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On Current New York Architecture OCULUS on current new york architecture The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Volume 43, Number 6, March 1982 The proposed Special Midtown District page2 Oculus l Midtown Update: Chapter Names and News OCULUS Recommendations Adopted Volume 43, Number 6, March 1982 by George Lewis Oculus Following the Planning Commission's Editor: C. Ray Smith hearing on the Special Midtown Chapter Party at Plaza Managing Editor: Marian Page District February 3, at which the Art Director: Abigail Sturges Chapter presented testimony (see To Honor Giurgola & Hotel Typesetting: Susan Schechter page 10), the Commission responded The New York Chapter of positively to our recommendations. For the first time in many years the the American Institute of Architects Language in the legislation was Chapter will hold a dress ball, in the The Urban Center, 457 Madison A venue, changed to permit modification by Terrace Room of the Plaza on April 22: New York, New York 10022 special permit of mandatory elements we hope this will become an annual 212-838-9670 of Section 81-40, and also the event. We shall have the special allocation of floor area in zoning lots at pleasure of honoring AIA Gold George S. Lewis, Executive Director least 60,000 square feet or when a lot Medalist Romaldo Giurgola and the occupies an entire block. The CPC has Plaza itself on its 75th Anniversary. Executive Committee 1981-82: Joseph Wasserman, President also relaxed mandated pedestrian Arthur I. Rosenblatt, First Vice President space requirements to meet the Tician Papachristou, Vice President Chapter's objections to sidewalk Beyer Blinder Belle has announced the Robert Siegel, Vice President widening that would break street wall appointment of Richard Visconti as Terrance Williams, Secretary continuity.-Further, in residential associate and director of technical Alan Schwartzman, Treasurer buildings the minim um recreational services . .. Ada Louise Huxtable, Frank Eliseo space required for a bonus was who received a coveted MacArthur William Ellis reduced from 5000 square feet to 500. Foundation Fellowship, has resigned Theodore Liebman from The New York Times . ... Paul Nancy A. Miao Stuart Pertz More on Midtown Goldberger, as the paper's senior Mildred F. Schmertz The Report on Metropolis magazine's architecture critic will now also extraordinarily revealing conference contribute to the Sunday edition, NYC/AJA Staff "Midtown: Testing the Zoning perhaps twice a month .... Fox and Cathanne Piesla Proposal," including the architects' Fowle are architects of a 30-story Carol Jones sketches of buildings tested against office tower at 175 Water Street near Jeannette Manzo the daylight evaluation diagram, is the South Street Seaport complex Eileen McGrath available for $10 at Urban Center slated for completion in 1983 .... The Books or at Metropolis. Reliance Development Company's © 1982 The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. award program for distinguished Energy Awards Winner architecture has cited The Eggers In the Chapter's recent Energy Group and Rudin Management Conservation Awards Program the Company for the building at 560 jury-Sital Daryanani, Paul Segal, Lexington Avenue, which backs up to Richard G. Stein, and Robert A.M. St. Bart's Community House, "for Stern-gave one award. It went to keen response to the urban landscape, Kelbaugh & Lee of Princeton, N .J. for pedestrian needs, and its a multi-family, low-rise project. incorporation into a landmark block." . The Gruzen Partnership has Large City Chapters announced the following promotions: At the AIA Grassroots conference in Wallace B. Berger and Barbara Geddis January considerable progress was were named associate partners; Peter made toward establishing the M. Gumpel, and Scott Keller, are new influence of large chapters within the senior associates; David Augustine, AIA. At a meeting chaired by Richard Philip Jones, Fredric Rosen, and Martin Cook, past president of the Chicago Rotondo were named associates . ... Chapter, it was agreed that the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill are Institute seems to be far too little architects for a 55-story mixed-use aware of what chapters such as ours building combining office space and do - how we deal directly with condominiums to be constructed at 33 members, including most of the firms; W. 52 Street .... Emery Roth how the concerns of our members & Sons in association with the Halpern focus on local issues, and how distant Partnership of London are architects the AIA in Washington often seems. A of a planned office building to be group, probably including this writer, constructed on the site of the YWCA's is expected to meet with AIA officials national headquarters at Lexington in Washington next summer. cont'd. p. 12, col 3 Oculus page3 SPECIAL MIDTOWN DISTRICT The Planning Commission·'s proposed Special Midtown District is one of the most sweeping changes in New York zoning in many years. The concept of stabilization of East Midtown and encouragement of growth to the