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11 ATLANTIC YARDS: THREE CRITIQUES 23 CONTENT S 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

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ROGERS' STIRLING CREDENTIALS continued PUBLISHER CO Take a glance at our front-page stories, and you might feel, as we do, that from front page building nominated for the Diana Darling the high and lows inherent in being an architect have never been more 2006 prize—the National Assembly for EDITORS O Cathy Lang Ho I- apparent. Steven Holl has walked away from a $127 million courthouse Wales in Cardiff. The award is in its 11'" year and has joined William Menking M commission in Denver, lacking confidence in his client. 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. HANS ULRICH OBRIST/JOAN OCKMAN/ Swindon, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ When architects as established—and respected—as Holl, Piano, and Manser Medal TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR / MICHAEL SORKIN Best new home of the year: Holly Barn, SOM lose a major commission, they presumably have the cash flow from Reedham, by Knox Bhavan Architects GENERAL INFORMATION: INFO®ARCHPAPER.COM other work to keep their practices going. 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This installment marks another turn for our Eavesdrop column; Philip Nobel has decided to retire from this post, after only a few short months of service. Or, to > STK be more specific-and to use Philip's own words-he was "pussywhipped" by The < 26 Little West 12th Street New York Times House & Home section into giving up the column, in exchange Tel: 646-624-2444 Z) Designers: Lionel Ohayon, for a contract ensuring a steady stream of work. In the spring, H&H also leaned Siobhan Barry/lcrave heavily on our original Eavesdropper, Aric Chen, to give up his cozy AN roost < if he expected to receive future assignments. We're the first to agree that these talented writers deserve the broadest audience possible, so we forgive them for LU being tempted away. The guestion is, Why is H&H singling us out? The section cm hasn't asked Nobel or Chen to give up their other freelance gigs and, as far as we know, hasn't asked any of its other regular contributors-such as Raul Barreneche, Fred Bernstein, Eve Kahn-to turn their backs on Architectural LU Record, Metropolis, ID, and the like. Also, curiously Chen's editors in the Travel Q. section and T Magazine didn't have problem with his position as Eavesdropper; o only H&H raised complaints.

Both Chen and Nobel said that the section's editors made it clear that the taint of "gossip" was the source of their discomfort, particularly in the wake of the Posf Page Six scandal last spring, in which contributor Jared Paul Stern allegedly attempted to extort $200,000 from billionaire Ron Burkle. We love that the A/Vf thinks that our lil' ol' Eavesdropper could wield enough power to extort untold thousands from humiliation-fearing architects, but haven't they Seasoned designers of after-hours haunts including Crobar, noticed that our target demographic is, in general, poor (stingy) and also uncan• Pangaea, and One, the design/build firm Icrave brings to STK a nily embarrassment-proof? Shortly after Chen's departure from our pages, one sure hand for all things indulgent and a sense of what it means editor of a separate /VVT section was even overheard at a press dinner saying, to see and be seen. The main floor is set up around an ample bar. "What do they think, he's going to shake down David Rockwell?" And anyway, what exactly lies in the balance over at H&H? Hidden Weapons of Mass "This is where people meet and interact, creating a sense of energy Decoration? Rash critigues of the design of Duke University's lacrosse team's that gives the restaurant its atmosphere," said Lionel Ohayon, uniforms? Recently anointed H&H jefe Tom DeKay wouldn't respond to emails, Icrave partner. The rest of the space is broken into distinct parts: but Catherine Mathis, vice president of corporate communications, gave us the In the front is a more casual dining area; a raised bar separated by vague response, "A regular contributor should write nothing elsewhere that could not fit comfortably under his or her byline in the Times." a paneled glass wall is off to the side; and a more formal dining area is located in the back. Here, Icrave opted for booths upholstered in If the A/yr wants to preserve its journalistic integrity, surely there are better white leather with a low back, which offer privacy without taking strategies than dropping its "Bold-faced Names" column and muscling our writ• ers to give up their (fully accountable and fact-checked) dirt-digging-which, to away views of the neighbors. Glass bulb lights hung at different digress, was assessed in the newspaper's own August 16 Science section as being heights above the tables offer points of contrast in an otherwise not as fatuous as people think: "Gossip has long been dismissed by researchers moody space. As a wink to traditional steakhouse decor, they as little more than background noise, blather with no useful function," reported incorporated the cattle horn in a sculptural motif made from mul• Benedict Carey. "But some investigators now say that gossip should be central tiple plasters casts of one horn on the wall above the bar. And this to any study of group interaction." So keep your traps flapping, and don't forget to share. is just one floor of three—wait until the roof opens in the summer.

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the local architect Brian Klipp, whom scheme appear overpriced. Both View of public circulation and the mayor's .staff would ultimately parties worked through the summer waiting area. The sunscreens permit hold accountable for the smooth to agree on numbers and finally gave courtliouses to be naturally lit. running of the process felt that HoU's up in September. firm was unwilling to compromise The architect says the episode when necessary. reinforced the need for a passionate The dispute came down to the sit• architecture advocate on any govern• ing of private entrances for judges ment's staff. But Hickeniooper had and clerks. Mejia explained that Holl's spearheaded the idea for selecting insistence on a wraparound terrace architects for the Justice Center via compromised court staff's safety by competition, and was clearly inspired requiring judges to cross public space by the example of Libeskind's Denver when leaving courtrooms. And he Museum of Art. Indeed, local com• said that when he raised cost con• mentary on Holl's fallout has raised cerns, Holl responded with complex questions about the project's basic adjustments that would have put planning. "The referendum was the project 30 percent over budget. rushed to the ballot and spun to "The suggestions we were hearing Denver voters in a way that hid flaws we typically wouldn't hear until in the timeframe and overall expense," we were doing value engineering," said Bill Vandenberg, who heads a 0 Mejia explained. "Judges and clerks low-income advocacy group called 1 felt we were paying a lot for architec- Progressive Coalition. The reported 5 ture and being cheated on function." budget overruns, he explained, are o Holl insisted that Mejia's architec- "indicative of deeper problems in the £ tural ignorance was the problem. "It's overall project management." K like if you're trying to write a piece Klipp will now take over the £ of music and moving notes around design, and local newspapers are 5 on the staff and someone tells you to giving him the benefit of the doubt. move stuff closer together but he can't Mejia is optimi.stic. "We are going to read music. He couldn't read plans." meet the highest levels of architec• HOLL TO DENVER: I QUIT! continued political capital just to stage the ba.sed and Hartman-Cox as lead Holl said that the partial schematic tural aesthetic without compromis• from front paqe signature architects competition. A vigorous public architects and local firm AR7 Hoover design included a workable private ing function," he .said. who competed lor this opportunity," debate had preceded the referendum Desmond were well underway. The entrance (which Mejia concedes it For his part, Holl believes that he said in a statement at the time. on the larger project called the Denver post office broke ground in August did, albeit in the basement) and that Mejia has cheated the public by act• But his support for Holl—and the Justice Center, of which the court• and the jail's groundbreaking is set he proposed staying on budget by ing as a bean-counter rather than a idea of bringing in another famous house is a part. The referendum for spring. But when Holl submitted using the terrazzo concrete floors he civic patron. "When push comes to architect to downtown Denver— passed, but opponents stayed vocal his 50 percent schematic design in had always proposed. Instead, Holl shove," he said, "you've got to have obscured the tough political fight about their mi.sgivings. early September, his project claims, Mejia used a separate consul• an advocate for the architecture." over public funding for the project. By October 2006, the post office foundered. According to justice tant's cost estimate to make the ALEC APPELBAUM Hickeniooper had expended lots of and jailhouse, by Washington, D.C.- Center project manager James Mejia,

