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The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Volume 52, Number 10, June 1990

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Volume 52, Number 10, June 1990 Richard G. Stein Editor: Suzanne Stephens Richard G. Stein, the architect who his career, he served as a member of the Deputy Editor: Suzanne Beilenson introduced energy conservation as an school's Trustee Advisory Committee and Editorial Consultant: Alex Cohen essential consideration in building design, Board of Governers, as well as the president Art Director: Abigail Sturges died at age 73 on April 18. A fellow of the Copy Editor: Kate Norment of the New York Society of Architects Typesetting: Steintype, Inc. AIA and past president of the New York (1969-70 ). J essor's socially conscious Printer: The Nugent Organization Chapter (1975-76), Stein captured the designs earned him many professional Staff Photographer: Dorothy Alexander attention of the architecture world with his honors, including the Queens Chamber of studies on the enormous energy costs Commerce Award for Excellence in Design, The New York Chapter of involved in construction and building Cooper Union's Presidential Citation, and the American Institute of Architects maintenance. His 1978 book Architecture the Distinguished Service Award from the 457 Madison Avenue and Energy was hailed by architect Charles New York Society of Architects. New York , New York 10022 Hughes as the definitive treatise on the 212-838-9670 subject. William Muschenheim, FAIA, died at the Executive Committee 1989-1990 age of 87 on February 1. The reputation of Denis G. Kuhn AIA, President Stein received his undergraduate degree the early modernist architect, who worked John H. Winkler FAIA,First Vice President from New York University and his master's in New York and Long Island in the 1930s David Castro-Blanco FAIA, Vice President degree from Harvard University, where he and '40s, was revived by the East Hampton Douglas Korves AIA, Vice President studied under Walter Gropius. Later he Guild Hall show "Long Island Modern," John Ellis AIA, Secretary worked fo r Gropius and Marcel Breuer organized in 1987 by Alastair Gordon. James L. Garretson AIA, Treasurer before serving in the Army Corps of Bronson Binger AIA, Director Wendy Evans AIA, Director Engineers during World War II. Upon his Muschenheim studied architecture at MIT Harold Fredenburgh AIA, Director return, he was a principal with the before going to Vienna to attend Peter Margaret Helfand AIA, Director Manhattan firm of Kats, Waisman, Behrens' Master School of Architecture at Judith Solomon AIA, Director Blumenkranz, Stein, Weber until 1960, when the Academy of Fine Arts. He then came to Margot Woolley AIA, Director he established his own firm, the Stein New York to work with Joseph Urban. One Partnership. Projects he designed included of his early claims to fame was his inclusion Lenore M. Lucey AIA, Executive Director the Manhattan Children's Treatment Center in the "Rejected Architects" show of Regina Kelly, Executive Secretary on Ward's Island, Intermediate School 183 in modernist work that Philip Johnson Chapter Staff the Bronx, and the Coney Island Hospital. organized in 1931 to protest the stodginess Christine Magnus of the Architectural League's parallel Judith Rowe A forerunner of environmentalism, Stein exhibit. Stacy Spies embodied a philosophy of conservation and Stephen Suggs social responsibility, a stance for which Peter After Urban's death in 1933, Muschenheim © 1990 The New York Chapter of the Samton called him "the early conscience of practiced on his own, renovating public American Institute of Architects. All rights the architectural community." Through his spaces in the Hotel Astor and designing reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part roles as a teacher at the Cooper Union, a spare, minimal apartment interiors. In 1939 without written permission is strictly chairman of the Croton Planning Board, and the firm of Muschenheim and Brounn prohibited. a member for 25 years of the National AIA worked with Ely Jacques Kahn on the Marine OCULUS, published ten times a year, Delano and Aldrich/Emerson Fellowship Transportation Building at the New York September through June, is a benefit of Committee, Stein continually contributed World's Fair. Eventually Muschenheim NYC/ AIA membership. Public membership his own energy to the profession. Sam Brody moved to Ann Arbor, where he lived and is $54. A year's subscription to Oculus is $25. said of him, "The values Richard Stein worked until his death. represented are enduring ones. Whether we For more information on professional and liked it or not, everyone was influenced by Ralph G. Gulley, founder of the School of public memberships, please call the Chapter, his ideas, fo r he challenged us to think." Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic at 212-838-9670. - S .B. Institute in 1929 and later partner at the The views expressed in this publication A memorial service for Richard Stein will architecture firm ofDeskey Associates, Inc., are not necessarily those of the be held Sunday, June 3. See calendarfor died on March 18. Gulley, who obtained his Executive Committee or Staff of the details. undergraduate degree from the University NYC/AIA. of Virginia and his master's degree from Herman Jessor, who died at the age of 95 Harvard University, was 87 years old. He on April 8, was recognized worldwide as an remained as dean at the School of Special Thanks authority on urban housing. He became well Architecture at RPI for twelve years before Oculus would like to thank Margaret Helfand, known for the housing project Co-op City, moving to Manhattan. Later in his career liaison from the Oculus editorial board to the which, though much maligned in the 1960s, Gulley joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. NYC/ AJA, along with Chapter President Denis is now applauded by its inhabitants for the In the 1970s he began work as an Kuhn, Bart Voorsanger, and Harold Fred en burgh, for their encouragement, suggestions, and sense of community encouraged by the independent zoning consultant. criticism (which was, of course, welcome) during design of the complex. Among J essor's other the editorial year of September 1989 to June accomplishments were Rochdale Village in 1990. We would also like to thank both Denis Kuhn Queens, Starret City in Brooklyn, and and incoming Chapter President John Winkler for their prodigious fundraising efforts on behalf Seward Park Houses on the Lower East Side. Conection of Oculus. Helen Demchyshyn deserves our special appreciation for her help in obtaining Born in Russia, Jessor emigrated to the In the May issue's article on the NYC/AIA advertising. We are grateful to architecture United States at the age of twelve and later 1990 Design Awards Program, we misspelled historian Barry Bergdoll for being the sole person to respond to our plea for the loan of an additional graduated from the Cooper Union School of juror Peter Prangnell's name and would like computer. It has been invaluable, needless to say. Engineering in 1917. During the course of to offer him our apologies. JU E 1990 3

