within a general West's 1980s masterplan and work at a smaller developers and already contains Citigroup's are aimed at remaking Jackson Avenue into a FAR 5 intended to protect the arts area around scale. To deflect criticism, in 2004 the ESDC skyscraper at Court Square, the borough's first densely built commercial boulevard, containing the PS.1 cultural center. revised Phase II of the 1980s masterplan, tall building. This very compact, high-density 3 million square feet of offices stretching from which includes seven buildings by Rockrose, patch (zoned at FAR 12) has many tax incen• Court Square to Queens Plaza's subway node. Queens Waterfront (198Gs to present) with designs by Arquitectonica and Handel tives and has already attracted a second "The aim is to create a vibrant street life, with The small-scale flexibility of LIC's new mixed- Architects. Last year, State Assemblywoman Citigroup tower and United Nations Federal cafes, restaurants, and stores," said Burden. use subdistricts is nonexistent on the water• Catherine Nolan was quoted in the Queens Credit Union building, both under construction. The plan calls for widened sidewalks, tree front. As a state agency, the ESDC formulated Chronicle as saying, "I think it is appropriate The 1989 Citigroup tower, with its interior cafe• planting, kiosks, seating, and night lighting. Queens West with almost no community and past due time for Governor Pataki and teria and attached car park, never sponsored The density on Jackson Avenue decreases input, though pressure from Hunters Point res• Mayor Bloomberg to review the plan for street life. Under the revised Urban Design in the Hunters Point Mixed-Use Rezoning Sub- idents did ensure that a continuous land• Queens West and begin a dialogue with the Guidelines, both the new buildings will have District (approved in 2004). Individual urban scaped riverfront would be publicly accessible. community as to the importance of affordable street level retail to foster pedestrian activity actors predominate in this area, with small- The completion of the 42-story City Lights housing for the work soon to be scheduled on and new plantings, furniture, and parks. scale housing, auto-body shops, galleries, and tower by Cesar Pelli for Manhattan Overlook the southern portion of the site." The southern The neighboring Jackson Avenue Mixed- artists' studios. Burden saw this area as con• Associates (1998) and 32-floor tower by Perkins portion, known as Queens West South (Phase DEVELOPMENT DESCENDS ON QUEENS

RESIDENTIAL developers will add 100,000 square condos: interiors will be designed feet to the former Pennsylvania by Front Studio. Badge Building 1 Silvercup West Railroad Power House's existing Development LLC is a group of Owned by Alan and Stuart Match 150,000, converting the structure independent investors led by the Suna and designed by Richard into a residential complex. The building's current owner, who has Rogers Partnership, Silvercup West new building, designed by Karl been sitting on the property for the is a $1 billion mixed-use project Fischer Architect, will contain 190 last ten years. spread over 6 acres, and includes condominiums. Hunter's Point residential, commercial, cultural, 14 12-01 Jackson Ave. Industrial Core and civic spaces, in addition to 1 5, 6 The Gantry Hentze-Dor Real Estate is develop• million square feet of film-produc• 5-15 49th Ave. and 48-21 5th St. ing a 35-unit rental on an irregular• tion studios. The Milestone Group, based in New ly shaped lot on Jackson Avenue. Sunnyside Yards York City, will develop an existing : River East warehouse into 64 condos, designed ' Echaelon Condominiums 44-02 Vernon Blvd. by local firm Gerner Kronick + 13-11 Jackson Ave. Developed by Vernon Realty and Valcarcel Architects. The Gantry Ron Hershco of Jackson Realty LLC sited on 6 acres just south of will be ready for occupancy early is planning a 52-unit condominium Silvercup West, River East will con• this summer. designed by Newman Design Group tain 1.2 million square feet of resi• of Cold Spring Hill, New York. dential and commercial space. / 50th Ave. and 5th St. Occupancy is scheduled for late Rows of townhouses will lead to Developers Joseph Escarfullery spring of 2006. two 30-story towers on the river and Joseph Palumbo are planning and a newly landscaped esplanade. an 11-unit, high-end co-op on the w; Venus Site The WalkerGroup of New York site of a current parking lot. Queens Plaza North and 24th St. and its in-house V Studio, led by Developer Moshe Feller is report• architect Jay Valgora, are master- 8 5-49 Borden Ave. edly working on a condo building planning the site and designing the 535 Borden LLC has been working that will house 320 units. buildings. with New York architect Juan Alayo to develop a 12-story, 132- 17 24-15 Queens Plaza North 3 Queens West unit residential building. The pro• Karl Fischer Architect is planning The Queens West Development ject's backers are presently closing alterations to an existing 50,000- Corporation (QWDC), a subsidiary on the sale of the lot to another square-foot office building for an of the Empire State Development developer. The sale includes the unnamed developer. I I DCP/EDO Proposed Open Space Commercial Development Sites I I Destination Sites I ' and Streetscape Projects Corporation, has divided their large architectural plans, which, as of waterfront site into four develop• now, will remain unchanged, IH 42-37 Crescent St. Residential Development Sites Existing Parks ment phases. Owner Ruben Elberg