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Cyclorama Center in Gettysburg by Richard Modern architecture looms large on the FREEDOM TOWER REDESIGN 's (WMF) 2006 Neutra (1958-1961) FAILS TO IMPRESS SUPREME COURT OKAYS watch list of the 100 most endangered sites Cyclorama Center, 2 , and GOVERNMENT LAND SEIZURES in the world, announced on June 21 in New the International Fairground in Tripoli, York. The list has been published biennially Lebanon—were most likely beyond hope of FOR PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT since 1995, and this year's includes nine saving but could serve as poster children for Faulty Tower 20th-century buildings—three in the United the cause of modem preservation. "There is a On June 30, the day after the unveiling of States: Richard Neutra's Cyclorama Center good chance that these buildings will be lost, David Childs' redesign of the Freedom in Gettysburg (1958-1961), Frank Lloyd PRIVATE but like Penn Station, they can call attention Tower, Robert A. M. Stern publicly Wright's Ennis Brown House in Los Angeles to a better process in the future," she said. remarked on its similarity to the Comcast (1924), and 's building at Beyond calling attention to endangered Center, a tower he designed in 2001 for a 2 Cx)lumbus Circle in (1960-1964). sites, the WMF funds preservation efforts DOMAIN site in downtown Philadelphia. The proj• Bonnie Burnham, president of WMF, said, through private and corporate donations. So ect, published in Stern's 2003 monograph On June 23, the Supreme "Perceived obsolescence and a lack of recog• far, the organization has granted $35 million and now five months into construction, nition for the importance of modern build• Court set a precedent for governmental to 195 sites in 73 countries and estimates features a square base and cut-away cor• ings are the biggest challenges facing these use of eminent domain to seize land for that an additional $127 million has been ners that create an octagonal floor plan on nine sites." Burnham went on to comment private development. In the case of Kelo donated by local organizations and govern• that at least three of the sites—the upper floors, resulting in a square at the V. New London, the court ruled 5 to 4 in ments as a result of continued on page 4 top of the roof that's rotated 45 degrees favor of the Connecticut city, which is from the base. Frederic Schwarz, too, was pushing forward plans to redevelop 90 quick to note that Childs' second effort acres of its Fort Trumbull neighborhood. PLAN TO REVITALIZE LOWER 'S EAST-WEST CORRIDOR TO BE echoed aspects of the World Cultural In the 1960s, blighted areas were knocked RELEASED LATE SUMMER Center proposed by continued on page 6 down to make way for public housing, highways, and other civic works. But in the New London case, the condemned Fulton Street Plan Chugs Along FINDINGS RAISE BUILDING neighborhood is working-class, and a SECURITY STANDARDS private developer, Boston-based As the rebuilding of the Corcoran Jennison Companies, will reap WTC site inches along, the NIST RELEASES the profits of the planned development. LMDC continues to juggle New London attorneys argued that dozens of improvement ini• WTC REPORT demolishing the neighborhood would tiatives for the blocks sur• serve the public good since the new rounding . In Almost four years after 9/11, the National development would bring jobs and April, a lecture series at the Institute of Standards and Technology increased tax revenue to the city's strug• Center for Architecture (NIST) released a final draft report on the gling economy. Thomas J. Londregan, sought to heighten aware• WTC di.saster, along with 30 recommenda• director of law for continued on page 3 ness of the LMDC's plans tions for improving building security. The for Greenwich Street South two-year, $16 million federal study involved (see "A New Battery Park," two hundred building science, engineering, /AA/08_ 5.11.2005) and the and code experts. NIST is a regulatory Brooklyn Bridge Landing agency, without enforcement powers. and continued on page 2 "The recommendations are realistic and achievable, and should improve how people design, construct, maintain and use build• ings, especially highrises," said the report's lead investigator, Shyam Sunder. Based on the agency's scientific analysis of the fires and collapses of the Twin Towers, the rec• ommendations are grouped into eight cate• gories: increased structural integrity to prevent progressive collapse; enhanced fire resistance of structures; new fire resistance design methods; continued on page 2 CO (NJ 3 O LU

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NIST RELEASES WTC REPORT continued Uom PUBLISHER CO In 1985, Rosalie Genevro became the director of the front page active fire protection; improved Diana Darling Architectural League. She had been working at the Urban building evacuation; emergency response; EDITORS o procedures and practices; and education and Cathy Lang Ho I— Center Bookstore and before that, Advisory Services for William Menking training for engineers and architects. l-H Better Housing, a nonprofit dedicated to improving public NIST advocates designing tall buildings to ART DIRECTOR housing projects in the city. Shortly after she assumed her post accommodate full building evacuation, with Martin Perrin LU wider stairwells and exit capacity for first SENIOR EDITOR at the League, she hired Anne Rieselbach, then an editor of Anne Guiney House and Garden magazine (and formerly with Vanity Fair, responders and occupants. The number, loca• tion and stair widths in the Twin Towers were ASSOCIATE EDITOR where she worked with Suzanne Stephens), to help produce a critical in determining how rapidly thousands Deborah Grossberg catalogue for the first five years of the organization s Emerging DESIGN AND PRODUCTION of p>eople evacuated the buildings, and