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ARCHITECTSNEWSPAPER 18 11.03.2006 NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM $3.95 NEW YORK PAVILION F 39 IN SIZE AND INCL ANC RESIDENTIAL DESIGN THE BEST LAID PLANS S 11 ATLANTIC YARDS: THREE CRITIQUES 23 CONTENT PLANNING THE UNPLANNED CITY 24 LITTLE MAGAZINES, EXCERPTED MADRID AIRPORT TAKES 05 EAVESDROP QUEENS MUSEUM UNVEILS BRITAIN'S TOP PRIZE 08 IN CONSTRUCTION 26 MARKETPLACE 28 RESOURCES/PRODUCTS GRIMSHAW DESIGN ROGERS' 29 CLASSIFIEDS The Queens Museum of Art Excellence Initiative, admin• of the museum and better (QMA) began plans for an istered by the Department integrate the building into STIRLING expansion in 2004, but when of Design and Construction its surroundings. As one of DEVELOPERS WORRY NEW the original architect, Eric (DDC). In April, the DDC the DDC's highest-profile 421-A PROVISIONS MAY MEAN Owen Moss, was fired from awarded the project to the projects, the QMA expansion CREDENTIALS LESS HOUSING,AFFORDABLE the project the following New York office of London's represents an important The Royal Institute of British Architect's OR OTHERWISE year (see "Trampled Moss," Grimshaw Architects with benchmark for the Design (RIBA) 2006 Stirling Prize was awarded on >^/V02_02.02.2005>, the proj• Ammann & Whitney, selected Excellence initiative. October 14 to the New Area Terminal at ect came under the pur• Mayor Presents from a list of architects pre- The original building hous• Barajas Airport in Madrid by the Richard view of Mayor Michael R. approved by the DDC in 2004. ing the QMA was built as Rogers Partnership. The £20,000 prize is Bloomberg's newly-formed The firm's recently unveiled an exhibition hall for the 1939 given to the best building completed by Affordability Plan Design and Construction design will double the size World's continued on paqe 10 a British architect during the past year. On October 11, Mayor Michael R. Rogers, 73, who studied with the award's Bloomberg announced that he would SILVER BLOCKS PATAKI-BACKED PLAN FOR FARLEY POST OFFICE; namesake Sir James Stirling, said of the endorse recommendations to take a GOVERNOR FURIOUS project, "It was the most satisfying expe• 35-year-old tax incentive program aimed rience I have had in many years," and took at spurring residential development of the opportunity to favorably compare his all types and refocus it on encouraging MOYNIHAN STATION DERAILED Spanish client to the British design scene, affordable housing. The recommenda• which he said leaves him "depressed." tions came after months of research on The plan to transform the Farley Post Office Gargano quickly followed suit with a state• Rogers had a second continued on page 4 the part of a special continued on page 12 on Eighth Avenue into a new transit hub hit ment countering some of Silver's objections: a major stumbling block on October 18 when "I am deeply disappointed that Speaker Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver did not Silver has decided to let New York's com• suggests that local politics endorse it at a meeting of the Public Authorities muters continue to suffer as they make their may have affected dialogue Control Board in Albany. Silver withheld way through the overly crowded and dan• between designer and client. his approval of the proposal championed gerous Penn Station for the sake of special In December 2005, by Governor George Pataki, who promptly interests." Silver countered that there were Holl won an international released a statement accusing the Speaker simply too many unanswered questions about competition held by the city of dirty politics: "Speaker Silver has single- financing forthe $900 million scheme. handedly prevented the most important civic of Denver to design a court• However, Silver has come out in favor of and transportation project in the nation today house near a jail and post a more comprehensive plan for the station from proceeding." Empire State Development office downtown. His design and the blocks around it that has been devel• Corporation (ESDC) chairman Charles featured a wraparound glass oped by Vornado Realty continued on page 4 facade with natural daylight- ing, a green roof, and broad westward vistas. It seemed part of a growing trend in the city, where new cultural build• HOLL TO DENVER: I QUIT! ings by Daniel Libeskind and the London-based architect When Steven Holl walked that there was an impasse David Adjaye were also underway. Mayor lohn away from a $127 million between a public client with Hickenlooper was delighted: courthouse project in down- limited funds and an architect "We are inspired by the cal• town Denver in early October, with limitless ambition. But iber of continued on page 6 local news reports implied a look at the project's context The Microdes Sign up for a 3-day Microdesk training class. Bring in this ad. 