of Royal Phase II, contracted to Rockrose I East View Condos One Real Estate and Karl Fischer 23 42-51 Hunter St. 2 United Nations Federal 5 QPSite Development Corporation will 10-40 46th Rd. Architect are planning a 16-unit A small group of investors under Credit Union Tishman Speyer is razing several contain seven buildings with 3.000 The East View Condos are in devel• condominium building with two the name 42-51 Hunter Street LLC 24th St. and 45th Dr. low-scale commercial buildings residential units and 20,000 square opment by owner Henry Khanali ground-floor commercial spaces. is developing a seven-story condo With a tentative completion date and a parking lot. the former site of feet of commercial space. The first and the New York architecture firm Completion is expected mid-2007. building with Manhattan firm Israel of this September, the $65 million the QP flea market, and likely build• two buildings have been designed Bricolage Designs, The ground-up Peles Architects. United Nations Federal Credit ing office space in addition to that by Arquitectonica; one will be construction will be five stories, with 19 42-59 Crescent St. Union building, designed by HLW across the street at the Queens completed in May, and the other an as-yet undetermined number of Adjacent to 42-37 Crescent Street, 24 41-23 Crescent Street international, will be the second all Plaza Municipal Garage. The lot is broke ground this month. Handel units, and should be completed by the same developer-architect team No information available. commercial highrise in Long Island owned by businessman Bill Modell. Architects have designed a third the summer of 2007. will build another residential project City, after the 1.4-million-square- building, with construction to begin with retail space. 42-59 Crescent 25 The Queens Plaza foot Skidmore. Owings and Merrill- r- Gaseteria Site late 2006. Arquitectonica will design 10 41-43 47th Ave. will be slightly bigger, at 24 units, 41-26 27th St. designed Citigroup tower, complet• (See above.) at least one more building, and No information available. and completed by early 2007. The Developers Group of New York ed in 1989. the other two are as-yet uncommis• is planning a 10-story. 66-unit condo OPEN SPACE sioned. II Vantage Jackson 20 45-56 Pearson St. building just north of the Queens 3 Citigroup, Phase II Avalon Bay Communities is 10-50 Jackson Ave. Rosma Development of New York is Plaza Improvement Project. Citigroup is several months into Queens Plaza Improvement Project developing phase I, just south This 13-story building is being set to build a 20-story project on a the construction of its second office In 2001 the Department of City of Rockrose's, Its first residential developed by the Lions Group with 30,000 square-foot site, creating 120 26 27-14 41st Ave. buidling in the neighborhood, next Planning began implementing a tower was completed in 2001 and Emmy Homes, and will contain 35 condos that should be ready by 2007. 41st Avenue Property LLC. with door to its 48-floor tower, the tallest plan to improve Queens Plaza, the the second broke ground early to 40 units. Queens-based architect Surja Widjaja building in the boroughs. Designed boulevard that runs from Sunnyside this year, and will be completed by 21 Arris Condominiums of Maison Design, is planning a 24- by Kohn Pedersen Fox. the second Yards to the Queensborough Bridge. May of 2007. Both were designed 12 10-63 Jackson Ave. 27-28 Thompson Ave. unit. 8-story residential building. building will be significantly smaller, The plan includes extensive infra- by Perkins Eastman. A third lot on MKF Realty is planning a 40-unit The Andalex Group is planning an at 475.000 square feet and 14 floors. structural improvements, including Avalon Bay's site will likely serve building just west of the Polaski $80 million conversion of a 1920s 27 Gaseteria Site An estimated 1.800 Citibank new roadways and subway station renovations, as well as an extensive as either a public park or a branch Bridge, Completion expected in warehouse into a mix of 237 lofts Northern Blvd. and Queens Blvd. employees will be housed in the new building, which will be com• landscape scheme by Philadelphia- of Queens' Public Library. early 2007. and 17 studios. Costas Kondylis Oil company Gaseteria has part• pleted in 2007. based Margie Ruddick, which would Phases III and IV, located partially and Partners is completing the nered with Lowe Enterprises Real extend a lush, pedestrian-friendly on the Olympic Village site, have no 13 Badge Building design, which will involve a total Estate to develop a site bordering esplanade to the East River water• developers attached, but will likely 10-55 47th Ave. overhaul of the interiors as well as Long Island City's Sunnyside Yards 4 Queens Plaza Municipal Garage front. see the type of mixed-use projects Bricolage Designs is designing an exterior restoration. into a mixed-use complex with Tishman Speyer recently signed a as the first two phases. The QWDC eight-story ground-up building that a projected 400 housing units, in 99-year lease for the city-owned is considering keeping parts of the will be attached to an exisiting and 22 Vantage Purves addition to office and retail space. parking lot. and plans to raze the Olympic site plans. soon-to-be-refurbished four-story 44-27 Purves St. lot to build an office building with factory, s once manufactured Another development in the area COMMERCIAL underground parking. Recently PRODUCED BY JAFFER KOLB, 4 Power House medallions and badges. The build• by the Lions Group and Emma upzoned to 12 FAR. the site could WITH RESEARCH BY JESSE 50 -09 Second St. ing complex will contain 44 Homes Partnership, the Vantage 1 Silvercup West accept 1.5 million square feet of FINKELSTEIH, TERESA HER• Cheskel Schwimmer and CGS Purves will have 57 units. (See above.) development. RMANN. 