NEWS NOTES Politics, Plans, and People

Amanda Burden Rosen Town H ouses, N. Y International Youth Hostel, N. Y used it was not designated a city landmark In the City until 1983. Its use wasn't finally determined until American Youth Hostels, which has taken over a number of historic buildings Since not too many architects have the nationwide fo r its programs, developed a opportunity to design town houses from plan that called for a 450-bed hostel, offices scratch, it's not hard to imagine how happy for AYH 's Metropolitan New York Council, a Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel restaurant, and a community theater. were to get the job of designing two Restoration architects Robert G. Larsen speculative houses on 85th Street between Associates have been in charge of the Madison and Fifth Avenues. Yes, this is the building's conversion to spaces where males Upper East Side Historic District, but the as well as females (still respectable, perhaps houses ate located in an actual "loophole" still somewhat indigent, but probably not - the district happens to loop around the aged) can seek temporary sleeping site, which belongs to the Metropolitan quarters . . . . Oculus would like to The Chapel L ounge Museum Historic District. The two congratulate David Todd for his work as 7,000-square-foot limestone houses, each six chairman of the Landmarks Preservation be presented on June 28, are honoring stories high, have 50 feet of street frontage Commission, a position he has held for the former mayor John Lindsay for his planning and are 50 feet deep; as Gwathmey points last 12 months. In April, in his final hours as and urban design work during his eight-year out, this makes the parti more shallow and chairman, Todd and the commission administration, from 1966 to 1974. For those more vertical than those of many older designated as landmarks City and with short memories, Lindsay was houses. Building a new structure instead of Suburban York Avenue Estate, which responsible for the urban designers who renovating an existing one has also meant consists of thirteen tenement buildings on dreamed up new 1,000-seat theaters in office that he and Siegel could "work out facades York between 78th and 79th Streets, and buildings in Times Square and 21.6 FAR specific to the plan and to the vertical City and Suburban First Avenue Estate, multi-use towers along Fifth Avenue. While organization." He adds, "The designs each between 64th and 65th Streets (with 16 the former mayor is to be commended for have their own parti and at the same time buildings as landmarks). The York Avenue bringing urban design quality to New York, acknowledge the street context." The town Estate designation throws a major hurdle in it should be noted that such changes have houses - both of which have swimming front of developer Peter Kalikow, who not been free of difficulties . . . .Th e landmark pools, penthouse terraces, and elevators plans to build an overbearing 80-story luxury fountain designed by Charles Platt in 1912 (one house has a garage) - are being tower on the site. Kalikow has hired Eli for Bryant Park is being sold by the Bryant developed by Phyllis Rosen, who also Attia as his architect and is hoping the Park Restoration Corporation. The interviewed Richard Meier and Robert Board of Estimate will void the landmarking BPRC claims that the pink granite fountain, Stern for the job ... . Amanda Burden has decision. Todd also saw the LPC designate a monument to suffragette Josephine Shaw been appointed by City Council President the Upper West Side/Central Park West Lowell, is in such bad repair that the Andrew Stein to be a City Planning Historic District, which includes some corporation can't afford to keep it. But it Commissioner. Burden, one of twelve such 2,000 buildings. The Board of Estimate, does still work, and it is now available for commissioners to serve under Richard which is in the process of being phased out, purchase (call 818-4142 for more Schaffer, the new mayoral appointee for will have a busy month in August. It will be information). A few condition of the sale, chair of the department, has resigned her deciding on the Audubon Research however: the fountain must be repaired by post as vice president of planning and design Building and rezoning at 166th Street and the buyer, and it must be left in its present for the Battery Park City Authority. She says Broadway (see Oculus, May 1990, p. 13), the location. So if you want to gaze upon your she particularly enj oys the prospect of Arverne housing proposal in Queens, the property, you'll have to go to the west end "looking at the growth of the city as a whole Hunter's Point mixed-use development, of Bryant Park . . .. The Old U.S. Custom - not just Battery Park City - and playing the Sotheby's apartment tower at 72nd House in lower Manhattan will soon a role in shaping that growth, particularly and York, and the Upper East Side undergo restoration. Last restored in 1982, with regard to environment and quality of contex tual zoning proposed for 72nd, the 83-year-old Beaux Arts-style building by life in the boroughs as well as Manhattan." 79th, 86th, and 96th Streets and East End Cass Gilbert is being readied for new Burden plans to spend a lot of time in the Avenue. Almost the only thing not coming occupants - from federal government boroughs meeting with community boards up before the board will be Trump City, agencies and the Museum of the American and other groups .. .. The New York which will be subjected to City Council Indian. The restoration is being carried out International Youth Host el has finally review later, after it has been certified. Still, by Ehrenkrant z, Eckstut & Whitelaw. opened in the landmark building at 891 it sounds as if a lot of architects, developers, Amsterdam Avenue and 103rd Street and lawyers will be no further than a car-ride designed by Richard Morris Hunt. The away during that month . . . . According to Grand Central's Attradions Victorian Gothic brick structure, originally unofficial sources, a 50-story hotel is being completed in 1883 for the Association for planned to sit atop the Port Authority Bus Beyer Blinder Belle and their consortium the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Terminal. Reportedly the commission will go (Harry Weese & Associates, STY/Seelye Females, came close to being torn down in to either Fox & Fowle with developer Stevens Value & Knecht) have released their the early 1970s. Spurred on by the Silverstein Properties or Ahuja Priya master plan for the restoration and Architectural League, opposition was Architects and deveioper BPT (as in renovation of Grand Central Terminal. Along organized to keep the building from being Bechtel/Park Tower). Raj Ahuja and Vishva with the usual fixing and repairing, the demolished. The structure was placed on the Priya, incidentally, were both previously with architects have a few surprise proposals. National Register of Historic Places in 1975, John Burgee Archit ects and opened their One is to install a major stair and open up but because of wrangling over whether or office about six months ago .... The City the balcony in the eastern portion of the not it should be saved and how it should be ClubofNewYorkBardAwards, which will main concourse, where the Kodak Colorama 4 NYC/AJA OCULUS

Grand Central, proposed east stair Model of Battery Park City for the Queens Museum Panorama sign hung for 40 years. The proposed have taken a leadership role in this year's almost lost because of city and community addition, designed to be placed program: in addition to donating models, squabbles. Skyscrapers are another symmetrically opposite the stair and balcony they are sponsoring the museum's "landmark" Stern recommended saving, on the west (Vanderbilt Avenue) side of the 25th-anniversary celebration. More than citing the destruction of the Singer building room, was drawn in the original plan of 1913 fifteen other AJA firms have also contributed in the late 1960s-the tallest building ever by Reed and Stem, Warren & Wetmore but models to the exhibit, and the Queens demolished-and the continual destruction was never built. Museum would be grateful for any further occurring to midtown skyscrapers now being donations. Contact Beth Henriques at the continual destruction occurring to Beyer Blinder Belle and team have also 718-592-2405. midtown skyscrapers now being slipcovered proposed adding a series of restaurants with new curtain walls. around the balcony, and shops, cafes, and exhibits in the waiting rooms close to 42nd Landmarks Shakedown Lenore Lucey had announced that the panel Street. In order to bring these changes about, was meeting "to talk about common causes Metro-North and the Grand Central Last month, during the celebration of the -which is frequently difficult, for there are Partnership (a group of private businesses 25th anniversary of the New York City many adversarial relationships in our city." trying to upgrade the area) plan on calling Landmarks Preservation Commission, After Stern had finished, one thing was clear: in Williams, Jackson Ewing, the Baltimore compliments and accolades about its knowing and acting on what constitutes a retail-marketing consultants who made genuinely impressive achievements were common cause depends a lot on how awake Washington's Union Station such a success abundant. The numbers are there: 856 people are. Now is not the time to last year. buildings, 79 interiors, 9 parks, and 52 relax.- S.S. historic districts. The only trouble with this plan, of course, is that people live in Grand Central, and To commemorate the birthday, Barbaralee Who Put the Master homeless advocacy groups are bitterly Diamonstein-Spielvogel organized and protesting the upgrading of the station. If moderated a panel at the Urban Center that in the Master Plan? Grand Central is to be maintained as a vital was sponsored by the New York Landmarks by Kelly Shannon landmark - one that will draw various Preservation Foundation and the NYC/ AIA. audiences from the city to its architectural "Nobody here is trying to be a hero," said space - the station will have to be filled It was like having a dinner party where all Barbara Kruger, the well-known artist and with events that attract the public. Right the guests behaved, except one. But 'social observer,' summarizing her recent now, commuters have to go to Grand Central fo rtunately the guest who performed the collaborative efforts with Laurie Hawkinson for access to trains and subways, but they role of the spoiler had some solid points to and Henry Smith-Miller (of the don't have to stay there. Attracting make. (And, since the comments came after architecture firm Smith-Miller+ Hawkinson), noncommuters to the terminal would be a round of thoughtful if predictable Guy Nordenson (engineer, Ove Arup difficult given its current use as a shelter statements from the rest of the panelists, Associates), and Nicholas Quennell for the homeless. the audience was glad to be jolted a bit.) (landscape architect). In an event sponsored by the Art and Architecture Committee of Grand Central must be programmed either The panel was composed of Mitchell the NYC/ AIA, this core group of design as a shelter and a commuter station or as a Bernard, director of the Natural Resources professionals, along with other participants public attraction and a commuter station. Defense Council's Urban Law Center; including urban historians, demonstrated The latter choice, while it may seem more Richard Kahan, of the Continental that collaboration is a valuable tool for profitable, is also more expensive for now. It Development Group; Borough President understanding and improving the built appears that the best solution would be fo r Ruth Messinger; Gene Norman, former environment. Metro-North, the Metropolitan Transportation Landmarks chair and now president of the Authority, and the Grand Central Partnership Harlem International Trade Center The collaborative group presented three of to provide a substitute shelter and drug- and Corporation; and architect and author of their projects, which provided evidence that alcohol-treatment center for the station's New York 1900 and New York 1930, Robert when individuals work together they can current occupants.- S.S. A.M. Stern. NYC/ AIA Executive Director transcend the boundaries of their respective Lenore Lucey introduced the discussion. disciplines. The mutual respect among the members of the group allowed a traditionally For those familiar with the players, it is no hierarchical process to be focused on more Model Donations surprise that the outspoken curmudgeon fundamental issues in which all the turned out to be Stern. He maintained that participants had a voice from the beginning. In an effort to update the Panorama of New "a good many landmarks have been lost, and York City, a permanent exhibit at the Queens a lot more are unprotected." As one example, Although the collaborators demonstrated Museum, the institution has invited he brought up the destruction of Henry that their process is clearly viable as a architecture and development firms to Hardenbergh's New York Club (a.k.a. the vehicle for permanent markings on the donate scale models of buildings they have Wendell Wilkie Building of Freedom House), landscape, the projects have yet to reach designed in the past fifteen years. The at 20 West 40th Street. A hole in the ground their full potential. "Imperfect Utopia: A Panorama, which was commissioned by awaits new construction. Stern also pointed Park for the New World," a 160-acre site plan Robert Moses for the 1963-64 World's Fair, out the need to evaluate the less glamorous for the North Carolina Museum of Art in has not been extensively refurbished since landmarks - not just the historic places and Raleigh, is currently on hold until financing 1974. Five AIA firms , Emery Roth & Sons, the homes of the rich designed by famous for the proposal is certain. Politics interfered Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Rafael architects. He cited McCarren Park Pool with a project for Piers 62 and 63 on the Vinoly Architects, Skidmore, Owings & (Oculus, September 1989, p. 7), which was Seattle waterfront; it was dismantled not Merrill, and Swanke Hayden Connell, built in 1936 by Robert Moses and was long after it was built. JUNE 1990 5