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LU QUEENS MUSEUM UNVEILS closed," said QMA executive daily in Queens. > PUMA UNION SQUARE The expansion is budget• CH GRIMSHAW DESIGN director Tom Finkelpearl. "It 33 Union Square West O continued from front page is imperative to open up ed at $37 million, the major• Tel: 212-206-7761 h- Fair, and according to the center with a light-filled ity of which will come Designers: Paolo Lucchetta, C/5 space." The new facade from City Hall, City Council, Retail Design SRL project architect Andrew -J Whalley of Grimshaw along the Grand Central and the Queens Borough Architects, its transforma• Parkway, which will serve President's office. It is < tion into a museum wasn't a as the primary entrance, scheduled to be complete by late 2009 or 2010, and UJ smooth one. "The clearspan has a glazed facade that will structure makes for a heroic be etched with the name of will include a branch of the space, and you just couldn't the museum in some of the Queens Public Library.

afford to build something scores of languages spoken AC LU like that these days," said Q. Whalley. "We appreciated by and winter o its bigness, but it didn't lend itself to showing art." Grimshaw's solution was to introduce a large winter garden into the space that will serve several crucial Global athletic brand Huma has opened a flagship store on Union Square, functions: It will bring natural which will serve as a prototype for revamping many of its 40 existing stores light into the galleries which across the country and a template for new .stores to come. The driving will be organized around it, concept of the 5,400-square-foot store is modularity: Leaving the walls of and provide a flexible gath• the space fairly untouched, Venetian architect Paolo Lucchetta has intro• ering and event space within duced an array of mix-and-match elements, including fixtures, shelving, the museum. "For a museum glass vitrines,art panels,and more, which can be mounted on walls, sus• in the midst of a park," pended from the ceiling, or positioned on the floor. The point is, the space explained Whalley, "it seems ast facade and entry. can be easily reconfigured according to changing merchandise and to the particularly important to individual needs of each store. The icon of modularity, for the designers, have galleries with natural is the shipping container, so two appear in the store—one adapted into light, and to bring some of the sales register area, and the other into dressing rooms. At the sales count• the park into the building." er, the sharp edge of the sliced container is made cu.stomer-friendly with Another goal of the a thick slab of smooth clear resin (a la LOT-EK's Bohen Foundation in expansion is to create a the Meatpacking District). The designer also wanted to bring some of the more prominent and public urbanity of Union Square into the space, creating a .social area called "Meet entrance. "Right now, from New Friends." The Union Square store features more of the company's per• the park, [the museuml formance products than its SoHO branch, which focuses on sports lifestyle, looks like a nice building, but and its Meatpacking District location, devoted to sports fashion. it also looks like it is always