were Daniil Alexandrov Voices program and to serve as that program's director. Twenty part of the detailed analysis. "The cost of enlarging or adding egress stairs EDITORIAL ASSISTANT years later, the chapter of the AIA has recog• Gunnar Hand nized their work with a special Award of Merit. The award will be very high, perhaps prohibitive," said EDITORIAL INTERNS Elizabeth Heider, vice president of Skanska Jaffer Kolb honors Genevro and Reiselbach s "efforts to create a forum USA Building. "More exit stairs and corridors Stephen Martin that has drawn the best, brightest, most current thinking translate to lost rentable space and revenue." Jenny Wong fi-om around the world to the New York design community," The report also proposes that existing build• SALES AND MARKETING DIRECTOR according to a proclamation read at the chapter's yearly board ings be renovated to adopt its recommended Karen Begley meeting on June 20. egress and sprinkler requirements. MARKETING INTERNS Addressing the issue of structural integrity, John Leonard the report encourages the nationwide adoption Nieka Thomas The League was founded in 1881 by Cass Gilbert and a group of young architects as a way to further their own education in of standards and codes to prevent progressive CONTRIBUTORS collapse. But this concern mitigates against a MARISA BARTOLUCCI/ALAN G.BRAKE/ architecture. They would get together, assign themselves a range of hazards, from terrorism to high winds ARIC CHEN/DAVID D'ARCY / MURRAY FRASER/ sketch problem, and invite more established architects to cri• and natural disasters. "It's important for the RICHARD INGERSOLL/JULIE lOVINE / JOE KERR/ LIANE LEFAIVRE/LUIGI PRESTINEN2A PUGLISI/ tique their work. The League under Genevro and Rieselbach public to understand that recommendations KESTER RATTENBURY/D.GRAHAME SHANE/ still very much fulfills a mentoring, educational role. They for the future do not necessarily indicate that PETER SLATIN/KATSU TANAKA/GWEN WRIGHT/ somediing was deficient in the past," said struc• ANDREW YANG/PETER 2ELLNER actively seek out outstanding architects and urbanists from tural engineer Richard Tomasetti, chairman of EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD New York and beyond, avoiding parochialism and constandy Thornton-Tomasetti Group. "The NIST report PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ M. CHRISTINE BOYER/PETER COOK/ broadening notions of how the field of architecture may be identifies issues relating to increased security and WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ protection that is needed now." SARAH HERDA/CRAIG KONYK/JAYNE MERKEL/ enriched. (For example, five out of the eight Emerging Voices The recommendations encourage the use of LISA NAFTOLIN/SIGNE NIELSEN / winners this year are based outside New York; two are land• HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ JOAN OCKMAN / new building technologies, such as fire-resistive KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ scape architects.) Throughout its history, too, the League has materials; real-time data transmission of build• TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR /MICHAEL SORKIN called attention to issues of great consequence to the shape ing systems for use by first responders; die stor• GENERAL INFORMATION: INF0ifARCHPAPER.COM age of data off-site or in a "black box" that can EDITORIAL: EDITOR®ARCHPAPER.COM of the city, fi-om the city's latest rezoning proposals to new survive a fire or building collapse; and mainte• DIARY: DIARYgiARCHPAPER.COM civic architecture. ADVERTISING: SALES(J>ARCHPAPER.COM nance of documents over the life of a building. SUBSCRIPTION: [email protected] Under Genevro and Rieselbach's leadership, the League's Black box technology systems are now available PLEASE NOTIFY US IF YOU ARE RECEIVING public programming has increased and deepened substantial• but according to Bill Sewell, senior vice presi• DUPLICATE COPIES. dent of DMIM Technology, "Most building THE VIEWS or OUR REVIEWERS AND COLUMNISTS 00 NOT ly, with original, topical exhibitions, publications, symposia, NECESSARILY RtfLECT THOSE OF THE STACF OR ADVISORS Of owners choose not to implement it, however, THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER. competitions, book signings, and more. It is hard to imagine VOLUME 03 ISSUE 12. JULY 13, 20OS based on cost." THC AKHITtCrS NEWSPAPER (ISSN ISS2-8081I IS PUILISHCO 20 TIMES architectural debate and discourse in New York City without Complying with NIST recommendations A YEAR. BY THl AlKHITtCrS NEWSPAPER, LLC, P,0, BOX 937, NEW YORK. NY K1013. PRESORT-STANOARD POSTAGE PAID IN NEW YORK. 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"These federal recommen• dations are now widely available, and reflect FULTON STREET PLAN CHUGS shaky financial footing of South The most noteworthy aspect ground, St. Vincent's medical the post-9/11 standard of care. Designers and ALONG continued from front page Street Seaport, which owns a of the plan is the extension of clinic, and an existing two-story Chinatown ("The View From number of sites slated for rede• Fulton Street from its current retail building with larger resi• owners ignore the findings at their own risk." The Bridge," /A/V10_6.08.2005). velopment in the Fulton Street dead-end at Church Street dential mixed-use buildings and The report is available at http://wtc.nist.gov. Also listed as part of the pro• plan, and the give and take through the WTC site and into an expanded, modernized St. BARBARA A. NAOEL. FAIA. IS PRINCIPAL OF gram—but canceled at the last between the state-controlled Battery Park City. The plan deli• Vincent's clinic. A final plan will BARBARA NADEL ARCHrTECT AND AUTHOR AND EDI• TOR OF BUILDING SECURfTy (MCGRAW-HILL, 2004). minute—was a presentation of LMDC and city politicians as rea• cately laces together several be released later