The Plaza, 59th Street penthouses Hoffmann-LaRocheDay Care, Nutley, NJ Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY In "Un-Occupied Territory: An Economic small and sometimes quite high windows. Ecology," the collaborators' submission for Along the roof and between the corner Boroughs and Beyond the 60-acre arts park in L.A's Sepulveda pavilions he has inserted additional Basin, they did not simply comply with the (LPG-approved) glazing. Just how program or the master plan. Instead of successfully the light and the view can be Herbert Beckhard Frank Richlan & utilizing elements typical of a culture park, brought into a landmarked mansard roof Associates have designed a day-care center their project was lush with concepts tailored remains to be seen. Clearly Pomeroy (and for the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann­ to L.A.: the imagery of the supermarket, the Trump) realize that mirrors aren't enough. La Roche. The two-story, 5,000-square-foot automobile, and the "vernacular" strip mall, center, designed to look like home - with with its accompanying sea of asphalt. The clapboard siding and a gable roof- adjoins group knew their project would be disqualified, the company's manufacturing, research, and but they thought the statement was worth it. Moscow-New York and Beyond office facilities in Nutley, New Jersey. It will provide day-care accommodations for 65 Hawkinson, Smith-Miller, Kruger, Architects/Designers/Planners for Social offspring of the employees. Back in the city Nordenson, and Quennell are a convincing Responsibility/New York and the Alliance of the architects are also designing a new wing example that collaboration can be fulfilling the Building Community were able to bring for the museum building of the New York from the point of view of the collaborators. a bracing glimpse of Soviet architecture to Botanical Garden in the Bronx, which was Let's hope their efforts will come to fruition New York May 1 to May 25. One of the designed in 1902 by Robert W. Gibson in and tangibly illustrate their faith in the interesting aspects of the show, "The Socially the French classical style . . . . Kenneth process. Responsible Environment: USNUSSR, Frampton will be teaching seminars at the 1980-1990," was that an exact duplicate of newly founded Berlage Institute in the exhibition opened in mid-May at the Amsterdam. The Postgraduate School of Union of Architects in Moscow. The work of Architecture, which is associated with the What Ever Happened To ••• ? the Russian and American architects Delft University of Technology and the represented was selected by jurors from Amsterdam School of Arts, has a small staff Ivana may have dibs on the Plaza Hotel, both countries. Choosing the American chaired by Herman Hertzberger. It will others may be speculating that Donald projects were Kenneth Frampton, John occupy a portion of Aldo van Eyck's much Trump will sell it, but Lee Pomeroy is Loomis, Michael Rotondi, and Mildred lauded orphanage, which he designed in optimistic about "business as usual." He has Schmertz, while the projects from the 1960 and which Aldo and Hannie van Eyck just been putting final touches on the U.S .S.R. were chosen by AbdoulAkchmedov, are now renovating for the design school. drawings for the $25 million conversion of Nodar Mgalobishvili, Felix Novikov, and Richard Meier is also expected to make the top three floors of the Plaza into Sergo Stuyagin. appearances there, along with other penthouse suites. Since the Landmarks internationally known architects Tadao Preservation Commission has approved The exhibition, which was based on Ando, Rem Koolhaas, Oriol Bohigas, certain exterior-window modifications for black-and-white drawings and photographs Giancarlo de Carlo, and Jean Nouvel. .. . the roof, proposed by Hardy Holzman so that it could travel easily to Neocon in Perkins Geddis Eastman Architects are Pfeiffer, the architects for the hotel's Chicago in June, and then on to Atlanta, San at work designing the new Queens Civil exterior renovation, it's time for the next Francisco, and L.A. , conveyed more of the Court Building, a 190,000-square-foot step. didactic feeling of a walk-in book than of a building in Jamaica. . .. Edward Larrabee show where one feels close to the design Barnes' new Katonah Museum ofAr t, on Pomeroy, who will be renovating the Plaza process. Nevertheless, its organization and Route 22 in Katonah, will open late this fall. interiors, has designed fourteen luxury hotel installation were crisp and coherent. Russian The white stucco building with a lead-coated suites- both flats and duplexes-for the and American projects, divided primarily copper double-pitched roof is meant to have seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth into three general programmatic categories, an intimate character, and in fact it is not floors. He even designed himself out of his alternated with each other; one could much larger than a sizable country house own office on the seventeenth floor and has quickly sense the strong, stern muscularity (12,750 square feet). The two-story relocated to SoHo. of many of the projects executed under quite structure contains two galleries, a studio different circumstances from ours. (It must space, offices, and a sculpture garden. (Some For years these three floors, located within have seemed a little odd to the Russian of us will miss the true intimacy of the tiny the Plaza Hotel's giant mansard roof, have architecture community to find an American Katonah Gallery, which has been housed for been a variegated rabbit warren of high- and industrial park included in a show of years in the annex of the village library). ... low-ceilinged spaces that were rented out "socially responsible" architecture, but there As part of Princeton University's ongoing as offices. The windows were small, were also very few houses for the rich among practice of hiring up-and-coming (and sometimes almost nonexistent, but who was the U.S. entries.) sometimes already established) architects to complain? Location was all. to design new buildings, the university has Tician Papachristou was the liaison from asked Diana Agrest and Mario High-rent hotel suites, however, do have to the U.S . side, Yuri Platonov was his Gandelsonas to do a feasibility study for a take into consideration the view, especially counterpart in the U.S.S.R. , and the curators campus center. The proposed center will be when they face Central Park or Fifth Avenue. were Alessandra Latour (U.S.A.) and attached to the existing Chancellor Green Since the corner pavilions have to remain Andre Nekrasov (U.S.S.R.), along with building, which is linked to another campus relatively intact, Pomeroy decided that the Sheryl Kolasinski, John Loomis, and building, East Pine; both of these are to be uppermost windowless level (the nineteenth James Tice here in New York. The show, renovated as well. The Agrest/Gandelsonas floor) of the duplexes should have the installed using Knoll's system of steel wires link will be made of stone and brick to saunas and bathrooms. Then he designed and clips, was co-sponsored by Knoll conform in feeling to the Collegiate Gothic platforms in the cavernous living and dining International and Furniture Consultants, style of the surrounding architecture. rooms below to bring people closer to the Inc.-S.S. 6 YC/AIA OCULUS URBAN STORIES High rents in the urban fabric?