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ATLANTIC YARDS: Discover THREE CRITIQUES Even when it was thoughtful, the tone of the For Yaro, the chance to enhance open space citizen input on Forest City Ratner's proposal represents the strongest hope for public input. to develop the Atlantic Yards site in Prospect "I think we'll still have street closure but visual• Heights was typically emotional and ly we'll see the interiors of the site," he said, delivered at high volume (see "A Brawl "They've always been prepared for compro• in Brooklyn," AN 14_09.11.2006.) The period mises of this kind." for public comment closed on September 29, but the Municipal Art Society, Regional Department of City Planning: Plan Association, and Department of City Respecting Brooklyn's Skyline Planning (DCP) have all issued memoranda While it comes as no surprise that the DCP that look more critically, and less emotion• has come out in suppoa of the Atlantic Yards— ally, at the plan's details. While all three its boss, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, is an ultimately endorse the idea of high-density enthusiastic supporter—the city agency does development at this intersection of two have some reservations. The DCP's document, major arterial streets and ten mass-transit released on September 26, advocates caps on lines, each has reservations, and also building size and suggests that the open space believe that the project can and should be expanded by 1 acre to a total of 8. Like the create more public places for its adjoining RPA, it endorses the conception of the block neighborhoods. hosting the Frank Gehry-designed arena, but The Empire State Development seeks to keep new buildings from overwhelm• Corporation (ESDC) is currently reviewing ing tne 612-foot-high Williamsburg Savings all of the public input, and will release its Bank eater-corner to the site. That building, Final Environmental Impact Statement currently Brooklyn's tallest, faces a site that (FEIS) sometime in November. Once the DCP has asked Forest City Ratner to "carefully FEIS is released, the ESDC board will vote assess." They suggest shrinking it from 350 on whether or not to approve the plan; many to 250 feet. observers expect it to pass. The final step If RPA's statement takes a region-wide view, will then be the presentation to the Public the DCP document reads like a blueprint. Authorities Control Board (PACB), where It asks for an 8 percent size reduction, reduced many projects with less ambiguous support massing of skyscrapers, and cuts in maximum have foundered. The PACB is controlled tower heights from 550 and 530 feet to 220 Convenience • Ambience • Comfort • Safety by State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and 275 feet. These caps, according to DCP's Senate Majority Leader Frank Bruno, and document, would "enhance the undulating Governor George Pataki. It was the end of skyline." Critically, DCP does not share some Form meets function at home with Miro lighting controls. Once the line for the West Side Stadium in 2005, civic groups' position that any cluster of sky• and looks to be the same for Moynihan scrapers would destroy the area's intimate you've experienced Miro, we're confident it will be your preferred Station. scale. But it does harmonize with those groups, lighting control solution. We will be conducting application Until the FEIS is released, there is a brief and with Brooklyn Borough President Marty lull in the fight surrounding the Atlantic Yards. Markowitz. in calling on the developer to make a demonstrations in select markets, including Dallas. San Diego, For those who have been following the pro• fnendly architectural gesture toward its neighbor and New York City. Attend a Miro application demonstration and be posal's ups and downs, the three following entered to win a Miro lighting control system valued at $4000*. critiques are worthy of close examination. Municipal Art Society: ALEC APPELBAUM Urbanism Above All The venerated arts group issued its position For more information contact: Regional Plan Association: with a June presentation that was extremely Making Hay From a Hub Strategy critical of the plan as it then existed, though not RPA's analysis was released on August 22, arguing against any form of development on West Coast: Midwest: and wholeheartedly endorses the notion that the site. The points of departure for the MAS' Marcia Fournier Barry Glas the confluence of major streets and mass discussion of the proposal emphasize street transit make Atlantic Yards an ideal spot for life, neighborhood-friendly architecture, reuse 760.889.7119 317.698.9878 major economic development. And the analysis of historic structures, and smooth flow of cars marcia.fournierrawattstopper.com barry.glasOwattstoppencom sees a sports arena as a suitable use. The and pedestrians. "Genuine public parks—like report takes a region-wide perspective, point• Brooklyn's Cobble Hill Park and Fort Greene East Coast: ing out that New York City must consider cities Park—are bordered by streets." the presenta• ranging from Tokyo to Hartford as economic tion said. "The 16 towers in a park would Mike Montgomery rivals. Since the region is "running out of devel• suffocate the active street life that Brooklyn 770.786.5929 opable land," the group concludes, the pro• is famous for. Instead, the plan should allow ject's benefits clearly outweigh its costs. But for a continuous and diverse stretch of shops, mike.montgomeryrawattstopper.com the assessment betrays misgivings about how restaurants and other small businesses." people can move to and from the proposed At a practical level, the group proposed two Frank Gehry-designed arena. It asks the state Or visit www.wattstopper.com/miro alternative schemes. The "unity plan" includes and city to study enhanced express bus serv• •Watt Stopper/Legrand covers cost of product only and not installation. Contact rep for demon• a public greenway with retail-and-residential ice and the flow of subway traffic. stration dates. Offer valid until Janurary 2007. Limited to three winners. buildings on the project's south side and a The RPA has focused, Yaro said, on distribut• converted old baker/ on its north, with through ing "parks, playgrounds, things like that" streets instead of the developer's proposed through the project site. Since such amenities closed streets. The "Pacific plan" provides for would feel more welcoming on blocks whose light manufacturing along with retail and resi• J WattStopper scale echoes nearby brownstones, RPA also dential uses. MAS also seeks public ownership endorses more modest buildings. 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$5 Billion O.B.O.," AN if their income surpasses MAYOR PRESENTS AFFORDABILITY PLAN •ISHMAN SPEYER MAKES THE 16_10.06.2006), MetLife $175,000. continued from front page task force con• /INNING BID IN THE LARGEST Rl has been making capital Though MetLife's deci• vened in February. However, some of [STATE DEAL IN U.S. HISTORY improvements to vacated sion saddened Doyle, its members who supported moderniz• apartments and raising whose group enjoyed the ing the program, which is known as421-a, rents to the $2,000 stabi• support of the City Council now question whether the changes may lization-cap since 1993, and Senators Hilary actually hinder affordable housing con• a 151... which then allows them Clinton and Charles struction. to be rented at market rate. Schumer, he offered a "It wasn't like we didn't agree there Since 2001, no regulated resilient message to his needed to be changes," Real Estate Board apartments have been constituents. "We just of New York president Steven Spinola offered, and the complex want to reassure our resi• said, but he, along with many of the now stands at 27 percent dents that everything will developers and some other task force <4S market-rate, 73 percent remain—everyone will members, worry that the pendulum has ESANT stabilized. MetLife claims remain in place." swung too far: "You need the full package they could not cover The sale, widely her• to make housing work in New York," he the stabilized units alded as the largest, most said. If part of that package is emptied, (which average $1,100 per expensive in American "some people won't build." SOLDfOR month) without the mar- real estate history, 421-a is an incentive program designed iket-rate ones ($2,400 per encompasses 80 acres to encourage large-scale residential 5 month). along 1" Avenue between development by offering tax abatements 5.4-BiLLror 5 Speyer's assertion U'" and 23"' streets, with for up to 20 years. As the program that the changes will not atotal of 11,232 units. spurred development in Manhattan's When the property came Midtown and Uptown and more recently Foregoing a second ing middle-class enclaves. resented the paragon of be sudden or dramatic up for sale, many indus• Williamsburg/Greenpoint, those areas round of bidding, MetLife, "The thousands of middle-class living in New is true, because regulated try insiders were skepti• became exclusion zones wherein devel• Inc. announced the sale tenants in rent-stabilized York for six decades, they units are bound by the cal that bids would reach opers could not receive tax abatements of Peter Cooper Village/ apartments are completely do not mean his company Rent Stabilization Law, MetLife's $5 billion ask• unless they provided affordable housing Stuyvesant Town to protected by the existing will avoid the aggressive which restricts annual ing price given the city's on-site, or outside the zone through a Tishman Speyer, in a joint system," Tishman Speyer position many residents increases to 1.5 percent. cooling real estate mar• certificate program. venture with BlackRock president and CEO and real estate observers Though capital invest• ket. The fact Tishman Realty, on October 17. Jerry Speyer said. "No expected of new owner• ments to the apartments, Affordable housing advocates have Speyer topped the bid Their offer of $5.4 billion one should be concerned ship. The existing such as new granite seized upon this part of the program, seek• indicates just how valu• trumped the prominent about a sudden or dra• system, after all, has counter tops, landscaping, ing to expand the exclusion zone, increase able the property really is. $4.5 billion bid by thePCV/ matic shift in this neigh• been increasingly unkind and facilities can also be eligibility from a three- to six-unit mini• ST Tenants Association, borhood's make-up, to rent-stabilized units. added to increase rents, MATT CHABAN mum, and cap abatements at units costing who feared a new owner character, or charm." As PCV/ST Tenants apartments can only be more than $1 million. These are measure Association President Al destabilized between ten• that both for-and non-profit developers might take vigorous steps Though Speyer's words WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM ancies—when rents can agree upon. "One of the insanities of the to capitalize on one of suggest support for a Doyle explained back in jump by 20 percent—or current policy is the more expensive [the Manhattan's few remain• community that has rep• September ("Stuy Town:

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HOW DO YOU CARVE OUT INTERESTING AND LIVABLE APARTMENTS IN NEW YORK? FOUR PROJECTS USE UNCONVENTIONAL TACTICS

New York is filled with all kinds of architect Mike Latham's live/work ment as possible for her client, walls present a neat convergence From left: The great urban spaces—Central Park, apartment for his design firm, who valued two things: his music of constraints: Since the project live/work space of Rockefe/ler Center, Union Square. Arts Corporation, public and pri• and his bicycles. A sitting area is is a complete renovation of a for• Mike Latham and For many New Yorkers, however, vate straddle a very fine line, yet devoted just to listening to music, mer factory space, much of the his company. Arts Corporation; an the most important urban space coexist easily. In Architectural and a bathroom without doors budget went toward infrastruc- open-plan apartment is the one they inhabit. The Research Office's apartment on allows him to haul the bicycle into tural improvements like new by Stephanie Goto cityscape does not always offer Central Park West, the need for the shower—also partitionless— plumbing and new floors. With and Jay Bargmann; the most hospitable options, both privacy and openness led so it can be cleaned. little left for design features, the the Lightbox Loft by and crafting comfortable places Stephen Cassell and Adam For large loft spaces, windows walls do triple-duty, defining and Desai Chia; the that fit a lifestyle is a skill, if not Central Park West Yarinsky to devise a series of pan• and access to light typically drive brightening the space while also a talent. In this issue, we take apartment by ARO. els hung on tracks, which slide the organization of the bedrooms offering built-in display shelves. a look at a variety of domestic out to enclose the entire living and other living areas. But when Whether walls are illuminated, spaces to see how architects have room, and slide back to reveal an Kathy Chia and Arjun Desai of slide on tracks, pivot—or if they intervened to make them into open interior. Desai/Chia Architects and were simply aren't there—it's what livable environments suitable For a bachelor who has virtual• faced with a raw, cavernous, for such diverse clients as a happens between them that's ly no need for privacy within dimly lit space, they chose to light bachelor, a family, and a profes• most important. As Latham puts sional with a live/work situation. his own apartment, architect the apartment from within, creat• it, "In the end, the most important Stephanie Goto's answer was ing illuminated translucent walls thing is the kind of environment For each of these residences, almost the antithesis of architec• that both determine the apart• you've created." the main question is: To be or ture. Goto eschewed walls and ment's spatial organization and ANDREW YANG IS AN EDITOR AT AM. not to be private? In the case of doors to create as simple an apart• light the interior. The lighted 00

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A unique feature of Floor Plan The most impressive part of architect Beyond its obvious playfulness, Mike Latham's apart• 1 Living room Mike Latham's apartment in NoHo—or the Latham's loft design is a clever demon• ment are the series of 2 Work area live/work space inhabited by him and his stration of how to create a live/work space pivoting bookshelves 3 Rolling glass cabinets design consultancy, Arts Corporation— that can sucessfully separate different that appear as a solid (not indicated on plan) are the interior's bells and whistles. spatial functions and identities at the push wall when closed 4 Kitchen Large glass vitrines on wheels, which he of a button (or the pull of a secret book). (top left) but can 5 Bathroom built while living in his last loft apartment opened(above) to the 6 Pivoting shelves Latham even gave himself two ways adjacent room. Glass 7 Bedrooms in Williamsburg, slide in and out to reveal to enter the space—there's one entrance cabinets on wheels neatly arranged jars with nuts and bolts into to the main apartment and other (top right) enable and impeccably organized binders, among directly to the bedroom. He explained, easy reconfiguration. other things. The bathroom seems like a "I do find myself needing to change my science project in progress: large and space, constantly." AY small tubes run up to the shower, which is a glass case on wheels that moves just in case he gets tired of showering in the same place every morning. The best trick in the apartment is a bookshelf, which divides the private rear portion of the apartment from the more public front office: When a secret book is pulled, the unit turns 90 degrees to reveal the bedroom chamber. Latham's inspira• tion? "Scooby Doo," he deadpanned. "Sometimes practical things get pushed beyond what is necessary," said Latham, a Columbia-trained architect who has sev• eral apartments under construction, and who also works as a fine artist. "That's when you get things like the mobile shower." Once in the rear private zone, 0 another row of seemingly normal book• shelves appear; they also pivot centrally, opening up the bedroom to an adjoining study/guest bedroom. =3

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The value of New York City apartments often centers heavily on the number of bedrooms—from the economical (relatively) studio to the coveted "Classic Six" (two bedrooms with full kitchens and baths). However, when a cycling enthusiast purchased a 1,400-square-foot space in Midtown Manhattan, he wanted no bedrooms— or kitchen, dining room, or living room, for that matter. Instead, he asked for an apartment that was as spare as possi• ble—no doors, no walls—just the bare necessities. Even the bathroom is open to the rest of the apartment For this client, architect Stephanie Goto created what she called a series of "zones" that suggest different areas without defining them with walls or enclosures. (In fact, with the exception of the ebony-stained kitchen cabinets, none of the furniture even touches the walls.) "I designed the place not have to deal with the conventions of walls and doors," said Goto, who earlier this year supervised the completion of the restaurants Morimoto by Tadao Ando and Buddakan by Christian Liaigre. The apartment—almost monastic in nature if not for the luxurious furnishings, including Eames chairs and a Bang & Y Olufsen stereo system—is divided into the Eating Zone, the Listening Zone, • { and the Sleeping Zone—areas that per• mit its resident to engage in his primary primary activities. "There's a certain purity to [the space], the idea that you only live with the essentials," said Goto. And the materials used in the apartment reflect that sim• plicity and sincerity. "Wood is wood," she said, AY

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To bring light into a large apartment with only two windows exposures, the architects created several illuminated translucent plastic walls that also carve out various rooms.