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•o Gail Feske THURSDAY 30 MONDAY 3 Alvar Aalto, William Wurster, LECTURES LECTURES o WEDNESDAY 22 and Modern Architecture's Richard Burdett Ryue Nishizawa LECTURES 'New Humanism' Urban Transformation Recent Work Kate Ascher 7:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Greening Infrastructure: Columbia University GSAPP Pratt School of Architecture Princeton School of On the Road to Wood Auditorium Higgins Hall Auditorium Architecture 0- a Sustainable City 113 Avery Hall 200 Willoughby Ave, Belts Auditorium < 6:00 p.m. www.arch.columbia.edu Brooklyn www.princeton.edu/~soa CUNY Graduate Center www.pratt.edu 365 5th Ave., 9th FL TUESDAY 28 T. Gunny Harboe o www.cuny.edu LECTURES Carlos Enzo Frugiuele, Preserving the Legacy Mies: Alice Friedman Massimo Marinelli Current Work at the Illinois < Jeanne Gang Frank Lloyd Wright NYC and Milan Institute of Technology and Feminism Physicality's Territory 6:15 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Parsons the New School University of Pennsylvania Columbia GSAPP Columbia University GSAPP for Design 3101 Walnut St., Philadelphia Buell Center Wood Auditorium Glass Corner www.design.upenn.edu 113 Avery Hall 114 Avery Hall 25 East 13th St., 2nd Fl. RICHARD MISRACH: CHRONOLOGIES www.arch.columbia.edu www.arch.columbia.edu/buell www.parsons.edu Werner Sobek Pace/MacGill Gallery Archi-neering the Future 534 West 25th Street EXHIBITION OPENING Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Arno Rafael Minkkinen 6:30 p.m. March 25 through April 22 Tripping the Light Fantastic Video Selves: Parsons Aperture Yale School of Architecture Agora Gallery Bill Viola and Pipilotti Rist Lecture Series 180 York St., New Haven The exhibition Richard Misrach: Chronologies coincides 415 5:15 p.m. 6:30 p.m. www.architecture.yale.edu with the recent publication of the same name (Fraenkel www.agora-gallery.com Cornell University School Parsons the New School Gallery/D.A.P), a carefully curated, beautifully produced of Architecture for Design Reinhold Martin compilation of 125 images taken by the Berkeley photogra• THURSDAY 23 Sibley Hall, Ithaca Aperture Gallery Beyond "Non-Western" II: pher over the last three decades. The monograph and the LECTURE www.architecture.cornell.edu 547 West 27th St, 4th Fl. Rethinking the Professional exhibition at Pace/MacGill (plus a concurrent show at his Curriculum Enrique Penalosa www.parsons.edu San Francisco gallery, Fraenkel) have the air of a retrospec• A New Urban Paradigm: Gregory Chow 6:30 p.m. tive, giving viewers the chance to see the evolution of Building a Just and Globalization and China's Joseph Riley Columbia University GSAPP his interests, his eye, and his technique. Misrach defined Sustainable Metropolis Economic Transformation The Mayor as Urban Planner Wood Auditorium contemporary American landscape photography with his 6:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 113 Avery Hall important early work documenting the Western desert— City College Center for Architecture Yale School of Architecture www.arch.columbia.edu color-saturated portraits of the desert on fire, flooded, lit• Shepard Hall 536 LaGuardia PI. 180 York St., New Haven tered with unexploded military test bombs and poisoned animals, and territorialized by car-croquet players, a shuttle Convent Ave. and 138th St. www.aiany.org www.architecture.yale.edu TUESDAY 4 landing, speed racers. (Pictured above. Submerged www.ccny.cuny.edu LECTURE FILM Terence Riley Anne Walker, Peter Pennoyer Lamppost. Salton Sea, 1985.) His work consistently elicits surprise, horror, wonder, and other deep emotional SATURDAY 25 Corridor X Modern in a The Architecture of responses. No one has captured the reach and nature of LECTURE (Melitopoulos, 2006), 90 min. Post-Modern World Warren and Wetmore humankind's impact on the environment with more mes• Asia Dialogues: Fertile 7:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. merizing beauty than Misrach. Ground for Architecture Anthology Film Archives University of Pennsylvania General Society of Mechanics 1:00 p.m. 32 2nd Ave. 3101 Walnut St., Philadelphia and Tradesmen Center for Architecture www.storefrontnews.org www.design.upenn.edu 20 West 44th St. 536 LaGuardia PI. www.classicist.org www.aiany.org WEDNESDAY 29 EXHIBITION OPENINGS LECTURES Jack Pierson WEDNESDAY 5 EXHIBITION OPENING Barbara Barry, Cheim & Reid LECTURES Richard Misrach Louis Oliver Gropp 547 West 25th St. David Adjaye Chronologies Dialogues on Design: www.cheimread.com Making Public Buildings: PaceWildenstein The California Series Specificity, Customization, 534 West 25th St. 6:00 p.m. Geof Oppenheimer Imbrication www.pacewilderstein.com New York School Of The Project 6:00 p.m. Interior Design 37 West 57th St. Princeton School of MONDAY 27 69th Street Gallery www.elproyecto.com Architecture LECTURES 161 East 69th St. Betts Auditorium www.nysid.edu www.princeton.edu/~soa Barbara Faga, Alexander FRIDAY 31 Garvin, Gary Hack SYMPOSIA The Civic Theater of Christopher Janney On the Waterfront Tina Beebe, Buzz Yudell, Community Participation Resonating Frequencies: An Richard Burdett, Tom Louis Oliver Gropp Exploration of