this summer. the Fulton Street Revitalization sons for the delay. "The many small projects along Fulton The draft plan notes that pri• Plan, by Gensler and Robert stakeholders along the corridor Street to form a coherent vate developments will be CORRECTIONS A. M. Stern Architects. Of these make for a lengthy planning streetscape, taking into account encouraged through grants but three projects, the Fulton Street process," said Goldstein. larger-scale projects like the does not go into detail about In Honors (AN 10_6.08.2005), we omitted the MTA Transportation Hub by study is the only one not yet One indication that the plan how funding will be awarded. Prattstore, designed by Pratt Institute's Office Santiago Calatrava and the complete, despite the fact that might move forward is Governor Other support schemes include of Facilities Planning and Design, as one of the Fulton Street Station by it's been in the works for more and Mayor matching grants for facade 15 winners of the 2005 Building Brooklyn Award, Grimshaw & Partners. The plan than two years. A May 17'" Michael R. Bloomberg's May 25"' restoration and incentives to bestowed by the Brooklyn Chamber of calls for an increase in open presentation of the project to announcement of a plan to diversify the area's retail base, Commerce. The Prattstore won in the retail cat• space, encompassing a renovat• Community Board 1 (CBl) went distribute the remaining $800 which is currently underserved egory. We also overlooked Gisue and Mojgan ed 12,000-square-foot park on forward as planned, though as million in LMDC funds provid• by the nascent residential com• Hariri and Massimo and Leila Vignelli as winners the unused portion of Burling of our June press date, the ed through Community munity of Lower Manhattan. of the 2005 Academy Awards in Architecture. Slip adjacent to the South Street LMDC would not comment on Development Block Grants Construction of streetscape The award, given by the American Academy of Seaport and a reconfiguration the plan or provide reasons for (CDBG). Among the various improvements along Fulton is Arts and Letters, comes with a $7,500 cash of the 10,000-square-foot Delury its delay. Neither would it grant funding initiatives was a $38 slated for completion in 2008, prize. We regret the oversight. Square Park at Fulton and Gold permission to Gensler or Stem's million grant for Fulton Street and the LMDC hopes to see pri• streets. The plan also identifies office to discuss the design, corridor enhancements and vate developments and facade In the story "Clinton Cover Park Opens" (AN three redevelopment sites along which remains in draft form. funding for 200 affordable hous• restorations by 2012. No gov• 11_6.22.2005). Daniel Heuberger. pnncipal of Fulton between Gold and Water ing units in Lower Manhattan, ernmental approval is required. Dattner Architects, is incorrectly identified as Paul Goldstein, district man• streets, replacing a toddler play• mostly along Fulton. Michael Heuberger. We apologize for the error. ager of CBl, pointed to the GUNNAR HAND CO ro 3 o LLl

LU MORE ON COLUMBUSGATE •I You may have heard about the rather chummy e-mail exchanges between NYC O Landmarks Preservation Commission chair Robert Tierney and Laurie BecKelman, who represents the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), about the museum's plan to take over and unrecognizably alter 2 Columbus Circle. (She's a former Landmarks Commission chair herself.) Several snippets from the e- mails-like one in which Tierney tells Beckelman, "Let me know how I can help on the trouble ahead"-have been published in both and O New York magazine. They were obtained by the preservationist group Landmark West under the Freedom of Information Act and easily lead one to Ui O think that Tierney, who has refused to even call a hearing to designate (and toi LU thus preserve) the original Edward Durell Stone structure, is In cahoots with > MAD. Some might call that a conflict of interest. < And so, as a public service, we'd like to refer you to www.landmarkwest.org, where you can see transcripts of the lot. Some of our favorites? There's one In which Tierney forwards to Beckelman a letter from an opponent of the MAD plan (get It? MAD plan?) along with the note "Do you want to see some, all, or any of these letters?" "I would really appreciate seeing all of them," Beckelman replied. On May 8, 2003, before Community Board 5's final vote to approve the Designer: H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture sale of the building to the museum, Tierney wrote to Beckelman, "Good luck tonight." And "Call anytime...ln office now," he later offered. Cute, huh? As It H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture s newly opened Two River Theater in Red happens, we hear Landmark West, which has filed a lawsuit under these new Bank, New lersey, doesn't have a marquee. But according to architect Cieoffrey circumstances, has retained the legal services of Whitney North Seymour, Jr. lynch, it shouldn't need one, especially when the two-story glass lobby is lit up He's the former U.S. attorney who in 1971 tried to block publication of the and full of theatergoers. "It's open and transparent, so everyone can see what's Pentagon Papers. Welcome to the other side. going on inside. It can be a public room tor the town," said Lynch. THE NYU BRAND: DOWDY The first permanent home of the Two River Theater Cx)mpany, which will cele• brate its tenth anniversary season beginning in September, the 45,()00-square- New York University may finally be discovering what everyone else has known foot building is split into three distinct volumes, in part to work within the scale forever: Its facilities are pretty ugly. So could the Institution, which continues to of Red Bank's downtown, according to the architects. Two brick-clad, rectilinear produce more dogs than a breeding