When a client came to architects Kathy Chia and Arjun Desai with a brand-new 4,000-square-foot apartment they had purchased in Midtown, the space was entirely raw and lacked one of the quali• ties coveted by all homeowners: natural light. It featured windows only along the front and rear walls. How to bring light to the center of the apartment would be up to the architects. Organizing the loft in an efficient way was familiar territory for Desai and Chia, who have several large New York loft projects under their belt. By configuring the bedrooms, or study, to the side of the space, the architects created a wide central corridor that became the axis of the apartment. On both sides of this corridor, the architects designed 8-foot- tall light boxes, constructed out of laser- cut Acrilyte, a lightweight, thermal, heat-resistant typically used in as air• craft glazing. Inside are dimmable MR- 16 lights that can control the ambiance of the rooms bordered by the walls. "Those light box elements became part of the rooms," said Chia. "Even without PROJECT: LI6HTB0X LOFT natural light, the loft has the sense of LOCATION: MIDTOWN MANHATTAN an illuminated interior." DESIGNER: DESAI CHA ARCHITECTS Since the side rooms don't have windows, the lighted walls stop short of the ceiling, allowing for air circulation. "The light walls were also a way for EVERYTHING us to dematerialize partitions so they are not just solid sheet rock walls or two dimensional planes," said Chia. "They IS create a depth in and of themselves." AY ILLUMINATED Floor Plan CREDITS Living areas Kitchen ARCHITECT: Bedroom DESAI/CHIA ARCHITECTURE; Bathroom KATHERINE CHIA AND ARJUN DESAI, Lighted walls PRINCIPALS ENGINEER: SIMON RODKIN CONSULTING ENGINEERS LIGHTING CONSULTANT: CHRISTINE SCIULLI LIGHT +DESIGN GENERAL CONTRACTOR: J. KANE CONTRACTING