the Symbiotic Elghanayan, Alexander Dialogues on Design: for Architects, Landscape ENRIQUE PENALOSA Architects, Planners and Relationship Between Music Garvin, Christopher Glaisek, The California Series A NEW URBAN PARADIGM: Urban Designers and Architecture Bruce Kuwabara, Stuart 6:00 p.m. BUILDING A JUST AND SUSTAINABLE METROPOLIS 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Lipton, Thorn Mayna, New York School Of March 23, 6:30 p.m. Urban Center Center for Architecture Joseph Rose, Malcom Smith Interior Design Shepard Hall, Convent Avenue and 138th Street 457 Madison Ave. 536 LaGuardia PI. Yale School of Architecture 69th Street Gallery www.mas.org www.aiany.org 180 York St., New Haven 161 East 69th St. Following the enormous success of City College's first two www.architecture.yale.edu wvm.nysid.edu Lewis Mumford Lectures—the first, in 2004, was given by Wolf Prix Mark Cousins Jane Jacobs, and the second in 2005 was by Mike Davis— Beyond the Blue Case Studies in Urban Michael Rock ArchKecture and Enrique Penalosa, the former mayor of Bogota, Colombia, 6:30 p.m. Development: Seattle Fuck Content the Lost Object will deliver what promises to be a fascinating lecture on Columbia GSAPP Norm Rice, Bill Bain, et al. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. the potential of developing cities to advance new models Wood Auditorium Cornell University School Columbia University GSAPP Columbia University GSAPP of urbanism. Penalosa, who received a BA in economics 113 Avery Hall of Architecture Wood Auditorium Wood Auditorium from Duke University and a Masters in management www.arch.columbia.edu Sibley Hall, Ithaca 113 Avery Hall 113 Avery Hall from the University of Paris, is a member of the House www.architecture.cornell.edu www.arch.columbia.edu www.arch.columbia.edu of Representatives in Colombia, and is also currently a Phil Taylor, Laura Kurgan, presidential candidate. During his three-year mayoral term EXHIBITION OPENINGS Steven Johnson Daniel Perlin, et al. (1998-2001), Penalosa transformed Bogota into healthier city Big Box on the Basin: The Urban Web Architectural Dialogues: through the construction of new park space, community Reclaiming Red Hook's 6:30 p.m. The 2006 Biennial SATURDAY 1 facilities, housing, schools, civic spaces, bicycle paths Last Shipyard Yale School of Architecture 7:00 p.m. SYMPOSIUM (pictured), and efficient mass transit systems—all with a Urban Center 180 York St., New Haven Whitney Museum of Resurrection high level of citizen involvement. American Art 457 Madison Ave. www.architecture.Yale.edu Neil Levin, Toshiko Mori, The Lewis Mumford Lectures are an annual series 945 Madison Ave. www.mas.org Adrian von Buttiar, conceived by Michael Sorkin, director of the Graduate www.whitney.org Christopher Mount Joan Burkowitz, et al. Program in Urban Design, and brings urban design special• Energy/Experimentation Anarchy to Affluence, Design James Marston Fitch ists to talk about current practices, methodologies, and the FILM Black Artists and Abstraction, in New York 1974-1984 Colloquium future of urbanism in the U.S. and abroad. 1964-1980 6:30 p.m. Drawing Restraint 9 Columbia University GSAPP Studio Museum in Harlem Parsons the New School (Matthew Barney. 2006), Wood Auditorium 144 West 125th St. for Design 135 min. 113 Avery Hall www.studiomuseum.org Wollman Hall IFC Center www.arch.columbia.edu VISIT WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM 65 West nth St. 323 6th Ave. FOR COMPETITION LISTINGS www.parsons.edu vi/ww. ifccenter.com LIST YOUR EVENT AT DIARY aARCHPAPER.COM C/) 3 LU M > LLl

ical fabric, the relationship to the local land• EMBT Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagiiabue scape, and the growth of cultural tourism. Architectes* Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona (1996-2005) brinqs life to an With origins dating back to the 9"'-century old downtrodden market. B.C., and passing through the periods of the Iberians, Celts, Visigoths, Romans, Moors, Jews, Christians, Hapsburgs and Bourbons, Spain has a long and rich history that varies from region to region. Two of the opening projects in the exhibition, 's Murcia Town Hall Extension (1998) and EMBT On-Slte: New Architecture in Spain Arquitectes' Santa Caterina Market (2005) Museum of Modern Art, 11 West are careful, sensitive, and strong responses Through May 1,2006 to the issue of the historical context. As fin• ished buildings, both projects are represented in the exhibition by both a panel of text and images and a mural-size photograph taken by the German photographer Roland Halbe, who was commissioned to shoot all of the completed projects in the show. The Murcia Town Hall Extension, situated on the only open side of a historic plaza facing the 18"'-century fagade of the Murcia Cathedral, plays with Baroque ideals of order and ornament by offering a minimal box constructed out of local sandstone. The fagade, while mimicking the surrounding buildings in height and scale, is devoid of all ornament except for the irregular rhythm of thin piers, arranged along the floor slabs and highlighting a single, off-center balcony. Moneo, trained by Spanish master Francisco Javier Saenz de Oiza and Danish modernist J0rn Utzon, is undoubtedly one of Spain's most renowned architects. He recently com• pleted the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (2000) and the Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles (2002); his major extension for the Museo del Prado opens this On-Site: New Architecture