Proposed hotel, Houston St. , Der Scutt concerned that if these hotels are unsuccessful, the developers may later claim s s a hardship in complying with the M-zoning. by Suzanne Beilenson This tactic could open up a back-door As the real estate market slows throughout approach to establishing highly profitable much of New York City, the landmarked residential units, which SoHo's zoning does historic cast-iron district in SoHo has not -otherwise allow. become the unlikely target of a number of hotel developers, much to the dismay of the These issues are currently being studied by community. Currently five separate plans are the planning firm of Abeles Phillips Preiss either undergoing the approval process or & Shapiro for a community organization are rumored to be doing so. One proposal, called the SoHo Alliance. While the firm's for an 80-room hotel located on Houston findings have not yet been published, John Street between Greene and Mercer Streets Shapiro concludes that as a low-density and designed by Der Scutt for developer district, SoHo could be significantly affected Hank Sopher, has already been approved. by a relatively small number of hotels. He also adds, "During the weekdays, SoHo is far 279 Central Park West, Costas Kondylis The latest hotel scheme approved by the more industrial than most people realize. city, for a site at 137 Wooster Street and Hotels on side streets pose traffic problems The building's location, where the old designed by Gruzen Samton Steinglass, for manufacturing concerns." Walden School stood overlooking the needed only to be reviewed by the reservoir, naturally led the client to plan Landmarks Preservation Commission for the Thomas P. McConnell, manager of the initially on an all-glass tower with sweeping "appropriateness" of its design in the hotel-consulting group for the accounting views. But confronted with the recently context of the historic district. The hotel's firm of Laventhol & Horwarth, maintains that adopted RlOA contextual setback developer, Richard E. Talmadge in hotels do not increase traffic as much as requirements, as well as the proposed association with the Pritzker family, had fully retail stores do. He also contends that "it's landmark districting of the area and the expected the plan to be passed. too late to preserve SoHo a la 1973. It's now perceived strong demand for prewar-style a big shopping mall and a movie set." apartments, the developer chose to imitate Because hotels are permitted as-of-right the older, large buldings that line the park. under SoHo's manufacturing-district zoning To fill the hotels, advocates of development The accelerating compression of the CM-zone), they are a logical and economic are looking not only to tourists but to visitors recessed upper floors, in addition to choice for developers, who can bypass the associated with the art and architecture increasing costs, led to the building being difficulties and expense of the Uniform Land businesses located in and around SoHo. topped out at 24 stories, and kept the actual Use Review Process (ULURP). Without These groups alone will not generate enough floor area below that permitted by the ULURP, though, the SoHo community business to make the hotels lucrative, allowable FAR of 10.5, which reflects a bonus naturally loses its best opportunity to however. Richard Talmadge hopes to lure for inclusionary housing off-site. influence development. While community some of midtown's traditional clientele to pressure during the Landmarks his hotel as well. Indeed, McConnell asserts At street level, the building's three-story Preservation Commission review convinced that all of the So Ho hotels will need to attract limestone base succeeds in creating an the owners to modify 137 Wooster from a a small fraction of the midtown market in understated wall, even though it is broken twelve-story building with a setback to two order to survive. Meanwhile, as these strangely by a gold-pa.inted revolving door eight-story buildings, the complex remains developers fight for their niche in the hotel leading to the marble and mahogany lobby. a hotel and thus entails the same drawbacks world, the SoHo community will be fighting Across the street and into the park the in terms of land use. for the preservation of their neighborhood's perspective changes. Here the ordinary character. brick facade of the upper floors is Arthur Strickler, chairperson of SoHo's interrupted only by awkwardly framed bay Community Board 2, argues that the windows and partial rustication. Thin stone community cannot withstand the influx of New Old Apartment Tower on pediments give the building the look of a tourists and traffic that the proliferation of Central Park West new kid on the block who is trying too hard hotels would bring. He is also gravely by Alex Cohen to fit in. Its neighbor to the north may be unremarkable but looks more solid and Zoning alone is insufficient to legislate the appropriate in comparison. Construction design of specific buildings. But the Technologies, architecture of 279 Central Park West, a new The 38 apartments at 279, with their Inc. stone-and-brick condominium at West 88th hierarchical arrangement of public and Street, owes as much to strict contextual private rooms, evoke prewar apartments at controls of its street wall, setbacks, and a reduced scale. Kondylis has planned each • • INSPECTION height as to an early marketing decision to unit in relation to a well-proportioned position the building's apartments as • TESTING central foyer, but the other rooms, prewar-style formally arranged units. particularly the bedrooms, seem tight. All of • ENGINEERING Designed by Costas Kondylis for Sutton East the three- to five -bedroom apartments, some • RESEARCH Associates, 279 Central Park West has had of which are 3,700 square feet, are fairly 195 Armstrong Road satisfactory sales to upper-income buyers in neutral in their design. The kitchens, large Garden City Park, N.Y 11040 a dead residential market. This fact could be by normal New York standards, are elegant, 516-742-6444 a lesson, although the targeted marketing in with cherry-wood cabinets and dark granite helped sales considerably. tabletops and floors. JUNE 1990 7 O~S~F~ t; {!,~~~~ 0 c,,... 'tk, llf+V'- E4t S~ =- ~

Organized by James Gauer, Architect Zoneheads: Oculus committee meeting < Committee Members a predictability and uniformity by building Peter De Witt, Beyer Blinder Belle out to the street line, then having a street No More Tall Stories: Bruce Fowle, Fox & Fowle wall go up 125 or 150 feet before setting A Study of Upper East Side James Garrison, James Stewart Polshek and back. But it could be a problem if there is Partners more variation in buildings on the street. A Avenues Michael Kwartler, Michael Kwartler and uniform street wall is okay, but not necessary. Associates A Planning Study by Civitas, April 1986 Peter Samton, Gruzen Samton Steinglass Peter Samton: Where streets have a Marilyn Taylor, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, built-in character, contextual zoning makes This report compares the existing open Craig Whitaker, Architect sense. But on the Upper East Side that space and development between Third and character starts to disappear from Third to East End Avenues on the Upper East Side Background: James Gauer had attended York Avenues. with the potential development possible meetings of Community Board B's MK: In areas where the streetscape is varied under current zoning regulations. Fearful Planning Subcommittee regarding the and may result from two or three sets of that ovedevelopment will destroy the Department ofCity Planning's discussion regulations, including old-law tenements, neighborhood's street life, sense of document "Regulating Residential Towers 1916 zoning with setback buildings, 1961 community, and openness to the sky, Civitas and Plazas: Issues and Options." As a zoning with towers and plazas, and so on, proposes several revisions to the zoning practicing architect and a resident of the there is a question about what a context is. resolution. Upper East Side, Gauer wanted to further Bruce Fowle: The street-wall context of the pursue certain architectural and urban Upper West Side should not be confused In order to limit the bulk and scale of new design issues pertinent to the area that with that of the Upper East Side. The development, Civitas recommends the extends from 59th to 96th Streets andfrom 150-foot-high wall is a common denominator elimination of the residential-plaza bonus, a Third to York Avenues. He suggested, there, as it is on cross streets on the Upper zoning district line located 100 feet from the therefore, that he organize an informal East Side. But it does not necessarily apply avenue, and a reduction of the FAR from 10 project committee for Oculus. The to First, Second, and Third Avenues. to 9 on the avenues. The study also calls for roundtable discussion presented below is MK: Broadway is so variegated. Since that an elimination of the tower regulations that the result of the.first three meetings of this street is not a Parisian boulevard, R lOA helps allow buildings to pierce the sky-exposure Oculus committee in which the issues even things out. Contextual zoning, however, plane, blocking sunlight and causing strong affecting zoning and development on the lacks variation and flexibility in certain winds at street level. Finally, Civitas Upper East Side were analyzed. The DCP situations. It becomes a very gross fit. recommends that new development document was viewed primarily as a Craig Whitaker: One of the things that maintain a street-wall height between 65 and platform for debate. Civitas is doing is looking at street walls. For 85 feet before any setbacks to better example, a street wall of 117 to 125 feet is integrate with existing buildings. Some of the project participants were comfortable on Broadway because the street unable to attend all of these initial is so wide. But it doesn't work on narrow meetings and thus are represented rather streets. poorly in the following comments. Regulating Residential Towers BF: Another problem with contextual However, in the next issue of Oculus, to zoning, as shown by RlOA, is that only the and Plazas: Issues and Options appear in September, the committee plans street wall is dealt with. There is no A Discussion Document published by the to offer proposals for zoning mechanisms relationship to the neighborhood or the Department of City Planning, November and reforms. We should also add inner block. Thus the buildings cascade in 1989 that this is not a NYC/AJA committee, but stepbacks on the avenues and streets, but rather an ad hoc group put together for on the side and the rear of the building you This document studies Community District Oculus.-Ed. find just a sheer wall that casts larger 8 of the Upper East Side as a model for shadows. issues related to residential development in CW: Civitas has been trying to address the high-density areas. The design of 77 I. Contextual Zoning problems that exist in the current zoning buildings constructed between 1978 and with the relationship between avenues and 1988 is examined for the use of zoning lot [Contextual bulk regulations define controls smaller side streets. It relates to the way the mergers, residential-tower regulations, and on the street wall and requirements for lots are laid out. Earlier in the century, the residential-plaza bonuses. The analysis height and setbacks. These requirements pattern of tall buildings along the avenues reveals a wide variety of building types and apply to zoning districts such as RlOA. and lower buildings on the side streets heights in this district, and submits that the Currently a proposal from City Planning produced a manageable urban ensemble. present design standards for residential would rezone the cross streets of 72nd, 79th, Before 1961, the lots along the avenue were plazas are lacking. 86th, and 96th Streets to RlOA. It would only 100 feet deep, but after 1961 the zoning produce lower, bulkier buildings with lot was changed to 125 feet to allow the Several alternatives to the current zoning setbacks in lieu of towers.] tower and plaza prototype to be built. regulations are proposed for new James Gauer: The Department of City Density along the avenue was thus development. All seek to strengthen the Planning proposal attempts to introduce the increased, and while some space was harmony of the existing built environment principles of contextual zoning to the Upper brought back into the open plaza, the while also encouraging creative and East Side avenues. Is it possible to be delicate balance between avenues and side attractive architecture. The achievement of "contextual" where the context is so mixed streets was destroyed. What was left was a this goal is proposed through a variety of and irregular? scar tissue of exposed party walls between mechanisms, including envelope controls for Michael Kwartler: The assumption is that avenue buildings and the side buildings. bulk, the establishment of a minimum the Upper West Side's contextual zoning, With 125-foot-depth, a setback or gap is street-wall height, and tower-on-a-base-type embodied by the RlOA regulations, could be required-for light and air-and nothing buildings. applied to the Upper East Side. It gives us hangs together anymore. Also we have lost 8 NYC! AIA OCULUS