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EVENT EXHIBITION OPENINGS WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER o New York Society of Yumi Kori LECTURES o FRIDAY 3 Architects Centennial Dinner Shinkai Fabian Marcaccio f\J LECTURE 6:00 p.m. ISE Foundation 3:15 p.m. Architecture and Books Tavern on the Green 555 Broadway Parsons The New School LU 306090-. Decoration Central Park and West 67th St. www.isefoundation.org Swayduck Auditorium 65 5th Ave. m 6:30 p.m. www.nysarch.com Urban Center White Columns Annual www.parsons.edu :E EXHIBITION OPENINGS White Columns LU 457 Madison Ave. Jannis Kounellis 320 West 13th St. Cheryl Robertson > www.mas.org www.whitecolumns.org Christopher Dresser: O Cheim & Reid SYMPOSIUM 547 West 25th St. An Anglo-Japanese The Art of Collaboration www.cheimread.com SATURDAY 11 Cultural Broker Thomas Woltz, SYMPOSIUM 6:00 p.m. John Saladino, et al. Mira Nakashima Illustration Today New York School of New York School of Perry Rubenstein Gallery Mara Kalman, Dan Nadel, Interior Design Paper Rad, et al. Interior Design 527 West 23rd St. Arthur King Satz Hall OMA IN BEIJING: Parsons the New School Arthur King Satz Hall www.perryrubenstein.com 170 East 70th St. CHINA CENTRAL TELEVISIO HEADQUARTERS for Design 170 East 70th St. www.nysid.edu Museum of Modern Art, www.nysid.edu Michael Beutler, Damien Tishman Auditorium 11 West 53rd Street Roach, Jenny Vogel, et al. 66 West 12th St. EXHIBITION OPENINGS November 15-February 26, 2007 SATURDAY 4 Housewarming www.parsons.edu OMA in Beijing: EXHIBITION OPENING Swiss Institute China Central Television OMA in Beijing is the latest in a group of exhibitions at Headquarters by Ole Robert Longo 495 Broadway, 3rd Fl. EXHIBITION OPENINGS the Museum of Modern Art that offer a focused, in-depth Scheeren and Rem Koolhaas Metro Pictures www.swissinstitute.net Ellsworth Kelley: look at one architectural project currently in process. As Museum of Modern Art 519 West 24th St. Sketchbook 23,1954 put together by assistant curator Tina di Carlo, the show The New Street: Matthew Marks Gallery 11 West 53rd St. argues that the China Central Television (CCTV) www.metropictures wvvw.moma.org gallery.com Innovation at the Perimeter 526 West 24th St. Headquarters and its smaller counterpart, the Television Municipal Art Society www.matthewmarks.com Cultural Center (TVCC) do nothing less than reimagine the SUNDAY 5 457 Madison Ave. Flash Points prevailing urban structure, the skyscraper, with a form di LECTURE www.mas.org Elanore Mikus Gilles Peress, Carlo describes as "a continuous folded loop in space." Eyal Weizman From Shell to Skin Candace Scharsu "Everything from 20th-century architecture is incorporated Sidney Mishkin Gallery into this project," said di Carlo. The building, which broke 12:00 p.m. THURSDAY 9 The Drawing Center 135 East 22nd St. ground in 2004 and is scheduled to open by the 2008 SculptureCenter SYMPOSIUM 35 Wooster St. www.baruch.cuny.edu Olympics, will house all the state-owned TV production 44-19 Purves St., Queens The Sustainable City: wvvw.drawingcenter.org Green Brooklyn Conference facilities and administration offices, as well as extensive www.sculpture-center.org viewing rooms, cinemas, and recording studios. Brooklyn Borough Hall She's Like a Rainbow: Reconsidering Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates: Although for the most part private, the CCTV tower's EXHIBITION OPENING 209 Joralemon St., Brooklyn Color in Fashion Maps and Drawings by design includes a visitor's loop through the entire build• Manet and the wvvw.bcue.org Fashion Institute of Martin Hogue ing allowing the public to travel through and view each Execution of Maximilian Technology Municipal Art Society stage of media production. Architectural drawings and Museum of Modern Art LECTURES West 27th St. and 7th Ave. 457 Madison Ave. models from MoMA's permanent collection attempt to 11 West 53rd St. Peter Cook www.fitnyc.edu www.mas.org contextualize the building in the development of the viww.moma.org Cities: modern metropolis, along with graphics, renderings, and Enjoying the Frayed Edges MONDAY 13 large- and small-scale models from OMA, many of which THURSDAY 16 MONDAY 6 6:00 p.m. EXHIBITION OPENING will be on view to the public for the first time. Outdoor LECTURE LECTURE City College Karen Frank, Ron Schiffman Shepard Hall David Zwirner Gallery Quentin Stevens Beyond the Marketplace: Convent Ave. and 138th St. 525 West 19th St. www.davidzwirner.com Loose Space Towards an Equitable www.ccny.cuny.edu 6:30 p.m. Housing Program Urban Center 5:30 p.m. Steven Holl, Thom Mayne, EVENT 457 Madison Ave. Center for Architecture Bernard Tschumi Mary Ellen Carroll: www.mas.org 536 LaGuardia PI. Preservation: indestructible language wvvw.aiany.org Complementary/Contrasts 7:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. American Can Company EXHIBITION OPENINGS Kiki Smith TUESDAY 7 Cedar Lake Theater 50 Dey St. A Gathering, 1980-2005 LECTURES 547 West 26th St. Jersey City Whitney Museum of Sharon Lockhart RSVP required. 212-669-7819 www.precipice-alliance.org American Art 6:30 p.m. 945 Madison Ave. The New School EXHIBITION OPENINGS TUESDAY 14 www.whitney.org Tishman Auditorium www.JonasMikas.com LECTURE Thom Mayne 66 West 12th St. Maya Stendhal Gallery Claude Wampler www.publicartfund.org 545 West 20th St. 6:00 p.m. www.mayastendhal Cooper Union Porformaneo (career ender) The Great Hall The Kitchen Calvin Tsao, Margaret gallery.com 7 East 7th St. 512 West 19th St. Newman, Kitty Hawks, et al. YUMI KORI: SHINKAI www.archleague.org www.thekitchen.org Interior Dialogues Kimsooja ISE Cultural Foundation, 6:30 p.m. The Project 555 Broadway EXHIBITION OPENINGS FRIDAY 17 New York Institute 37 West 57th St. November 7-December 30 Clip, Stamp, Fold: EXHIBITION OPENINGS of Technology www.elproyecto.com The Radical Architecture Spanish Painting from Those who may have missed Yumi Kori's project S^S 16 West 61st St. of Little Magazines El Greco to Picasso: at the South Street Seaport last fall have another chance www.nyit.edu Surrender Deitch Projects Storefront for Art and Time, Truth, and History to experience this architect's meditative forays into Architecture Solomon R. Guggenheim installation art. Shinkai, which means "deep ocean" in WEDNESDAY 8 76 Grand St. 97 Kenmare St. Museum Japanese, will occupy the ISE Cultural Foundation's win- LECTURES www.deitch.com www.storefrontnews.org 1071 5th Ave. dowless basement gallen/, and use Kori's familiar materials Anthony Alofsin www.guggenheim.org Simryn Gill of colored light, sound, and balloons to experiment When Buildings Speak: with creating a timeless, boundless atmosphere. "In my Tracy Williams Trevor Paglen Architecture as Language architecture, I always want to create flexible boundaries, 313 West 4th St. Terminal Air Odili Donald Odita: in the Habsburg Empire and which is a very traditional Japanese approach," said Kori. www.tracywilliamsltd.com SculptureCenter Fusion its Aftermath, 1867-1933 "As an artist, I can focus on the aesthetic aspect of what 44-19 Purves St. Jack Shainman Gallery 6:30 p.m. that means. It is architecture without function, a site FRIDAY 10 Queens 513 West 20th St. Neue Galerie New York transformed to create a sensation." Kori and collaborator LECTURE www.sculpture-center.org www.jackshainman.com 1048 5th Ave. Bernhard Gal recorded and manipulated sounds at the www.neuegalerie.org Wolf Prix site—the wheezing of a boiler, the vibrations of the sub• 6:00 p.m. way passing by—to further the idea of experiencing Cooper Union Samuel C. Morse what is beyond the gallery walls. The Great Hall Aesthetic Ideals: 7 East 7th St. A Contrast of Traditions www.archleague.org 6:00 p.m. New York School Of Interior Design Arthur King Satz Hall TO LIST YOUR EVENT VISIT WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM 170 East 70th St. WRITE TO FOR COMPETITION LISTINGS www.nysid.edu DIARY'SARCHPAPER.COM > LU

As a participant in the Caracas Urban Think Tank, Brazilian photographer Andre Cyprlano- documented the city's many barrios, including Petare. one of the country's largest.