in Spain is a color• projects to just 53. The exhibition features in Spain, as well as the high degree of public year in Madrid. It is interesting that Riley opted ful snapshot of contemporary architecture in work from two generations of architects interest and support for architecture there. to show the Murcia Town Hall Extension, Spain, and convincingly demonstrates just native to the country as well as a handful The projects Riley chose to include raise despite the fact that it was completed before how much good architecture is being built of famous firms from abroad; 35 of the proj• a number of questions about the nature of the period featured in the exhibition, in 1998. there today. It is also Terence Riley's final ects are or will be under construction in contemporary architecture in Spain, not all While this was perhaps a personal choice, exhibition as Chief Curator 2006, and the remaining 18 were completed of which are answered. Namely, besides aes• the Town Hall Extension very aptly represents of Architecture and Design at the Museum in the last six years. Framed in the context thetic quality, quantity, and diversity, what, Moneo's ability to engage in a dialogue with of Modern Art, so it is in some ways a more of the period after the dissolution of the if anything, specifically characterizes con• the past in a manner that is both respectful personal reflection of his interests than ear• authoritarian regime following Franco's temporary Spanish architecture? The works and playful. lier shows. Riley traveled extensively in Spain death in 1975 and Spain's admission into in the show highlight several issues that throughout the past year, visiting some 40 the European Union in 1986, the exhibition almost every architect working in Spain has The Santa Caterina Market similarly deals cities in order to whittle down the short list of represents the enormous diversity of work to address, among them, the layered histor• with a complex continued on page 19

measure that reflects changes in the now makes up only a sixth of an aver• median income. The other graph was age family budget. INFO a bar chart that showed the widening Despite numerous studies and com• gap among different income groups missions challenging its logic, and since the late 1970s—that is, after even the statement on the U.S. Census CENTER Richard Nixon dissolved the key Bureau website that the poverty agency of the War on Poverty in 1974. threshold is "not a complete descrip• The poverty line was originally tion of what people and families need Storefront for Art and Architecture developed as a way of determining a to live," it hasn't changed over the 97 Kenmare Street threshold for federal aid to individual past 40 years. Although most of the Closed February 18 families: below it, a household is con• Johnson-era initiatives couldn't change sidered poor. The original figure was the structural conditions of poverty, In the recent and graphically striking based on a Department of Agriculture they did help to mitigate its effects. The installation INFORMATIONatthe basic food budget for survival, and expansion of government programs Storefront for Art and Architecture, then multiplied by three, since food lowered racial barriers and improved Julie Ault and Martin Beck made a expenditures made up about a third the condition of the poor by opening powerful statement about how poverty of a family budget then. The figure is up access to social services and is defined and measured in the United adjusted for family size and has been affordable housing. The current tax States. The piece also served as a sharp updated annually to account for infla• policy on the other hand, has led to critique of our reliance on oversimpli• tion. However, it is a universal figure drastic cuts in such government pro• fied quantification of complex social that neither takes into account regional grams. With the gruesome aftermath of issues in general. With its dramatic differences in cost of living, nor radical Hurricane Katrina forcing Americans scale and minimalist aesthetics, changes in lifestyles and household to consider the poverty that many had INFORMATION'\s a powerful piece. expenditures. For instance, with long ignored, a concise and dramatic increasing numbers of women entering installation like INFORMATION ]s espe• The installation consisted of two the labor force, a typical family's cially timely and valuable. It provided graphs that illustrate the ever-growing childcare expenses have increased. a thought-provoking background for economic disparity in this country. One Moreover, according to the most this important debate. graph traced the official "poverty line" recent consumer expenditure patterns established under Lyndon Johnson's issued by the Bureau of Labor, food AYSE YONDER IS A PROFESSOR OF CITY AND 1964 War on Poverty in relation to the REGIONAL PLANNING AT PRATT INSTITUTE. 00 LU

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Holiday Home UN Studio and Imaginary Forces nstitute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania 118 South 36th Street Philadelphia Through March 29