Michael Kwartler

James Gauer Peter Samton. more affordable housing in the 25-foot-wide slot - housing that is torn down for the tower/plaza development. While Madison, Park, and Lexington Avenues have been brought back to 100 feet, the avenues east need to be returned to that as well. Currently a team of us studying the situation is proposing that the pre-1961 boundaries be reinstated. Peter De Witt: Yet another problem with contextual zoning is that it no longer allows The Montana, GruzenSamtonSteinglass The Belgravia, Gruzen Samton Steinglass the construction of the typical Central Park West building, which has a slender tower above a base and relates to the street wall. answer. The occasional tower with a plaza giving it a street wall that makes sense. Don't MK: RlOA zoning is based on urban design in certain areas makes sense, because it put a tower next to a high street wall. By values. It doesn't really deal with shadows allows light and air to penetrate the area. repetition, it could work. The jigs and jogs cast on or off the site, or with the interior MK: I would rather have shorter and uglier are the worst part. plans of the buildings, for that matter. There buildings and keep the street wall. Often the PS: Still, there's something good about a are all sorts of issues that straddle urban extra height doesn't bring added tower if it preserves the lower texture design considerations, which are not taken "architecture." around it. We need to juxtapose one thing into account in contextual zoning. An urban with the other. What is good for one site designer working with a building would shouldn't proceed up and down the street. weigh all the considerations, including 11. The Street Wall If a large, bulky building is in place, other apartment plans. These regulations seem to sites should accommodate that situation, say, "Just arrange the apartments to suit the MK: The character of the streets is the and tall and thin or low buildings should be (contextual) form of the building." critical issue. We need more flexibility in introduced in order to allow sunlight to come Gauer: On the Upper East Side we have the determining the nature of the street wall. In through. Maybe you could treat one side of opportunity to create a context. Since we're some places, we should align one building the street separately from the other and not trying to devise regulations for streets and its street wall with the building next to encourage that difference. It would be that already have an established street wall, it, and in others we should just widen the responsive zoning-like having jazz instead we should give the city planners credit for streets to get more light onto the pavement. of classical music. introducing one, but then we should come But we need a choice, and we need Garrison: My proposed strategy is to accept up with something applicable to this area. regulations that take adjoining points into the polyglot context - the pipe-organ PDW: For example, one new apartment consideration. The street-wall regulations rhythm, where some vertical pieces are of building on the Upper East Side has a offer a way of tying the context back unequal height. baselike treatment indicated by the masonry together again. Any of this could be written · that goes up five or six stories. But it's not into legislation as-of-right. right for this context. It could have worked James Garrison: But one thing that stands Ill. Developing an Appropriate if it were two or three stories high and thus in the way is the height of the tenements. Tower Type were kept at a pedestrian scale. Right now there are three datums - at the MK: City Planning seems to be searching six story-level, then twelve stories, and Gauer: What about the appropriate type of for the magic height for the tower and the finally forty stories. It sounds crazy, but tower on the Upper East Side? What base. If you look at the streets block by block maybe we should get rid of one. architectural types would seem to be most you will see it doesn't work that way. Some PS: If you get rid of the six-story datum, you suitable here? streets have tenements, some have towers get rid of the tenements and you get into MK: Ironically, the Montana (at Broadway sitting on two-to-three-story bases, others the issue of moving people out. All the and 88th, designed by Gruzen Samton have plazas. avenues are sites for potential towers. In the Steinglass) would be outlawed according to I would say that some streets need to be best of all possible worlds, you would tell current contextual zoning, which no longer regulated according to pre-1961 zoning-if the developers to just stop here. But this is allows towers on a base but mandates street that configuration is already in place on the not realistic. What you might do is limit walls and setbacks. Yet it is one of the best block - and some should be regulated types. Second Avenue would be composed examples of its kind. according to post-1961 zoning. You could solidly of towers, say, creating a wall of 40 PS: It goes back to the El Dorado in its type work backward, according to the regulations stories. One of the avenues could be done - two towers on a large base. Forty percent by which the particular block was built. That one way, another avenue another way, so that of the building's bulk is in the base, not the might be a way to tune it. Just study the you don't get a continuous shadow on the towers. governing regulations already in place. This area. Occasionally you could have a tall MK: But it helps that the Montana sets back would be a different kind of contextualism. tower, if it relates to the whole in an obvious and has the towers. PS: But if you had a lot of towers with plazas way. PS: I live in the shadow of the Montana, and together, it would look ridiculous. Pre-1961 Garrison: It sounds as if it could become when the sun sets around and behind the zoning didn't work and post-1961 zoning very site-specific. two 60-foot square towers, the sunlight and didn't work. The replication of a similar type MK: But you could look at the as-of-right shadows appear and reappear. You are not is part of the problem, unless the character regulations for that context and say that cast in shadow the whole time. This is of the street is already established. I realize these are the parameters. On the Upper East because of the small footprint of the towers we don't want to encourage the hodgepodge Side, there is one of everything on the themselves, and it is one of the saving graces that already exists. So there is no easy avenues. This randomness can be helped by of the thin, sliverlike tower. JUNE 1990 9

James Garrison

It is on a corner site and encroaches 30 or 40 feet into the side-street 8A district, so the modulation keeps this from looking like a big box. From the zoning lot merger we picked up some extra square footage, but only enough for two stories. Incidentally, this kind of modulation - not mandated, it should be said - creates an architectural quality that goes beyond the zoning regulations. Having Landmarks 222 Riverside Drive, Fox & Fowle involved in making decisions with aesthetic impact proved beneficial. Perhaps this sort of thing combined with mandated zoning MK: It's more democratic: you have long were too complicated. We could run parts of could yield higher architectural quality. shadows that hit a lot of buildings, but not them through the computer again, perhaps. MK: Often one major difference between all day long. But I have misgivings anyway about this sort the newer and the older buildings is in the Garrison: The worst types are the short, of discretionary zoning. It makes the City layout. In the older buildings, there were wide buildings. They are so bulky. We have Planning Commission an architectural multiple cores and no long corridors, and all to ask which is a better building type, the review board. the public living spaces were on the outside overbulked perimeter block or the isolated, However, we didn't legislate a type of of the building. The new building interiors skinny tower. building. We tried for performance as often have deep plans, long corridors, and PS: We designed the Rio (at 65th and opposed to the as-of-right, prescriptive living rooms with low ceilings, some 33 feet Second) with a tl;lin, sliverlike tower - tower. Now what we need is something in deep and 12 feet wide. The setbacks, cores, under 4,000 square feet per floor. The between. and elevators are the same, but the deep advantage was that it was a counterpoint to Garrison: There are three types of buildings base for the tower can mean very deep and the fat 26-story-high pre-1961 building in we see in New York that are no longer allowed dark apartments. the area. It allows light and air to penetrate by current zoning, nor are they allowed in the blocks in a different way. When you have the proposed city planning document. Those one type next to another, it creates a bit of include the point tower with a modified base; IV. The Zoning Lot Merger a hodgepodge. But it is better than having the Montana-type base-and-double-tower all the same thing. hybrid; and the articulated-street-wall MK: I would argue against allowing zoning MK: I disagree on urban design grounds. Belgravia type. Yet, in my mind, tall thin lot mergers in the Upper East Side The pre-1961 bulky block at least came out towers and bases could work if you could assemblages. Also, the current RlOA zoning to the street line. The problem is that the integrate the base with the tower. The allows about a 50 percent increase, which is bigger they get, the worse they get existing tower regulations with side-street too high, especially when you are allowed to architecturally. setbacks prevent designing a base that transfer only 20 percent of the square PS: At the Belgravia (at 79th between Park negotiates between the tower and the footage from landmarks. and Lexington) we used the Housing Quality low-rise building. The point-tower types can regulations to get extra square footage. We reinforce the character of the block. They Already the subways are overcrowded and designed it for a Japanese developer, and we become punctuation on the streetscape and the sewage-treatment limits have been could have gone straight for the tower and are more useful than the street wall created exceeded. The Upper East Side needs to be the plaza, as-of-right. Since the building sits by RlOA. downzoned, and one way to do it is to limit on the south side of the street, we pushed PDW: I don't mind the open space around the zoning lot mergers. Right now you end the developer for the Housing Quality vertical towers, such as Davis Brody's up building way over the floor-area ratio, provisions so that we wouldn't end up with Ruppert Towers (91st and Third). If the site because a lot of buildings that were built the plaza on the north side of the building. is big enough, you can pull it off. before FAR became part of zoning were There were many benefits with the Housing MK: But you should not be able to do it already overbuilt. The zoning lot merger Quality provisions, including bigger as-of-right. The large-size site should be doesn't take this existing condition into apartments. But the developer didn't get the negotiated with the city. account. The result is that the area encis up 28-to-31-story tower with great views he BF: With the luxury apartment tower we being built to a greater density than when could have had as-of-right. So we did designed at 94th and Riverside, we had to you started out. something that was contextually the right fo llow a number of guidelines from the city, CW: Civitas is suggesting downzoning on thing, but in the end the client would have sin~e at the time it was a proposed landmark the Upper East Side. I'm not sure I see a liked to have had the tall tower with the district (later designated). A 150-foot-high problem with zoning lot mergers in some really marketable apartments. street wall was mandated and we had to step districts. Ifwe don't allow zoning lot mergers, MK: Zoning and urban design initiatives give the tower back. We stepped back every other we're encouraging carnage. Developers us a chance to develop a tower type out in floor to give it a rhythm appropriate to an would buy the additional properties and the marketplace. But often we can't invent overall mass. The developer would have demolish the low-rise buildings. a type, for they evolve over time. When I preferred a tower, of course. Even though MK: I don't think that would occur so easily worked on the Housing Quality guidelines, the terraces created were valuable, it is in residential neighborhoods. It depends on we tried to bring a level of quality back to easier and more lucrative to just repeat the the developers and the properties being New York's housing. It was banal, but a floors. Architecturally we modulated the assembled. Developers often try to assemble high-quality kind of banal architecture. Now, facade, articulating it with the French­ first anyway. But often it is really hard to years later, I'm not convinced you can balcony-type windows and recessed and clear a block, especially if the buildings are legislate this. Housing Quality regulations bowed windows. co-ops. I'm not convinced there would be 10 NYC/AIA OCULUS