larly indexes the ways in which many of ent? Their sheer size and scale, for one: Urban 30 or so years of laissez-faire foreign aid today's fastest-growing cities (Lagos, for squatting and other such improvised ways of policies have had on the developing world. SETTLING example) function and even thrive in spite of occupying urban space have become all but A most significant precedent in this last the fact that they do not conform to conven• commonplace in the modern-day megacity, regard is the "sites and services" develop• tional models of planning. Most recently, three that is, urban centers whose populations ment strategy that Robert McNamara initiated FOR MORE new books—Mike Davis' Planet of Slums, exceed 8 million. As Davis points out in during the 1970s as head of the World Bank. Robert Neuwirth's Shadow Cities, and Planet of Slums, "If megacities are the bright• Teaming up with anarchist planner and Informal City: The Caracas Case, edited by est stars in the firmament, three-quarters of architect John Turner, whose thinking Alfredo Brillembourg, Kristin Feireiss, and the future world population growth will be must have been informed by the "plug-in" Planet of Slums Hubert Klumpner—offer a fascinating account born by second-tier cities and smaller urban philosophy of avant-garde libertarians like Mike Davis, Verso, S24.00 of how the proliferation of megacities and the areas, places where there is little or no plan• Archigram, he sought to promote "sponta• attendant explosion of non-sanctioned and Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters. ning." The population of Lagos has risen 40- neous" urbanization through the building out A New Urban World non-regulated settlements in the developing fold since 1950, reaching 13.4 million in 2004, of wet infrastructure and rudimentary trans• Robert Neuwirth, Routledge, $18.95 world is changing not just how we think about and its numbers continue to skyrocket despite portation systems in areas in which squatter the city, but also, more intriguingly, urban the fact that unemployment is also on the rise. settlements had already begun to take root. Informal City: Caracas Case planning in general. In all cases, the authors Other scholars echo Davis' concerns. In her As urban economist Cedric Pugh (whom Edited by Alfredo Brillembourg, grapple with the effects of globalization and Kristin Feireiss, and Hubert Klumpner, contribution to Informal City: Caracas Case, Davis cites) put it, the intention here was Prestel, $60.00 economic liberalization on the contemporary historian Gwendolyn Wright reports that a "to make housing affordable to low-income city. But they also debate the relative merits full one-third to one-half of the inhabitants in households without the payment of subsi• of market-driven approaches to development, megacities in South America live in self-built dies, in contrast to the heavily subsidized Interest in the study of informal urban settle• which constitute the most dominant way of environments. They lack basic sanitation and public-housing approach." ments—that is, unofficial, extra- or illegally thinking about planning today. sometimes even potable water. As sociolo• According to Davis, such market-driven occupied urban sites—has grown exponen• Informal settlements are nothing new. gist Saskia Sassen adds in her contribution approaches to planning have proven to be a tially over the last couple of years. In 2000, European cities of the Middle Ages had to The Informal City, their conditions are part complete failure. They result in gentrification, Manuel DeLanda published A Thousand Years growth patterns driven by markets and terri• and parcel of a larger pattern of economic raise construction and building maintenance of Nonlinear History (Zone Books), which torial boundaries rather than civic codes or exploitation involving global multinationals costs by stifling economies of scale, erode considers, among other things, the important municipal edicts. During World War I, self- on the one hand, and an increasingly unsta• networks of trust, and chip away at the role that improvisation and ad-hoc reasoning built settlements sprang up on the edges ble and fragmented underclass on the other. public sphere. More populist alternatives to has played in the history of urban form. of war-torn cities such as Vienna, where Indeed, the favalasoi Brazil or barrios oi the McNamara/Turner approach are hardly In 2000, Rem Koolhaas collaborated on the massive food and housing shortages forced Venezuela are not to be seen as spontaneous of greater value. For Davis, Peruvian econo• exhibition and catalogue Mutations: Harvard citizens to occupy municipally-owned lands. expressions of popular solidarity, but reflect, mist and activist Hernando De Soto's view Project on the City (Actar, 2001), which simi• What makes today's informal cities differ• as Davis argues, the devastating effects that that informal continued on page 30

urbanity, but they leave the viewer wondering near Central Park, Robert Towne greets its how they critique it. Pretty and superficial, viewers unexpectedly. For the dozens who Looking Up much of Morris' work fills the same role in lunch, smoke, and talk in the Lever House's popular culture that a Hollywood starlet or a outdoor space, the painting is mesmerizing, soulless skyscraper does. But with her latest Sarah Morris: Robert Towne yet inexplicable; pulsing and exciting, but Lever House installation, Robert Toivne (named after the directionless. Named after a director whose 390 Park Avenue famed scriptwriter of Bonnie and Clyde, films are ruthlessly real, Morris' installation Through December 3 Chinatown, and other classics of the 1960s is likewise in-your-face and confrontational. and '70s), Morris may be finally making her At the very least, the piece speaks to the long-vaunted commentary on architecture. many missed opportunities to enhance public Sarah Morris' art is touted for its allusions to Located on the underside of the Lever space with art. It continues the dialogue that and interpretations of the urban environment. House's atrium ceiling, this 19,744-square-foot the Lever House started almost 60 years ago, With deft mimicry of the grids found in installation of brightly colored house paint when the building redefined how architects cityscapes, her Midtown series of paintings gives new life to an unused space along Park could merge architectural behemoths with (1998-99) recall the green-glass-windowed Avenue's sea of gray suits and black streets. human-scaled courtyards. /?ot)err Towne offers facades of a Gordon Bunshaft building. She Here, Morris' Technicolor mural—aptly a Utopian vision where the grid is replaced followed these up with the series Los Angeles applied to one of Bunshaft's most celebrated by a maze; where swathes of energetic hues (2005-06), in which her Mondrian-like works—offers an alternative reality to the replace neutral ones; and where people walk abstractions were more frantically paced and muted tones of Midtown. Like many of the while looking up instead of at their feet. garishly colored, referencing architectural other pieces funded by the city's Public Art icons in Los Angeles. DIANA LIND IS A NEW YORK-BASED WRITER. HER Fund, such as Anish Kapoor's Sky Mirror at FORTHCOMING BOOK IS ABOUT NEW ARCHITECTURE The pieces riff on the chaos and colors of Rockefeller Center or Sarah Sze's Corner Plot IN BROOKLYN (RIZZOLI, Z008). 2