project at its own scale. Visitors scale. Institutions rarely have the understand the Holiday Home not resources or the willingness to take through reading texts, drawings, or a risk that is necessary to accom• viewing other forms of representa• plish such a task. tion but walking barefoot through its Holiday Home is the first of two pink inner belly. At one particularly major exhibitions at the ICA this intriguing point, eleven different year showcasing developments in planes converge inside the space. architecture and design. This fall, One can easily imagine visitors the museum will present a landscape Exhibiting architecture is always an in nostalgia—the vacation or second phers and filmmakers. A great deal looking up at it and coming to a new installation by Peter Eisenman and enormous challenge. It is possible house—and stripped it bare. They of Holiday Home's power inheres understanding of how that space Laurie Olin featuring physical and to communicate buildings through have created an environment devoid in the way it extends this evocative, works and, potentially, other spaces perceptual elements of the pair's photographs, drawings, and models, of objects or anything else associ• fleeting moment into a state of they'll see someday. unbuilt environments. but how does one convey qualities ated with living spaces. Instead, being. Designers from the multime• The structure is comprised of SARA HERDA IS THE DIRECTOR OF of space such as scale or light? The Holiday Home is presented as an dia firm Imaginary Forces add over 82 different planes, manufac• STOREFRONT FOR ART AND Amsterdam-based architecture autonomous object without an another layerto this suspended tured in Europe by P-i-P Holzbau ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK. IN JULY, SHE WILL ASSUME THE DIRECTORSHIP OF office UN Studio, led by Ben Van imagined site or context other than feeling. As visitors enter into the GMBH and shipped to the ICA. All THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION IN CHICAGO. Berkel and Caroline Bos, deftly meet the gallery. It is a white vessel hol• space, images are projected in frag• told, the house contains 2,200 pieces the chaWenge in their current exhibi• lowed out with apertures that reveal mented, ghostlike form onto the which were assembled on the ICA's tion, Holiday Home, at the Institute a prismatic pink interior suffused faceted interior surfaces of Home. second-floor balcony gallery. The for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. with a warm light whose quality is This project achieves something flawless execution of the installa• WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM Van Berkel and Bos have revisited close to that magical moment just nearly impossible in an architecture tion belies the Herculean effort nec• a building type that is often wrapped before sunset, favored by photogra• exhibition—the experience of a essary to produce something at this

down a peg. The show's premise appears in initiatives like SoHo's . "It's red type on a poster: "New York is a city best hard to find good examples in New York," he experienced on foot, yet we design our said. "We went out of our way to be posi• Sidewalk streets for cars." When visiting the show, it is tive." But without more background on helpful to know that Livable Streets is actual• how our streets got this way, it is difficult to ly the kick-off event for an ambitious program see how to move forward. Panels trumpet called the New York City Streets Renaissance quotes from Richard Daley, Jan Gehl, Jane Critic Campaign, an advocacy effort to pressure City Jacobs, and Enrique Peiialosa, all discredit• Hall for pedestrian-friendly traffic reform. ing short-sighted planning moves that If the tone is more hortatory than reflective, degrade urban life. Below these, rainbow- it is because the show's organizers are as colored headings herald successful programs much activists as curators. from other cities. Seeking "great streets," the show lingers on New York's present short• Mark Gorton, the software programmer comings. who founded the campaign, wants to repro- gram New York City's streets with narrow The alternative—that poor traffic manage• vehicle lanes, landscaped plazas, and brick ment could make our streets unlivable— curb buffers. His wall texts fluently discuss should scare design professionals silly. Livable Streets neckdowns, planters, and other engineering Philadelphia and London and Copenhagen Municipal Arts Society details, and the show uses examples from compete with Gotham for taxpayers and tal• 457 cities around the world to bolster his argu• ent. Displays of planning innovation in these Through March 29 ment. There are also several attempts to bring cities make New York look backward. While that kind of urbanism to New York, if only in our casual jaywalking and bollard-hopping Like an afternoon walk in a great city, the the form of a rendering. A video depicts Astor may deepen our bravado, the callow plan• exhibition Livable Sfreefs sometimes annoys, Place with red-umbrella tables and ornate ning of squares like chip away at often exhilarates, and finally lingers. The pavers: It looks like a Parisian square. Boards the quality of daily life in the city. show, which is up at the Municipal Arts on Gansevoort Plaza show photos of Siena To amplify this point, the show needs to Society through the end of the month, invokes and renderings that highlight the river's reach an audience beyond just the usual classic urbanism to advance an agenda of proximity. Livable Streets' prescriptions for suspects. Tresa Homey, who worked on the transposing some Italian urbanity onto the wide sidewalks, pedestrian plazas, and traf• show for campaign member Transportation still-unruly Meatpacking District—regulate fic calming. It repeats itself, barrages you Alternatives, hopes to take it to Grand Central cab loitering, move Gansevoort and Little with