NYC/AIA to Trump City: Forget It

Bruce Fowle

Peter De Witt Craig Whitaker more demolition. Also, I'm not against zoning The Penn Yards (Sixtieth Street Yards) Task lot mergers; there just needs to be a cap. VII. Architecture Force of the NYC/AIA has come out with a Without such a limit, you get a very commendable report castigating Trump City disproportionate building. Gauer: A lot of zoning tries hard to prevent in no uncertain terms. It points out the PS: Over a long period of time, though, the horrible buildings and ends up tying following: rent-stabilized and rent-controlled architects' hands. Couldn't architecture be apartments would go, and then you would improved if regulations about mass and •The project is 15,159,573 square feet, twice lose a lot of lower buildings. modeling were introduced into the zoning the density approved for the site in 1982. CW: I think the notion of a street wall and text? Look at the older buildings on West a height under which you have to keep the End Avenue, which are essentially boxes. •The proposed six-block-long regional bulk of the building would be a good way of What saves them is the detailing. How do shopping mall and parking garage would handling this. you get architecture into new buildings? create a 1,500-foot wall along the MK: Maybe there would be incentives and BF: How do we encourage innovation north-south boulevard, 60 to 90 feet above disincentives in all of this. I would rather and prevent bad architecture? the residential street, and 120 feet above the have a limit to the zoning lot merger: you waterfront park, blocking views and access MK: Sophisticated zoning can make are still allowing an area to be built out over to the water. architects think - about shadows and its capacity. context - and generally tune them into the • The housing forms a series of identical location. Also it gives them ammunition with semi-continuous slabs with a narrow range the developer. of apartment types, far removed from the V. Height Limits PS: That's the sort of ammunition that exists street and parks. at Battery Park City. Gauer: What about the issue of height BF: But lots of things conspire against limits? •The 20,000 people who would occupy the architecture. Because of Local Law 10, you PS: You really don't need a height limit. 3.7-million-square-foot office towers would can't project cornices out beyond a certain MK: Not if you control the zoning lot merger. be a half mile from the nearest subway length and at the same time you can't do too It's a dumb kind of regulation-even in San station. much with windows, because of the cost of Francisco. If you have low, bulky buildings, the brickwork. So we are being driven to a you are going to have shadowy backyards all •The proposed "World's Tallest Building" is flat wall. The only thing you can do is carve day long. unrelated to the main centers of Trump City pieces away from a slick facade. and totally dominates the open spaces. CW: What about mandating projections inward, and making recesses in the facade? •None of the three goals established by City VI. Plazas MK: In some situations you wouldn't want Planning for the area - street-grid to do that. But that's in the building code, extension, access to the waterfront, and view not in the zoning. However, it's an interesting PDW: The least successful plaza is the kind corridors - is met by this plan. where the butchered end of a tenement is idea. right next door. BF: Also, balcony regulations drive you • The bulk of the parkland and open space Garrison: Where the six-story datum still crazy. If more than 50 percent of the balcony at the southern end of the site is removed exists on the East Side, there are going to is enclosed, it counts as floor area. from residential populations, and the be ragged edges where there are open MK: Yet greenhouses, which accommodate waterfront park is poorly connected to spaces. And a lot of the courtyard only plant life, are allowed. Riverside Park to the north, difficult to get regulations are the wrong proportion. PS: We could say that enclosed balconies to from the east, and not integrated with the could be viewed positively. MK: A lot of them make no sense because rest of the site. they have more to do with the zoning lot BF: They provide more shadows, merger. articulation, and three-dimensionality. • The West Side Highway, if it stays in its PS: What abol,lt creating a plaza land bank? CW: There is a possibility that we could go present form, precludes the development of The developers could pay for creating a park to City Planning with a beast - an a true waterfront park. within a certain radius of the building - apartment-building type - that we could depositing more on one site, and taking away describe by saying what it is and what it is Other points were discussed in the report, from another. Then the park would be large not, and leave a certain amount to the but the thrust is clear. The task force was enough to make sense - like the one up at marketplace. composed of Paul Willen (chairman), Ruppert Towers. BF: Some sort of guidelines could be drawn Bronson Binger, Samuel Brody, John Ellis, MK: That's a great idea. up in many areas to pinpoint the strong Michael Kazan, Alan Melting, Jim Rossant, CW: But there aren't that many soft sites, architectural features that give a David Spiker, Rafael Vinoly, and Joseph except for those by the river. neighborhood its character and what should Wasserman. PS: We're not talking about a whole block; be retained. On Riverside Drive, the just take the space between two streets and two-to-tJtree -::_story limestQn~ base adds a lot. A report went to City Planning Chairman­ go back 150 feet from an avenue, and you PS: Now that commercial and residential Elect Richard Schaffer at the end of April. have a park. markets are overbuilt, this is the time to There is no mention in the report whether CW: You are hopping over other developers' decide about legislating a lower bulk. Now one was sent to Donald Trump or the planner boundaries . . . is the time to do it right and to cre~te an for the project, Alex Cooper. In fact, there PS: We would form a park company. A environment that helps the community to is no mention of Alex Cooper's name developer could go from 10 FAR to 12, but have a better quality of life. If we could anywhere in the report. Shouldn't credit be instead of building a plaza he would deposit create the character for a neighborhood, given where credit is due? money into a land bank, and it would go developers and other individuals would have toward creating a park. a choice of different buildings. JUNE 1990 11