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Recent years have On January 12th 1973 a group of thirty-one Arquitecturas Bis no.4, November: Nathan Rogers'editorship of the Italian witnessed a resurgence of international Italian architects, artists, and critics gathered One year before the death of the Spanish magazine CasobeZ/a.This pairing of Rossi and interest in the architecture of this period, yet in the offices ofCasabella and founded the dictator Franco, in 1974, a group of Gregotti was also a proxy for the intellectual the role of the many experimental publica• "counter-school" Global Tools, a "system of intellectuals—most of whom were architects positions within Arquitecturas Bis'own tions that were the engine of that intensely workshops" created "to stimulate the free with a past of political resistance—started a editorial board, a divide that Rafael Moneo creative moment has been largely neglected. development of individual creativity."The Catalan independent"little"magazine acutely characterized as the "Utopia of reality" Lead by Beatriz Colomina and collaboratively first production of that collective was the entitled Arquitecturas 6/s.Oriol Bohigas (for Gregotti and Bohigas) and the "Utopia of researched by Ph.D. students in the School of publication, in June 1974, of a 28-page, black jumpstarted the magazine together with the architecture" (in the case of Rossi).These Architecture at Princeton University, the and white bulletin containing the founding publisher Rosa Regas and the designer Enric polarities were visually organized in a layout project assembles over seventy different documents of Global Tools (a "constitution," a Satu6;its editorial board included Rafael of parallel columns of text, each of which was magazines published in over a dozen mission statement, the program of the Moneo, Helio Pihon, Federico Correa, LIuis supported by portraits of Gregotti and Rossi different cities. Developed through two years school, the list of participants), and excerpts Domenech,and Manuel de Sol^-Morales,as and linked by the title-block of the magazine; of seminars, interviews, and visits with of a discussion among some of the partici• well as the philosopher Tomas Llorens.atthe at the top of this layout was a pediment - a editors, architects, and critics, the research pants (Lapo Binazzi, Andrea Branzi,Germano time exiled in England.The title's visual pun of Gregotti & Rossi's analogy to will culminate in an exhibition at the Celant, Ugo La Pietra, Alessandro Mendini, redundancy—the plural "architectures" the Martini Rosso logo. Storefront for Art and Architecture in New Adolfo Natalini, Franco Raggi and Ettore redoubled by the word "bis"—reflects the York, from November 14,2006 to January 31, Sottsass, Jr). G/060/ Tools attempted to give magazine's intellectual agenda: rather than a 2007. In advance of this event, and in the cohesion and continuity to a constellation of manifesto-like statement of intentions Ghost Dance Times no.1, October 18th: spirit of the magazines themselves, a practices, precisely at the moment when Arquitecturas Bis was a varied forum, an Ghost Dance Times was a weekly satirical component of the exhibition's most of the Italian Radical groups were endless debate between different positions newspaper published at the Architectural architecture—a timeline tracking the beginning to disperse.The first Global Tools and from different angles. Its unusual Association (AA) in London from 1974 to development of magazine covers—will be bulletin identified a common ground for this format—developed by Satue in order to gain 1975. Free of charge and circulated within disseminated in segments through several attempt:"[We] wish to bridge the alienating visibility in the crowded world of profes• the AA, Ghost Dance Times was edited by magazines internationally. The Architect's gap which has been created between the sional magazines—approximated that of the recent AA graduate Martin Pawley and Newspaper presents here significant covers functions of the hands and those of the newspaper, an appropriation of both the initiated by AA Chairman Alvin Boyarsky.The that appeared during the year 1974. mind."The many illustrations of handicraft tabloid size and the editorial protocol of a title of the newspaper, as the cover of the first production in the bulletin outline a critical broadsheet, placing the magazine's internal issue explains, is derived from the name of a C//p, Stamp, Fold: The Architecture of Little return to "the study and use of natural debates before a wider public forum. From Native American dance ritual, whose Magazines 196X-197X \s curated by Beatriz techniques and materials," underscored by Spain's transition to democracy in 1975 to its performance was believed to invoke spiritual Colomina with Craig Buckley Anthony the prototypical tool of (non-alienated) labor, integration in the European Union in 1986, protection in wartimes.The newspaper's Fontenot, Urtzi Grau, Lisa Hsieh, Alicia the hammer, featured on the cover.The Arquitecturas Bis facilitated the transforma• own spirit, then, was that of resistance - not Imperiale, Lydia Kallipoliti,Olympia Kazi, founders of Global Tools envisioned a series tion of a democratic space of publication into only to the conventions of architectural Daniel Lopez-Perez, and Irene Sunwoo. of workshops and seminars around five main a collectively built public space, showcasing education in general, in which context the This project has been been made possible themes: Body, Construction, Communication, models, publishing projects, and staying AA is viewed as "the last of the indepen• through the generous support of the Survival, and Theory.This collective experi• attuned to international debates while dents," but also within the AA itself. 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eloquent - commentary on the AA's with Sky Denise Scott-Brown considers Las the tripartite relationship of object-city- Cook was no stranger to the organization of activities, its teaching staff, and its students. Vegas in the context of the energy crisis, society, but now also encompassed the new exhibitions. Next door to the Archigram Pawley believed "wholeheartedly in the value while an article by Vittorio Giorgini articu• concept of environment, as announced in Architeas' London office was the group's of such internal criticism and appraisal,"and lates a new"spatiology" theory by mapping the two lengthy subtitles regularly present Adhocs (Addhox) Gallery, which had hosted reciprocally welcomed letters from members invisible phenomena and juxtaposing energy on its covers:"lnterventions and analysis of the first British exhibition of the Austrian of the school community to voice their to mechanization. Further still, the radical the environment and of the cultural system" group Coop Himmelb(l)au, and following the opinions on the AA, as well as on Ghosf Italian group UFO offers video and photo• and "Towards a creative attitude in the last issue of Archigram in 1970 Cook served Donee Times. In addition to coverage of graphic experiments to render the "over-real process of re-appropriation of the environ• as director of the Institute of Contemporary events at the school, and following the fluxus of energy" produced by the traversing ment." In November 1974 Inpiu launched a Arts (ICA) in London until 1972. After the standard format of a newspaper, Ghosf Dance of a car and an airplane through an estab• new, non-monographic editorial program office of Archigram Architects closed in 1973, Times featured articles on politics, reviews lished fieldwork territory. 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A," or "Alcoholic divorcee offers Towards this fascination, technological "Ramification and Propagation,""lnhabit Reyner Banham, and Clement Greenberg, home cooking and southern comfort to innovation was not an endpoint; the lure was Better" by Salz der Erde, and Coop among others, as well as conferences on impoverished student. All you have to do is to form a new collective energy-related Himme(l)blau's"Trip through the scenes." topics such as "Conceptual Architecture" and listen."" social consciousness. Compared to the contemporaneous "The Suburbs." 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We know that architects don't spend all their time hooked up to CAD; tell us where you go when you're not working. 22. Is there a new.sstand that stocks good or hard-to-find architecture publications? 23. What's your favorite architecture website? • 24. Which design-y bar or restaurant do you take friends who are visiting from out of town? To which hotel do you send your vi.siting design-conscious friends?

25. And finally, tell us about a favorite in any category that we mi.ssed—we want to know!

Optional THE Submitted by: ARCHITECTSNEWSPAPER Contact info (address, phone, or email): 21 Murray Street, 5"^ floor New York, NY 10007 Fax 212-966-0633 Please mail or fax this to us by December 11 You can also visit our website, www.archpaper.com, to fill it out online. Thanks for your responses, and we'll share your favorites in our first issue of 2006.