kennel, actually be building something that doesn't, as one architect recently put it, "look like an abortion"? Kinda sorta. We volumes frame the lobby and its dramatic curving roof. DiagonaJ roof supports hear the university's Stern School of Business is planning a bit of a makeover. and horizontal fritting along the glass add more patterning and keep the facade "They realized that In order to remain competitive among business schools, lively. "We wanted it to be whimsical and playful,"said Lynch, "but not too much." they needed to pay attention to their physical Image [no kidding!]," says one The brick volumes are also patterned with pre-aist stone bars, which Lynch source, referring to Stern's homely complex of buildings on West Fourth Street, described as a response to the lintels and cornices on the surrounding industrial the latest of which was completed in only 1993. Nevertheless, only baby buildings. Inside, the auditorium holds 350 seats around a thrust stage, which steps are being taken for what reguires a giant leap: The proposed renovations, means that no seal is further than 36 feet from the .stage. A rehearsal room can being designed by Margaret Helfand of Helfand Architecture, would largely be also act as a secondary studio theater when needed, and can hold 99 .seats. limited to a new entrance and lobbies, lounges, and other interior public spaces. But, hey, it's a start. A MEMORIAL TEAM SPIN-OUT When it comes to the Ground Zero memorial, is definitely in the driver's seat. Arad, who designed Its competition-winning scheme, recently won a MINI Cooper at the AIA convention In Las Vegas. But when we heard rumors that landscape architect Peter Walker, who has also been brought into the memorial project, was claiming the car for himself, we braced for yet another power struggle. However, "Not true," Arad told us, joking that Walker has so far resisted steering the wheel from the passenger's seat.

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PRIVATE DOMAIN continued from front page Kelo, 7 landowners filed suit against the the City of New London said, "Fifty- six per• city in 2000, arguing that their land was cent of our [clty'sl land Is exempt from not being taken for a justifiable public use, taxes, we have an 80 percent commercial as is required in the Constitution's 5"' vacancy rate, and an unemployment rate Amendment since profits would go to a that Is double the state average." According private developer The plaintiffs also argued to the project's supporters, the develop• that the development could have proceed• ment, which Includes a hotel, 80 residen• ed on the 65 acres of public land without tial units, 680,000 square feet of office destroying their homes. space, a Coast Guard museum, and a The Supreme Court's continued on page 6 promenade along the Thames River, will generate over 1,300 new jobs and $5 million Corcooih JeiJkson's conceptual plan for in annual tax revenue. Corcoran Jennison Fort TrumbujK^^a/^ has a long-term lease on the land from the city, and will receive substantial tax breaks and subsidies for building the project.

In 2000, New London approved the $180 million development plan designed by Diversified Technology Consultants with William Rawn Associates, and granted the rights to clear the land to the New London Development Corporation, a nonprofit community organization funded by the city. At that time, 115 homes and 20 businesses occupied 25 acres of the 90-acre site. An abandoned Navy research facility occupied the remaining acreage.

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WORLD'S 100 MOST ENDANGERED SITES continued from front page publicity generated from the watch list. About 75 percent of the sites listed since the have been preserved or are now out of danger, according to the WMF. "Twentieth-century design has always been included on the list," according to John Stubbs, WMF vice president,"but an increas• 4i ing number of nominations, which reflects a growing interest in the preservation of mod• ern buildings, has allowed our review panel to Asmara historic city pick from a wider range of periods, designers, and locations." Nina Rappaport of DOCO- money toward training young architects and MOMO, which works with WMF and has archaeologists in Iraq to assess sites that nominated a number of sites, said, "WMF WMF workers cannot reach. (The organiza• has been very supportive. They're jumping tion deemed the entire country too danger• on the modern preservation bandwagon." ous to work in after the start of the war.) MOMA UNVEILS TWO NEW ADDITIONS TO ITS ARCHITECTURE AND This year's list also had a political twist: It Perhaps the most contentious item on the DESIGN COLLECTION included all of Iraq's cultural heritage sites, list is 2 Columbus Circle, whose planned ren• which cover a vast percentage of the war- ovation was issued a work permit on June 29. torn country. Faisal Amin al Istrabadi, Iraq's In response to questions about WMF's stance deputy ambassador to the United Nations, on the debate, Stubbs said, "We're not saying Acquired Taste spoke at the WMF's June press conference, the building should or shouldn't be saved. emphasizing the sorry condition of the coun• Rather, we're supporting the position that try's historic sites, caused by war-related the building deserves its day in court—it The 24 pieces featured in the 's New Work/New Acquisitions looting, artillery fire, and bombing. Bumham deserves to be heard by the Landmarks (on view through August 22) are just a small selection of the museum's recent claimed that the WMF plans to channel more Commission." DEBORAH GROSSBERG acquisitions, but they represent some of the most contemporary work in the perma• nent collection. The Department of Architecture and Design has two pieces in the WMF WATCH LIST 2006 show, the Corallo Chair (2003) by Fernando and Humberlo Campana, and United INDIA PERU Architects' (UA) Plexiglas model for the World Trade Center master-planning AFGHANISTAN Haji Piyada Mosque Dalhousie Square Cajamarquilla competition (2002). The Corallo Chair was donated by |o Carole and Ronald Lauder, Dhangkar Gompa Presbitero Maestro Cemetery ANTARCTICA Guru Lhakhang and Sumda Quinta Heeren while the UA model was purchased through the museum's Fund for the 2 V Century, Sir Ernest Shackletons Chung Temples Revash Funerary Complex Expedition Hut which is dedicated to the acquisition of works no more than a few years old. 