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Allwork Scholarship John S. Hagmann Architects in Development Fereshteh Bekhrad Architects in Education Carl Hauser Lenore Lucey Architecture Dialogue Lawrence Marek Edward Mills Architecture for Education Ernest Harris Art and Architecture Douglas Korves Robert Goldberg established an ongoing series of informal · Associates discussion with advice on how firms should Francois DeMenil discussions with the SCA and the Board of structure themselves to design interiors. Brunner Grant Education. • The newly formed Marketing and Public Michael Doyle • The Art and Architecture Committee Relations Committee organized two highly Building Codes continued its focus on the collaboration successful programs. A panel discussion Robert J. Marino between artists and architects with a introducing new editors of many of the Committee on Fellows program on the plaza at the World Financial industry's foremost publications was Bruce Fowle Center, a hands-on workshop, and a panel followed by a full-day workshop on how to Committee on Nominations discussion featuring three collaborative create a marketing plan. Jerry Maltz projects. • The Presidential Decade was expanded Computer Applications •The Building Codes Committee held an this year to include all living past presidents Helen Demchyshyn evening with Charles M. Smith, Jr. of the Chapter, and will now be called the commissioner of the New York City Presidents Advisory Committee to reflect Continuing Education William Stein Department of Buildings, to discuss this change. The committee plans to developments in his department. The concentrate its efforts on urban-design Corporate Architects committee also held a series of evenings on issues in the city. Albert Pfeiffer Local Law 58 with the participation of the • The Professional Practice Committee Design Awards Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association and provided chapter members with a valuable Theo. David the Mayor's Office for the Handicapped. service by presenting informative programs Exhibitions •The Computer Applications Committee on topics including liability insurance and Wendy Evans has organized a national competition to marketing strategies. L. Bradford Perkins design ''A Choragic Monument to Twentieth • A panel discussion on the development of Finance Century Architecture." the Harlem International Trade Center was Ralph Steinglass • The Design Awards Committee once again presented by the Public Architects Graphics and Architecture organized a progra:p in which three separate Committee. The committee also offered Leslie Blum juries met on the same day to review tours of three new subway stations and the Haskell Awards submissions for Distinguished Architecture, new Central Park Zoo. Charles Hoyt Architectural Projects, and Interiors. The • Members of the Public Sector Contracts Health Facilites award-winning projects will be on exhibit at Committee continued their efforts to gain Barbara Nadel the National Academy of Design. A special more equitable city consultant contracts. Historic Buildings order form for the catalogue, New York Together with the Architecture for Jean C. Parker Architecture Volume 3, is included with this Education Committee, they met with Housing issue. representatives of the School Construction Elizabeth Thomson • The Exhibits Committee presented a show Authority to make recommendations on Gerard F. Vasisko on the work of Hendrik Petrus Berlage, their proposed contract for architectural Interiors which will be on view through June 15. See services. Jonathan P. Butler the calendar for further information. •The Scholarship Committee continued in Legislative Affairs • The newly revived Health Facilities its efforts to administer current Chapter Randolph R. Croxton Committee held a number of seminars and programs and organize a procedure to award Marketing and Public Relations tours, including visits to recently funds currently being held in the Joan Capelin constructed facilities at Sloan-Kettering and Scholarship and Foundation Accounts. This Minority Resources Columbia Presbyterian and a bus tour to year the Chapter awarded $32, 700 in grants Augusto Tiongson laboratories in Princeton and Philadelphia. through the Brunner, Allwork, and Haskell • The Historic Buildings Committee programs. Presidents Advisory Council continued to represent the Chapter's • The Visitors Committee continued Peter Samton position on issues before the Landmarks welcoming and setting up meetings for Professional Affiliates Preservation Commission. The committee foreign visitors, including architects from Susan Appel also co-sponsored a program with the New Great Britain, the Netherlands, the U.S.S.R., Professional Practice York Landmarks Preservation Foundation and Japan. Samuel Haffey William R. Prevatel entitled "Toward a Civilized City," which • The Zoning Committee worked diligently focused on the growing detente among the on the preparation of a position paper that Public Architects architecture, development, and preservation was issued by the Chapter on New York City Elizabeth Rimalover communities. After the overwhelming zoning and the need for reform. Public Sector Contracts success of the first program, the Chapter, • A task force was appointed by President Michael Ressner again with the New York Landmarks Kuhn to study Upper West Side Religious Architecture Preservation Foundation, offered a second development. The Penn Yards Task Force William E. Gati panel discussion, "Toward a Civilized City: presented testimony on the Brodsky site and Scholarship Common Causes," which looked toward the is preparing a position paper on the proposal Carl R. Meinhardt future of the city. for the entire site of the former railroad Visitors •An exhibition and panel discussion on yards. Peter Heerens affordable housing in New York City was the Women's Caucus main focus of this year's Housing Committee. Jacqueline Lynfield In addition, the committee hosted an Zoning informative panel discussion on government Michael Parley benefit programs. • The Interiors Committee offered a panel 14 NYCIAIA OC ULUS

THE CALENDAR URBAN CENTER BOOKS' TOP 10 6. Thom Mayne Sixth Street House, George Wagner (Harvard GSD, paper, JUNE 1990 1. Architectural Record: Record $20) Houses, editors of Architectural 7. El Croquis #36: Santiago Calatrava Not to Miss: Record (McGraw-Hill Inc., paper, $7) (Croquis, paper, $25) 2. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, 8. What Is Deconstruction? Christopher Annual Meeting at the editors of Process (Process Architecture Norris and Andrew Benjamin (Academy Public Theater, June 25 Publishing, paper, $28) Editions/St. Martin's Press, paper, $12.95) 3. El Croquis #41: Peter Eisenman 9. Reconstruction Deconstruction, (Croquis, paper, $25) Architectural Design Profile (Academy 4. In Praise of Shadows, Jun'ichiro Editions/St. Martin's Press, paper, $19.95) Tanizaki (Leetes Island, paper, $4.95) 10. Providing Accessibility and Usability 5. Skyscraper - The Making of a for Physically Handicapped People Building, Karl Sabbagh (Viking, cloth, (American National Standards Institute, $22.95) paper, $14)

Send Oculus calendar information to New York PANEL Chapter/AJA, 457 Madison Avenue, New York, FRIDAY 1 Neighborhood Recycling: Is It Working? NY 10022. Co-sponsored by the Municipal Art Society EXHIBITIONS Fellows and the Municipal Art Society. 6:30 pm. Oculus welcomes i nformationfor the calendar Maria Nordman: Japanese Tea House. The The Urban Center. 935-3960. pertaining to public events about architecture artist will assemble the structure over a two-day and the other design professions. Information period. Sponsored by the Public Art Fund and is due in writing by the .first of the m onth for the Dia Art Foundation. Doris Freedman Plaza, SUNDAY 10 the following issue. Fifth Ave. and 60th St. Closes June 15. TOUR Because of the time lag between w hen the NordForm90. Features the best of design, crafts, Flushing and Bayside: Communities in information is recei ved and printed, final and architecture from the five Nordic countries. Transition. With Jack Eichenbaum. Sponsored details of events are likely to change. We Sponsored by and held in the Swedish city of by the Municipal Art Society. 1:00 pm. 935-3960. recommend that you check events with Malmo. For information, write to NordForm90 sponsoring institutions before attending. Secretariat, P.O. Box 2500, S-200 12 Malmo, Sweden. Closes September 2. TUESDAY 12

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS LECTURE NYC/AIA PANEL Felice Michetti, Commissioner, Department The Architect and the City Politic: The City of Housing Preservation and Development. Appropriation of a City. Exhibition of student Builds in Difficult Times. Moderated by Sponsored by the City Club of New York . Noon. Sally Goodgold. With Kenneth Knuckles, work on the adaptive reuse of the central civic CUNY Graduate Center, 33 W 42nd St. 921-9870. building in Cordoba, Argentina. National Institute Peter Magnani, Rudolph ~inaldi, and Carl for Architectural Education, 30 W 22nd St. Weisbrod. Sponsored by the NYC/AIA 924-7000. Closes June 8. Presidents Advisory Committee. 6:00 pm. SUNDAY3 The Urban Center. 838-9670. Nicolino Calyo: Nineteenth-Century Views of New York. New-York Historical Society, 170 MEMORIAL SERVICE LECTURE Central Park West. 873-4300. Closes June 10. Richard Stein FAIA. 12:30 pm. U.N. Chapel, 770 Creating an Operating Budget. With Liz U.N. Plaza, 44th St. and First Ave. Block. Sponsored by the Society of Architectural Picturing Brooklyn: Photos from the Parks Administrators. 6:00 pm. Glen-Gery Brickwork Archive, 1930s-1960s. Boathouse Visitor TOUR Design Center, Amster Yard, 21l E. 49th St. Center, Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 718 -788-0055. Behind the Scenes at the Brooklyn Academy Contact Cheri Van Over, 686-9677. Closes June 10. of Music. With Norman MacArthur. Sponsored by the Prospect Park Environmental Center. 1:00 Hendrik Petrus Berlage: The Work of the pm. 718-788-8549. WEDNESDAY 13 Early Dutch Modernist. NYC/AIA Gallery, the Urban Center. 838-9670. Closes June 15. PANEL TUESDAY 5 Can We Manage Our Waste? Sponsored by the Bernd and Hilla Becher: Photographs of Muncipal Art Society. 6:30 pm. The Urban Center. Industrial Architecture. Dia Art Foundation, EXHIBITION 935-3960. 548 W 22nd St. Closes June 17. Architecture as Art. Eight major New York firms' work, from Beyer Blinder Belle to Annual Student Exhibition. Cooper Union, 7 Skidmore, Owings & Me rrill. Michael Ingbar THURSDAY 14 E. 7th St. 353-4200. Closes June 21. Gallery, 578 Broadway. 334-llOO. Closes June 30. PANEL Theater on Paper. The Drawing Center, 35 How Are We Doing? Moderated by Elliot Wooster St. 219-2166. Closes July 21. WEDNESDAY6 Willensky. With Laurie Beckelman, Kent Barwick, David F.M. Todd, Gene A. Norman, Selling the World of Tomorrow: New York's DISCUSSION and Beverly Moss Spatt. Co-sponsored by the 1939 World's Fair. Museum of the City of New Robert J. Dryfoos, City Councilman, Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts York, Fifth Ave . at 103rd St. 534-1672. Closes Chairman of the Subcommittee on Planning, and the Municipal Art Society. 6:00 pm. The Urban August 12. Zoning, and Landmarks. Co-sponsored by Center. 935-3960. Landmark West! and Westpride. 8:00 am. Ginger Manhattan Contrasts: The Changing Image Man Restaurant, 51 W 64th St. 496-8l1Q. LECTURE of the City. New-York Historical Society, 170 Victorian Moderne II: The 1880s. With Barry Central Park West. 873-4300. Closes August 15. Lewis. Sponsored by the 92nd Street Y. 6:30 pm. THURSDAY 7 Park East Synagogue, 164 E. 68th St. 996-1100. New York Architecture: 1990 NYC/AIA Design Awards. The National Academy of EXHIBITION Design, 1083 Fifth Ave. 369-4880. Closes Garbage Out Front: A New Era of Public FRIDAY 15 September 2. Design. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. The Urban Center. 935-3960. Closes September LECTURE Design 1925-1945: Selections from the ll. Claire Shulman, Borough President of Collection. A new installation of the design and Queens. Sponsored by the City Club of New York. architecture collection. Metropolitan Museum of LECTURE Noon. CUNY Graduate Center, 33 W 42nd St. Art, 82nd St. and Fifth Ave . 879-5500. Open Victorian Moderne I: The 1870s. With Barry 921-9870. indefinitely. Lewis. Sponsored by the 92nd Street Y. 6:30 pm. Park East Synagogue, 164 E. 68th St. 996-llOO. TUESDAY 19 Abeles Phillips Preiss & Shapiro, Inc. FRIDAY 8 NYC/AIA SEMINARS Unpaid Bills and Liability Claims. Sponsored Planning and Development Conaultenta LECTURE by the NYC/ AIA Professional Practice Tom L. Freudenheim, Assistant Secretary for 434 Sixth Ave., New York NY 10011 Committee. 6:00 pm. The Urban Center. Museums, Smithsonian Institution. 838-9670. Sponsored by the City Club of New York. Noon. 212•475•3030 CUNY Graduate Center, 33 W 42nd St. 921-9870. Zoning WEDNESDAY 20 Land Use EXHIBITION Real Estate Feasibility The Doghouse. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 2 E. Economic Development PANEL Housing 91st St. 860-6868. Closes October 14. It's 10 O'Clock. Do You Know Where Your Market Studies Garbage Is? Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. 6:30 pm. The Urban Center. 935-3960. JUNE 1990 15