images, privileges color over nuance, Terminal. The echoing dome and press of West 12'" Street in opposite directions, narrow and leaves you at once tired and curious. footfalls there would make the displays fight to 28 feet—are persuasive. While a conventional show might docu• for attention. And they would benefit from ment the intuitive ways New Yorkers use With a well-attended lecture series a good street brawl. They've got verve and As an experiment to fix traffic at streets, Livable Streets throws you off- accompanying the show, Gorton hopes color, but no dispute. And that is a requisite for great streets that is hard to design. in the Village (pictured 5 years ago, top), the balance. With oversized plans and photos that city planners will listen just as sharply Department of Transportation painted widened showing walkers fleeing onrushing trucks, it as the lecture guests have. To that end, the ALEC APPELBAUM WRITES ABOUT THE URBAN crosswalks (center), which had a positive effect, takes our rosy notions of activity-filled streets exhibit features a board on good planning ENVIRONMENT AND IS A CONTRIBUTOR TO AN. so they were permanently widened (below). OS

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SNAPSHOTS OF SPAIN continued from page 17 nearby, like the Hotel Habitat (2007) by Enric RCR Arquitectes' Casa Rural in the northeastern province historical context in a sensitive yet light- Ruiz Geli/Cloud 9 with Acconci Studio and of Girona consists of eleven simple steel-clad rooms that hearted way. Located in a dilapidated part Ruy Ohtake, with its pulsating multi-colored are connected by an underground corridor. of Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, this work LED matrix facade. modernizes a 19"'-century market while main• Although the projects in the exhibition taining a clear connection to the previous represent some of the best work being built structure and neighborhood. Spanning the in Spain at the moment, their presentation original masonry walls, a wooden roof cov• is too superficial to substantiate their great• ered with bright hexagonal tiles ripples over ness. Lacking a comprehensive narrative and a treelike metal-and-concrete support struc• grouping projects haphazardly, the show I ture, advertising the shops inside. EMBT's avoids answering the question of "Why proposal was originally developed as an Spain, why now?" in favor of a broad survey alternative to the city government's haphaz• of works. Furthermore, while each unbuilt ard urban renewal campaign projects. project is illustrated by a beautifully-crafted Contemporary architects choose to reflect model worthy of MoMA's permanent collec• on Spain's unique landscape in different tion, the exhibition panels favor text over ways—one of the projects that most literally large images and plans, but offer little histori• recalls the physical characteristics of the site cal context or biographical information on is Mansilla-t-Tuhon's design for the Museum the architects. There is no discussion, for of Cantabria in Santander, which will be com• instance, of the experimentation that was plete in 2009. Located in northern Spain's cultivated in Spain even under Franco's Cantabrian Mountains, the museum consists reign, from the 1950s onward, by such mas• of a cluster of dramatic concrete shafts con• ters as Saenz de Oiza, Alejandro de la Sota, ceived to resemble the region's distinctive Miguel Fisac, and Jose Antonio Coderch. mountain peaks. In plan, the clustering effect For that visitors will have to turn to the sup• gives way to a grouping of cellular galleries plementary catalogue, Spain Builds, by the with partitions that can be removed and editors of Madrid's Arquitectura Viva. organically repositioned according to need. What the exhibition does offer is a glimpse RCR Arquitectes takes a more abstract of the best contemporary architecture in approach in their Casa Rural, which comprises Spain from the point of view of an outsider a series of Cor-ten steel boxes aligned atop an who, like Riley, backpacked through Spain in embankment amidst the rolling pastures of 1975. During this trip, Riley was struck by the Girona province. While the boxes evoke how eager young architects were to publicize nized future, as the presence of projects by quantity, and diversity in architecture, the regional vernacular farm buildings, they their work abroad, although they worked in as , Zaha Hadid, which is why the exhibition is valuable, even also create private niches for the inhabitants what was then still a relatively closed society. and Rem Koolhaas suggests. The difference if there is little thematic structure to guide and shelter the house's more intimate func• Now, more than 30 years since Franco's today is that young Spanish architects are the viewer through it. tions. Unfortunately, in the exhibition, the death and 20 since Spain's admission into also contributing significantly to the global ELISE S. YOUN IS A WRITER AND CURATOR IN quiet rigor of the Casa Rural is overshadowed the European Union, the country is well on flow of architectural culture. Riley seems to NEW YORK AND A FORMER EDITOR AT AV by other more spectacular projects displayed its way to a more open but perhaps homoge- recognize the importance of such quality. MONOGRAPHS/ARQUITECTURA VIVA IN MADRID.

The Alliance for Downtown New York presents Downtown Third Thursdays 2006 A lecture series featuring prominent architects, authors and historians exploring themes and issues of particular relevance to Lower Manhattan.