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As if the rebuilding at Ground trators decided to follow HUD's ed in the PATH station, called Zero wasn't complicated open bid process to select an StoryBooth. which opened on Perched above a ravine, Morten's project went enough, on June 16 Governor architect for the project. An July 12. Like the booth that vertical to reduce its footprint in a public park. George E. Pataki held a press RFQ for the project was pub• StoryCorps opened at Grand conference to announce two lished in Ocu/us and three Central Terminal in October Juan Ignacio Vidarte, director of the new 9/11 memorials at the other publications, according to 2003. the project serves as a Guggenheim Bilbao, is overseeing the fea• , both Sally Yerkovich, president of recording station for those UPPING sibility study. funded by the LMDC and both the Tribute Center The associ• who want to share their per• Norten noted that Bilbao and Guadalajara intended to be temporary. ation received ten proposals sonal stories. The booth at the are both second-tier cities that lost their eco• Early in 2004, the SeptemtDer and selected New York-based PATH station is available only THE ANTE nomic vocation and are seeking new identi• 11"' Widows and Victims BKSK Architects for the job. to those directly affected by ties. And Guadalajara could use an image-lift. Families' Association founded Although design details have the events of 9/11. however. A 180-meter glass, steel, and concrete tower In the last decade, its Catholic cardinal was the private Tnbute Center, not yet been worked out. Participants are able to take planned for Guadalajara could be the first murdered by drug dealers and a gas explo• which is meant to be a stand-in project architect Joan Krevlin home CDs of their own Guggenheim Museum in Latin America, sion destroyed a huge swath of buildings. An for the permanent memorial explained that the center will recordings, which will also be and the sixth in an expanding Guggenheim ex-Guggenheim staffer shrugged, "That's at Ground Zero, slated for house one room of rotating archived in the American orbit. The highrise, by Enrique Norton of Mexico," yet art insurers may be less blase. completion in 2009. Last win• shows and three rooms of Folklife Center at the Library TEN Arquitectos, edged out projects by Guadalajara was not the Guggenheim's ter, the LMDC gave the group permanent exhibitions. The of Congress. The LMDC pro• Jean Nouvel of Ateliers Jean Nouvel and initial choice for its first Latin American $3 million for exhibition devel• entrance hall will contain vided $500,000. $350,000 of Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of home. Nouvel's design for a Guggenheim opment and the renovation of information about the events which is for the construction Asymptote, neither of which called for sky• in Rio de Janeiro died last year, and sites in Its 6.000-square-foot street- of 9/11 and the rebuilding of the booth, designed by scrapers. Norten, who has offices in Mexico Sao Paulo were considered earlier. Krens level space at 120 Liberty progress, and interior gallenes architects Enc Liftin of Mesh City and New York, described the structure, and other Rio supporters said Rio's mayor, Street. The center is required will show imagery, narratives, Architectures and Michael sited at the edge of a deep ravine called La Cesar Maia, never assembled the political to match the funding through and artifacts from those Shuman of MASdesign. Barranca de Oblatos, as "several buildings, will needed to advance the project beyond private grants in the next five touched by 9/11—survivors, little museums, packed one on top of the Both the StoryCorps booth the design stage. Opponents saw the proj• years (the duration of its lease). victims' family members, first other It creates an interesting visual sil• and the Tribute Center may ect as an overpriced trophy that diverted Since the center's $3 to 4 mil• responders, and residents of houette, a vertical stacking of internal and outlast their roles as interim funds from more pressing needs. lion renovation budget was external spaces." Lower Manhattan. "We want memorials. The booth was The quest for a Guggenheim in Brazil funded in part from the LMDC's to put a human face on what constructed to be disassem• If built, the Guggenheim would become coincided with the tour of Brazil: Body and Community Development happened," said Yerkovich. bled and moved outdoors, Guadalajara's tallest building. "It's like an Soul, an exhibition of 350 objects spanning Block Grants from the U.S. The Tribute Center will col• and the Tribute Center plans open monument standing on its own," said centuries of Brazilian culture. The show went Department of Housing and laborate with StoryCorps, the to continue its programming Norten. "On one hand it serves as a marker to the New York and Bilbao Guggenheims, Urban Development (HUD), nonprofit responsible for the after the memorial is com• or a lighthouse. On the other hand, it's in a as did 7/76 AzfecEmp/re, which lined the the Tribute Center's adminis• other interim memorial locat• plete. DO public park which the city is giving to the New York museum's ramp last winter and is Guggenheim, so we thought it was impor• now in Bilbao. tant to preserve all of that site for the pub• Krens stressed that