RIZZOLI BOOKSTORES' TOP 10 6. Deconstruction Omnibus, edited by Andreas Papadakis (Rizzoli, paper, $45) 1. Abstract, edited by Robert Mccarter 7. Follies and Pleasure Pavilions, (Journal of the Columbia School of George Mott and Sally S. Aall (Abrams, Architecture, paper, $19.50) cloth, $29.95) 2. New York Architecture 1970-1990, 8. From Matt Black to Memphis, edited by Heinrich Klotz with Luminita Bluepri nt magazine anthology edited by Sabau (Rizzoli, cloth, $75) Deyan Sudjic (Princeton Architectural 3. The New Urban Landscape, edited by Press, paper, $34.95) Richard Martin (Rizzoli, paper, $29.95) 9. Skyscraper - The Making of a 4. Reconstruction Deconstruction, Building, Karl Sabbagh (Viking, cloth, Architectural Design Profile (Academy $22.95) Editions/St. Martin's Press, paper, $19.95) 10. SITE, James Wines (Rizzoli, paper, $35) 5. The Architecture of Frank Gehry, Henry Cobb, reissue (Rizzoli, cloth, $35)

Big Design: Built Structures for a New Era Architecture" national design competition. THURSDAY21 of Public Works. Co-sponsored by the This competition program calls for the Architectural League and the Municipal Art design of a monument that commemorates LECTURE Society. 7:00 pm. The Urban Center. 935-3960. the architectural productions of this Making a Place for the Elderly in New York. century. Entries must be computer drawings With Jacob Reingold, executive vice president PRESENTATION or computer-embellished hand drawings. of the Hebrew Home for the Aged, and Prema Albert S. Bard Awards for Excellence in Mathai-Davis, New Yo rk City's Commissioner or. Architecture and Urban Design. Sponsored by JUNE 30 the Aging. Sponsored by the City Club of New the City Club ofNewYork. 6:00 pm. Central Park Deadline for entries for the National Trust for York. Noon. CUNY Graduate Center, 33 W 42nd Zoo. 355-0356. Historic Preservation's 1990 Great American St. 921-9870. Awards, a program honoring restoration of old and historic houses. For .details and nomination JULY forms, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope FRIDAY 22 to Home Renovation Awards, National Trust for MONDAY 16 Historic Preservation, 1785 Massachusetts Ave. FORUM N.W, Washington, D.C. 20036. Solid Waste Facilities: Neighborhood Risks EXHIBITION and Rewards. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Fumihiko Maki: Recent Works. Glen-Gery JULY 1 Society. 8:30 am. The Urban Center. 935-3960. Brickwork Design Center, Amster Yard , 211 E. Entry deadline for the Western Red Cedar 49th St. 319-5577. Closes August 10. Lumber Association design awards, a program to acknowledge design accomplishments in the use SATURDAY23 of the company's products. For more information, DEADLINES call the Association at 503-224-3930. TOUR Historic TriBeCa. Led by Andrew S. Dolkart. JUNE 1 JULY2 Sponsored by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. 10:00 Nominations due for the Sidney L. Strauss Award, Submission deadline for proposals for the am. 860-8671. which is given to an architect or other individual NYC/AIAArnold W. Brunner Grant, awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement for the for advanced studies in any area of EVENT benefit of the architectural profession within the architectural investigation. For more Celebrate the Panorama Day. 1:00-5:00 pm. previous five years. Send submissions to Sidney information, contact the Chapter at Queens Museum, New York City Building, L. Strauss Award, New York Society of Architects, 838-9670. Flushing Meadow-Corona Park. 718-592-2405. 275 Seventh Ave., New York , N.Y. 10001. 675-6646. JUNE4 SUNDAY24 Nominations due for AIA Citation for l'M~,MfZ. . ~,6UT Excellence in Urban Design 1991, Yeut l~C.6 W~'T COJ~ you WtteN yai u~ ~ TOURS recognizing distinguished achievements that have demonstrated the expanding role ~"°!fll'ITf>('f;aJrW C!'\-re Hastings-on-Hudson: An Artistic, Historic ,At..o fW,a" 1£6'1U..Y INAf'- Suburb. With Justin Ferate. Sponsored by the of the architect in urban design, city Municipal Art Society. 10:00 am. 935-3960. planning, and community development. Call ~~~~~~Ztr for entries available at the Chapter. Send The West Village: Where Greenwich Village submissions to AIA Headquarters, 1735 New Began. Sponsored by the Museum of the City of York Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. New York. 1:00 pm. 534-1672. JUNE 15 Entries due for Commercial Renovation's MONDAY25 eleventh annual renovation awards competition honoring outstanding projects in the DISCUSSION rehabilitation/restoration, adaptive reuse, and Rebuilt Nature: Landfills into Parks. historic preservation categories. $35 entry fee. Co-sponsored by the Parks Council and the Write to Dale Burrier, Design Awards Municipal Art Society. 6:30 pm. The Urban Center. Competition, 20 E. Jackson Blvd., Suite 700, Chicago, Ill. 60604. ANNUAL MEETING NYC/AIA 123rd Annual Meeting. 6:00 pm. Deadline for entries in Project Atlas, an The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. $10. international competition to interpret the abandoned Atlas Missile bases. Sponsored by Copying Documents Isn't Just Illegal, Storefront for Art & Architecture. $10 entry fee. TUESDAY26 Write to Storefront, 97 Kenmare St., New York, N.Y. 10012. NYC/AIA PANEL Choosing Computer Systems for Your Office. Registration deadline for "Bridging the Gaps: It's Dumb. Sponsored by the NYC/AIA Computer Pedestrian Connections in the City," a Applications Committee. The Urban Center. competition co-sponsored by the Columbia You can get into a lot of trouble by copying Call the Chapter for time. 838-9670. GSAPP and the Building Arts Forum/New York. $18 entry fee. Write to Bridging the Gaps, blank AIA Documents. For starters, it is Columbia University, GSAPP, 400 Avery Hall, New illegal to reproduce copyrighted material. WEDNESDAY 27 York , N.Y. 10027, or contact Anthony Webster at On top of that, the language in an old 854-3414. document can be out of date and not reflect DISCUSSION JUNE 25 current case law and practice within the Still Here ... Rethinking the Design of Entries due for the Masonry Institute's third complex construction industry. And then Garbage. Co -sponsored by the American annual excellence awards program for Class I Institute of Graphic Arts, the Industrial institutional building and Class II commercial, there's the potential increase in your Designer's Society of America, the Package industrial, or residential building. Write to liability as a result of errors or omissions, Design Council, and the Municipal Art Society. Building Awards Committee, Masonry Institute, which can result in your paying big dollars 7:00 pm. The Urban Center. 935-3960. 445 Northern Blvd., Great Neck, N.Y. 11021. to settle a dispute. It's just not worth it; JUNE 29 in fact, it's dumb. THURSDAY 28 Submission deadline for Scalamandre's 1990 Trimming Design Competition. For further To order your AIA documents, contact: DISCUSSION information, contact Tami Bitter at 718-361-8311. NYC/AIA New Materials, New Technologies, 457 Madison Avenue, New Yo rk, NY 10022 Inventions Using Waste. Sponsored by the Entry deadline for NYC/AIA "Choragic 212-759-5485 Municipal Art Society. 4:00 pm. The Urban Center. Monument to Twentieth Century