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Quite cute, assuming by Kenneth Frampton, who points out that the book "will o that it is the message. With Sadler's previous book. The prove invaluable to all future accounts of British architec• Q. Situationist C/rv(MIT Press, 1999), he successfully trans• CO tural culture during the 1960s"?This is especially irritating mitted what he describes as the Situationist International's LU because Frampton, a natural reactionary, has consistently "passion for maps," with an image of one of Guy kept Archigram and its progeny out of his view and pre• Debord's psycho-geographic maps on the cover. So we sumably hopes that it can remain ineffectually up a little SIMON SADLER have to take our book cover as a strategic statement. British creek somewhere. Being on the receiving end of any number of diffusions At a certain point, the footnotes, the challenging book of time, memory, categorization, assumption, and most cover, that bit of blurb, and the predicament of a com• of all, intellectual convenience, we—Archigram—are mentator—any commentator—start to coalesce. A constantly bracing ourselves for people getting it wrong. book such as this massages the culture of text, wittingly The Archigram Group was a coalition that benefited After all, it was a long time ago when the world was or unwittingly. So most of the sideways references come, from the "variousness" of its members. Thereby, there perhaps a bit flatter and architecture was a bit less pre• unsurprisingly, from text, despite the lengthy interviews was an inconsistency among its drawn references that tentious—or at least when architecture talk seemed to be with myself and the other surviving original members, didn't (or couldn't) shoot at a narrow range of targets. I mostly about, well, architecture. David Greene, Michael Webb, and Dennis Crompton. would have thought that this notion would come through Sadler has done a nice job and was exemplary in his The book feeds backwards and forwards to other text in the book, but perhaps you can't comprehend it unless phoning and checking and all that "cub reporter" stuff merchants, who all seem to get off on categories, defini• you drew yourself. Banham knew, because he'd worked that makes (in books of this sort anyway) reading the tions, nuances and the idea of collective phenomena. his way around aeronautical engines and theater stages. footnotes as amusing as reading the main text. It parallels, Zeitgeist stuff. Colin Rowe had designed houses (probably not very well, surely, the strategy of the front cover, which suggests that The author tries hard to describe the projects them• but that's not the point). These guys could guess at some the primary value of the Archigram Group was to explode selves and—I suspect deliberately—avoids giving too of the moves, the tweaks, the little jumps that the designer architecture from within. Assuming this message, the much space to the oft-published images. So far makes almost instinctively and makes again when draw• book tries to explain to another generation how such a so good. Eventually though, one becomes suspicious that ing a conscious statement image. Not that anyone would preposterous activity came not from a coterie of revolu• several of the chosen images are there because they under• easily admit to such a thing... tionaries or intellectuals but from some blokes who met line the moral, social, cultural build-up. In other words, Nowadays, one can most easily talk about the ideas and in an egg-and-chip caff in Swiss Cottage and got wind they become narrative props rather than generators. My the pitch of the ideas to other people who draw. Lebbeus of another set of London blokes who bought Ivy League cat is out of its bag: Nice though he is and undoubtedly Woods understands. Neil Denari understands. Bill suits and smoked Lucky Strikes. on our side, Sadler is a word man and probably can MacDonald understands. understands. C. J. Lim To explain such a phenomenon, Sadler had to recon• never suss out the pitch and thrust or (sometimes) understands. Some kid in Lund, Taipei, or Dublin who struct the mood and prejudices of the time and of the place. dreamy reveries that were in our minds as we drew. draws, understands—withoutthe chit-chat, because in He had to reconstruct the architectural world of London How to capture Webb's genius, his fetishism, his clear- the corner of the half-finished Webb drawing of, say, 1991, and paint in the key figures. Rightly and inevitably, minded obsession with propositions that have kept him there's this little gadget that...? Reyner Banham and Cedric Price come across as pivotal. on the case for 40 years? How to capture the irritation with So here's a final complaint that I have to get off my chest, For some of us, conversation with them was a magical the act of drawing turned to clarity at the hand of Chalk? especially as I peruse the index. Archigram was far more element, with an aspect of "needle" that I am the first to How to evaluate Crompton, the boffin, the facilitator? interested in non-English inspiration than in just hitting or admit. Banham used his writing, as well as the occasional How to understand the depth of irony honed into creative fitting the English scene. We were heaving ourselves out off-the-cuff remark, to goad one into more, better, tougher irony that reveals Greene to be closer to more artists of the creek and heading for the sea. That was the point. activity. And Cedric was there, always weaving his way than architects? How to sense the mixture of frustration Curious, and irritating, perhaps for both Frampton and between morality and style, audacity and seriousness, and sheer attack lurking behind Herron's bonhomie and the current batch of mealy-mouthed hijackers, is the tectonic featurelessness and immense pertinence that seamless gliding of the pen, held with a cigarette to help revived interest in the work itself in so many places. It has made you (sometimes) feel that your work was indulgent dry the ink? How to understand that I still make drawings become part of architecture. It was never without archi• and sloppy. But at least for Ron Herron and myself, any that, as they jog along, carry whispered conversation tecture. Archigram was about stuff and things. Stuff and serious self-doubt lasted for half a day at most, before we with allies, alive or dead, so that the bits and pieces have things that can jump, ARCHIGRAMMER PETER COOK IS A got going on the next effort. For Warren Chalk or David the culture they need to keep going? DESIGN PRINCIPAL AT HOK [N LONDON. Greene, it seemed to last for weeks, but they always bounced back, eventually.

Bouncing. Now I didn't plan to get into that aspect of things, but it had to come out sooner or later. Try as he might, it is probably generationally, operationally, psycho• logically, impossible for Sadler—or anybody else now liv• ing except perhaps Mark Wigley in full form in one of his more gossipy lectures, or perhaps someone like art critic Dave Hickey (who I've never met, but would like to)—^to get that bounce into things. It is quite correct for Sadler to identify the Independent Group and the Smithsons as a frame of reference and, after all, a personal connection. However, this link is acquiring other overtones since both Cedric and the Smithsons are undergoing a reputational hijacking from the more po-faced English architects who, if they have their way, will have successfully airbrushed out the zanier aspects of them all. In doing so, the revisionists are sup• pressing an essential ingredient of English psychological survival and a clue to the natural lateral thinking in their projects (particularly Cedric's) and, I think, in ours. Evoking the circumstances surrounding our efforts so that they can be measured against today's relevancies, or today's value-system, or today's academic chit-chat is

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