Guadalajara was still a lic." The design deliberately reduced the plan rather than a reality. "The Guggenheim AIA Staten Island presented the 2005 Architectural Design Awards at a cer• building's footprint, and Norten found him• is very interested in a position in Latin emony on May 25. Honor awards went to an academic building at St. self "going higher and higher." o America," said Krens. "[The Guadalajara John's University by Perkins Eastman Architects and Aaron B. Schwarz; Project details are vague since the $2 mil• project] is not motivated by the desire to and the Mill Pond restoration by A. Dean Cavalarro of the NYC Department o lion Guggenheim feasibility study commis• have as many Guggenheims as we can, but of Environmental Protection (DEP). Merit awards went to the Greenbelt sioned by the project's Guadalajara boosters by the desire to access the art and culture of I Nature Center by Medhat Salam and Donato Gialcalone; the restoration of won't finish until August. Norten offered few an important region looking forward." the Latourette House by Page Ayres Cowley; and the Blue Heron specifics on materials or gallery spaces, but DAVID D'ARCY Watershed by Cavalarro. A citation went to FasTracKids by Salvadeo noted that natural light would illuminate Associates Architects and David L. Businelli. Additionally, Masayuki Sono most of them. The $250 million projected and Lapshan Fong received the Award for Design Achievement for their budget could evolve with fundraising, design of the Staten Island 9/11 memorial. . according to a Guggenheim spokesman. So far, the closest thing to a modern art The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced recipi• museum in Guadalajara is the Instltuto ents of its 2005 awards in late May: Jane Silverstein Ries (ASLA Medal); Cultural Cabanas, which is decorated with Laurie Clin (ASLA Design Medal); Robert S. "Doc" Reich (Jot D. Carpenter murals by Jose Clemente Orozco, but it Teaching Medal); Stephen D. Livingston (LaGasse Medal in the Landscape has no collection of its own. For the Architecture Category); Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (LaGasse Medal in the Guggenheim, Norten envisioned a muse• Non-Landscape Architecture Category);the Regional Plan Association um for contemporary and Latin American (ASLA Medal of Excellence); Charles Eliot Beveridge and Wangari Maathai art that would provide a destination in itself. (Olmsted Medal); and SWA Group (Landscape Architecture Firm Award). "[It) would be a beacon for people all over the world, as the Bilbao's museum has done," said Norten. Bilbao at 180 meters? The Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art received a $200,000 grant Frank Gehry, architect of the Guggenheim from Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative to continue its Architecture + Bilbao, sat on the seven-man jury; so did Design series with two major projects by architects Ben van Berkel and Guggenheim director, Thomas Krens, who Caroline Bos of UN Studio, and a collaborative work by architect Peter is said to have favored Norten's design. Eisenman and landscape architect Laurie Olin of the Olin Partnership. CO so 3 O LJJ

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FAULTY TOWER continued from front page ing NYPD demanded, and has smaller his THINK team—namely, that the height of frontage toward Vesey Street and the WTC observation platforms on the team's twin Memorial. When Childs produced the first towers matched the height of the former Freedom Tower design, the memorial WTC towers and that beams of light would design had not yet been selected. Childs shoot from their rooftops at night. And at noted that the redesign provided an oppor• the press conference for the unveiling itself, tunity to improve the tower's relationship to complimented Childs while Michael Arad's Reflecting Absence. Arad averring the preeminence of his own ideas commented that the redesign "allows the in the Freedom Tower's new iteration: the memorial [to have] its own, clear identity." preservation of a superfluous antenna that Childs pushed the symmetry of the square brings the structure's overall height to 1,776 base to another dimension: The base rises feet; siting that adheres more closely to his 200 feet to create a perfect cube, which will master plan; and a profile that's "sleek, crys• be draped with reflective panels of titanium talline, elegant," he said, "reasserting the or steel that will conceal blast-resistant con• ^^^^ BIIJ optimism of the master plan." crete walls. Though the fortified base might UBtBTY STREET " The question is, why is everyone rushing satisfy the NYPD, it leaves the street with The Freedom Tower's (1) smaller base pulls it to take credit for a design that's ultimately forbidding sheer walls, relieved intermittent• back from West Street and the Performing not as special as its site and circumstance? ly with slots that will allow slivers of natural Arts Center (2). Also, it now has less frontage toward Fulton Street and the WTC memorial (5). (Yale graduate Thomas Shine perhas start• light to stream into the 80-foot-tall lobby. Also indicated above are the Cultural Center Because of the base's reduced size, the ed the trend with his charge that the first (3) and WTC Transportation Hub (4). Freedom Tower was a rip-off of his student architects had to increase the number of project.) The new design is unremarkable— floors in the building from 60 to 69 to fulfill The project will inevitably undergo predictably so, given the litany of things the unchanged requirement for 2.6 million rounds of fine-tuning and revisions. Childs required of it: It had to be symbolic, big, square feet of office space. Finding them• already mentioned the possibility of mov• li accessible to the public, sited according to selves close to the heights of the original able panels for the base, to better collect and