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Skidmore, Owings ART DIRECTOR the IVlan Booker Prize for literature and the Martin Perrin LU & Merrill originally won the competition to design a new Pennsylvania Turner Prize for art as the most esteemed SENIOR EDITOR Station in the Farley Post Office, then lost the commission to Hellmuth, awards in Great Britain. The ceremony Anne Guiney Obata + Kassabaum only to gain it back again recently—and now watch is something unimaginable in the United ASSOCIATE EDITOR States—a glamorous dinner event broadcast Andrew Yang as the entire project is derailed by politics. Similarly, Grimshaw won the live on BBC and watched on a Saturday ASSISTANT EDITOR commission to redesign the Queens Art Museum in Flushing Meadow Samantha Topoi evening by more than a million viewers. The Park only after Eric Owen Moss had been fired from the job ( Moss may PROJECT EDITOR ceremony is hosted by two popular television Aaron Seward have won the original high-profile competition unanimously, but he was figures and paced like the Academy Awards, DESIGN AND PRODUCTION sent back to Culver City empty-handed). On the up side, however. Lord with awards given in categories like best Dustin Koda client and best sustainable building, leading SALES AND MARKETING DIRECTOR Richard Rogers was just awarded the Stirling Prize for the best building up to the Stirling Prize. The broadcast also Karen Begley by a British architect in 2006. This is the first time the architect—who included a call-in vote for the public's ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER is responsible for some of the most praised and discussed buildings in Sarah Marsh favorite building among the Stirling nomi• EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Europe—has been so honored. nees: This year, Michael Hopkins' Evelina Stephen Martin Architecture, even in good economic times, is a precarious profession Children's Hospital in London was the win• EDITORIAL INTERNS ner. The three other buildings on the shortlist Matt Chaban where the risks are numerous and the rewards usually slim. Architects were the Brick House in London by Caruso St. often work Ibr many years in offices before they dare open their own John Architects, the Idea Store Whitechapel practice, and often only when they are in their 40s. Many support their by Adjaye Associates, and the Phaeno Science practices with teaching, hoping for the first little public project. When Center in Wolfsburg, Germany by Zaha Hadid Architects, WILLIAM MENKING CONTRIBUTORS an architect finally gets a substantial commission and hires the staff MARISA BARTOLUCCI/DAN BIBB/ALAN C.BRAKE/ needed to produce it, the project may still fall apart for any number of ARIC CHEN / DAVID O'ARCY / MURRAY FRASER / The Stirling is not the only prize awarded during RICHARD INGERSOLL/JULIE V. lOVINE / JOE KERR/ reasons. As of press time, the New York arts foundation Dia Center just the RIBA ceremony. Here are a few of the others: LIANE LEFAIVRE/LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI / announced that it would not go forward with building a satellite along KESTER RATTENBURY / CLAY RISEN / Stephen Lawrence Prize D.GRAHAME SHANE/GWEN WRIGHT/PETER ZELLNER the High Line in the Meatpacking District designed by SOM; and The Best project with a construction budget of New York Times reported that the board of the Whitney Museum may less than £1 million: Wrap House, London, by EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Alison Brooks Architects PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ cancel plans for the Renzo Piano-designed addition uptown and take RIBA Sustainability Award M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ over the Dia site. While the Dia is looking for a new director, and has Building that demonstrates most elegantly and WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ durably the principles of sustainable architecture: SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/REED KROLOFF/ reportedly decided to move more slowly, the Whitney project faces stiff Heelis, the headquarters for the National Trust, JAYNE MERKEL / LISA NAFTOLIN / SIGNE NIELSEN / opposition from neighborhood preservation groups.