west and south, as well as the introduction of bulk controls through diagrams evaluating daylight at street leve~ are particularly notable. For the District to be put into effect requires approval by the Board of Estimate; its hearing has been tentatively scheduled for April 1. G. L. The Proposed Midtown has involved every major star in the since Rockefeller Center. Zoning: Growth, city planning firmament: public interest groups, developers, I won't catalogue the mistakes, but Preservation, Stabilization architects, economists, labor, there were many. And the City's environmentalists, community difficulties in enforcing these The Association of the Bar of the City representatives, and so on. Discussion increasingly sophisticated covered of New York, on January 18, 1982, had brought us through a draft report amenities proved expensive in a time presented a panel discussion in 1980 to a final report on Midtown of shrinking municipal budgets. organized by the Committee on Development in 1981. Before us now Interior public spaces had a way of Lectures and Continuing Education, are 112 pages of zoning legislation functioning for the most part as chaired by Eugene J. Morris with that implement the recommendations private lobbies. Worst of all, the new Norman Marcus as Program Liaison. of that 1981 report. "brutal" scale of development in the Oculus is indebted to the Bar East Midtown "gold coast," where Association for providing a tape of I have spent the better part of my most private investment was that discussion and expresses its professional life as Counsel to the channeled, tended to overwhelm the appreciation to the speakers for their Planning Commission and have public gestures at the pedestrian permission to excerpt their comments witnessed and helped shape the level. The daylight expectations of the as follows: evolution of Midtown zoning. From a 1961 zoning were increasingly traded largely as-of-right body of regulations, away in favor of public spaces, which which produced predictable wedding­ when not actually located within by Norman Marcus cake setback buildings under the 1916 buildings, tended to bask in shadows ordinance, we moved in 1961 to towers reminiscent of the Wall Street I am really pleased to moderate in large plazas as the favored canyons. tonight's panel discussion of the architectural form. This vision in turn Proposed Midtown Zoning gave way to a system that encouraged And so, inevitably, the current Regulations by three knowledgeable waiver of these regulations in order to Midtown proposal is a revisionist speakers: Ed Barnes, a distinguished achieve more "relevant" public­ document. If we do not learn from our architect familiar with the present as interest amenities. Ironically, these mistakes, we simply go on repeating well as proposed zoning regulations; bulky 60s and 70s "waiver" them. And zoning mistakes tend after Donald Elliott, former Chairman of buildings raised a public outcry all to be big, highly visible, and the City Planning Commission from similar to that inspired by the old wasteful of the City's limited physical 1966 to 1972, a crucial period in which Equitable Building at 120 Broadway, opportunities. the 1961 as-of-right zoning formulas which led to zoning in the first place. gave way to a series of creative public The pending legislative proposal interest innovations; and Paul It was better golden eggs from the therefore has a number of salient thrusts: Goldberger, an articulate and Midtown Development goose that perceptive critic of New York City justified this assumption of 1. An explicit Development Strategy: planning and design. discretionary zoning powers by the Growth, Preservation, Stabilization Planning Commission in the late 60s a) Growth is encouraged in West and The City is well into the final and 70s. In actuality, as built, many of South Midtown by allowing higher as­ implementation phase of its three­ these amenities literally laid an egg; of-right floor area allowances in these year review of Midtown Development and the bigger bulkier buildings, areas than the zoning presently problems. Affected community boards which were their price, broke the scale confers. have completed the ULURP and character of their neighboring recommendations; this week the City areas. However, some of these b) Stabilization of the presently Planning Commission will schedule its interventions did work: new saturated East Midtown core is first public hearing on the proposed legitimate theaters, which incentive achieved by reducing as-of-right floor zoning changes for February 3 at City zoning spawned, replenished one of area allowances in this area. Hall. When the Board of Estimate acts the city's most valuable industries and in late April or early May, we will resources; priceless architectural c) Preservation areas are designated have a substantially new treasures such as Grand Central and on existing legitimate theater sites comprehensive zoning ordinance in the Villard Houses were preserved and in the 50s between Fifth and Sixth Midtown for the first time since 1961.
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