a tight master plan, and of course, safe. And Twin Towers, the architects decided to mark reflect the sun's rays, advancing his concep• safe it is, in every sense of the word. them by topping off the Freedom Tower at tion of it as a dynamic "mural of light" and, It's easy to sympathize with Childs and his 1,362 feet and the rooftop glass parapet at perhaps, lessening its fortresslike demeanor. team at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, who 1,368. The architects abandoned the torque, Furthermore, the antenna design is not yet were forced to whip up a new skyscraper in chamfering the building's corners instead to detailed though it has the potential to be a six weeks, after the New York Police give it the appearance, from some angles, of feat of structural and lighting engineering. Department (NYPD) expressed concerns a tapering form. The building's central core, As Childs refines his design, developer over the building's security. Childs insists that a tough column of concrete containing ele• continues his struggle with the experience has been positive and that vators, stairwells, and other safety systems, the Port Authority about infrastructure he prefers the second design to the first. also tapers as the building rises. issues. Meanwhile, the LMDC is working out The most significant revision is the tower's The building's symmetry is completed the programming and viability of its cultural base. The old parallelogram-shaped base, with an antenna that's planted square on the facilities. The WTC site might seem to be which was 260 feet on its long sides, has roof, held in place by a tension ring. At 1,776 shaping up, but as New York Post real estate been reduced to a square that's roughly 200 feet high, the Freedom Tower will be the reporter Steve Cuozzo observed, unless by 200 feet—the dimensions of the original tallest structure in the world. With its elon• steel is rising on site by the time Governor Twin Towers' footprints. The smaller base gated antenna, the building resembles the George Pataki's term (widely assumed to be means that the building is set back further Empire State Building, a reference Childs is his last) is up in January 2007, all this effort from West Street, which the car-bomb-fear• happy to acknowledge. will have been for naught, CATHY LANC HO

SCI-ARC CAN'T BUY PRIVATE DOMAIN continued from page 3 5 LANDMARKS IN majority opinion, written by Justice John 4 BOROUGHS HOME Paul Stevens, argued that local govern• In June, five buildings in four boroughs On June 21, the Southern California ments should be allowed to determine gained landmark status: the Smith. Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) lost what constitutes public use. The dissent• < Gray & Company Building at 103 its battle to buy the quarter-mile-long ing opinion, written by Justice Sandra LUI in Williamsburg; the freight depot in downtown Los Angeles Day O'Connor, who announced her Windermere apartments at 400-406 where it has been housed for the past retirement on July 1, claimed, "Under West ; the Robert and five years. The Los Angeles County the banner of economic development, Anne Dickey House at 67 Greenwich Superior Court's ruling clears the way all private property is now vulnerable to Street; the Elmhurst Branch of the for LA developer Richard Meruelo to being taken and transferred to another Jamaica Savings Bank at 89-01 buy the building and an adjacent 2.5- private owner, so long as it might be Queens Boulevard; and the John De acre property. The judge ruled that upgraded." Groot House at 1674 Richmond the school had failed to hold a board States or cities may still rule against the Terrace in Staten Island. meeting to approve the purchase, and use of eminent domain for private devel• hadn't paid the required $500,000 opment. There are six states—Kansas, deposit. SCI-Arc retains a long-term Maryland, Minnesota, New York, North CURATOR SHUFFLE lease on the depot. Meruelo said he Dakota, and now Connecticut—which The San Francisco Museum of Modern hopes to work with the school on his explicitly allow the use of eminent domain Art's architecture and design curator development plans for the site. for economic development, private or Joseph Rosa last month accepted the otherwise. Many other states, such as equivalent post at the Art Institute of California, allow eminent domain to be Chicago, taking over the position cre• GSA LOSES used for economic development, but with ated by John Zukowsky in 1978 and COMMISSIONER the caveat that all cleared areas must first held by him until July 2004. Meanwhile, On June 28, R Joseph Moravec be designated blighted. Since New York Zukowsky began his new job as chief announced his departure from his post already allows land seizures for private curator at the Intrepid Sea, Air & as commissioner of the Public development, the ruling will not change Buildings Service of the General Space Museum last month. Rosa will state laws. start his new job on September 15; his Services Administration's (GSA). A 100 successor has not been named. strong supporter of the Design New London now plans to raze the watt RESOLUTE Also last month, the New Museum Excellence Program, Moravec was remaining homes and undergo an $18 network million environmental cleanup effort, a of Contemporary Art announced that appointed commissioner in June 2001. road network redesign, and utility www.100wan.net Richard Flood will begin as its new With Ed Feiner's departure from his upgrades to prepare for the massive chief curator in September. Flood position as chief architect in January, NEW YORK • SAN FRANCISCO • SEATTLE redevelopment. Kelo intends to apply for served as chief curator at the Walker the GSA is now operating without two T (888] 477-9288 F [8881 882-9281 a rehearing at the Supreme Court, OH Art Center for 11 years. major leaders. Some choices are just smarter than others.

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The fight over the city's attempt to build who need to be bribed to stay in town to a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan trickle-down on the public. Of course, it is a was never about football (other than the hopeless, evil ploy, another contribution to political kind) or, for that matter, the the yawning income gap, welfare for pluto• Olympics: It was over where to put the sta• crats who, it is hoped, will throw the rest of TEN dium and who should pay for it. The West us a crumb or two. Side project has now gone down in flames In fact, study after study has demonstrat• because the administration chose one of ed the folly of this approach. Virtually none the worst places available and then asked of these subsidies is ever recouped and such us all to pay, largely (and transparently) subventions for the powerful always rob in order to jack up real estate prices in the the poor—^those at the bottom of the list of BETTER area for the usual cohort of salivating municipal priorities, for whom housing, developers. Not only did construction education, transportation, and healthcare depend on building a platform—an artifi• are of somewhat greater importance than cial ground—over an active rail yard, a football. Moreover, the only good jobs gen• proposition that would have added as erated by these projects are in construction much as a billion dollars to the cost of the (permanent jobs tend to be few in number, PLACES project, access to the site is awful. Bringing seasonal, and low-paying) but these would the number seven subway from Port also be provided through building apart• Authority would have cost additional bil• ments, clinics, or subways. Indeed, these lions. Automobile access from the West projects may be the least efficient expendi• Side Highway or from the avenues would ture of public funds imaginable and one of have been nightmarish. Structured parking the highest hypocrisies of the self-proclaimed FOR A would have been expensive and could /a/ssez-fa/re thieves who run the country. never have allowed the tail-gating so Setting aside the fiscal foolishness of beloved by fans. public support for this private enterprise, The enormous object also sought to the city's initial proposal also relied on a extend the blocks-long barrier to the water• distorted view of the nature of large sports front created by the Javits Convention facilities and their capacity to add amenity FOOTBALL Center; their combined lump would have to cities. A football stadium is not a neigh• obliterated relations to the Hudson River borhood-friendly object but an industrial from the island and permanently disfig• one and the criteria for siting such huge ured the scale of the West Side. In choosing constructions resemble those for choosing to move the site for the Olympic proposal a spot for a factory or power station (the to Queens as part of a new Shea Stadium, proportions of which are perfectly repro• STADIUM the city has been forced to settle on a site duced in the stadium design proposed for that makes sense for such a project. Indeed, the Jets). Receptacles for enormous num• Flushing is one of the best places in the bers of people briefly gathered, stadia are city for a stadium from the perspectives of assembly lines for intermittently pumping automobile and mass transit access, of them in, pumping them full of beer, and THE NETS, THE JETS. THE NETS. THE potential synergies with surrounding ath• pumping them out. YANKS-NEW STADIA ALL AROUND! letic and public facilities, and of the mini• Because of this industrial character, huge mal effort required to prepare the site for stadia have little to offer directly to viable BUT WHERE TO PUT THEM? ARCHITECT AND construction. neighborhoods, although their energy The wave of projected stadium-building does have the potential to benefit places URBANIST MICHAEL SORKIN SURVEYED THE in New York—for the Mets in Queens, the that cannot be used otherwise, are derelict, Yankees in the Bronx, the Nets in Brooklyn, or lack a community in place to suffer any FIVE BOROUGHS FOR SITES TO CONSIDER, as well as forthe Olympic bid—is a symp• adverse impacts. Likewise, a stadium can tom of a larger phenomenon. Sports stadia add elan, jobs, and secondary commerce have come to be represented not just as pre• to neighborhoods that are struggling for miere emblems of American civic culture economic help (as a number of European (all hail the steroid-bloated millionaires at stadiums have done). On the Far West play!) but as drivers of urban economic Side—a neighborhood at the point of revitalization. Here, they join that other booming, as recently reported in The New instant panacea, gambling casinos, as York Times, football or no—^the stadium leading markers of the decline of public would clearly have been a liability, reinforc• planning as the development paradigm ing the large-scale developer-driven urban- shifts decisively to so-called public-private ism favored by the administration and partnerships. What this means in practice thwarting the more intimate grain that viable is that private business—including such fat• neighborhoods demand and deserve. ted enterprises as sports teams, gambling Although Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, cartels, and office developers—are given Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff, and the giant public subsidies as an inducement rest of the anything-for-the-Olympics either to come to or to remain in cities. crowd insistently represented the Far West Public benefit from such investments is Side as the only viable possibility (until it allegedly returned in the form of jobs, was voted down), at least ten other sites in taxes, or other more elusive outcomes of the city would be far more advantageous "development." and suitable for such an infusion of energy In New York, this model has become the and cash, assuming that any public contri• LEGEND virtual default and every major project pro• bution for the greater good can be more posed by the Bloomberg Administration— persuasively argued. One of these is 10 MINUTE WALK from Greenpointto Ground Zero—follows Flushing and it may attract the Olympics 5 MINUTE WALK this model. Indeed, large-scale planning yet. The odds, however, seem long for has shifted from the Department of City 2012, which suggests that there is time to consider additional sites for 2016, forthe IB SUBWAY Planning—which has been reduced to an Jets, the Giants, and for the big public gath• TRAIN urban design role—to the office of the deputy mayor for economic development, erings that are important to our collective FERRY ROUTE whence the big "visions" come. These, life. Here are ten worth thinking about. GAME DAY SHUTTLE predictably, tend to be calculated to MICHAEL SORKIN IS AN ARCHITECT, CRITIC, AND • FERRY STOP engorge the Ratners, Silversteins, and DIRECTOR OF THE URBAN DESIGN PROGRAM AT O PARKING Steinbrenners of the city, civic paragons CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK. a TRAIN STATION LU Qs O 3

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A huge site adjacent to the Bruckner Expressway (from which cars could Although this site has obvious access issues, they are not materially Perhaps the most self-evident site of them all. this location next to the be directed to parking without hitting the city grid), astride the Amtraic worse than those on the West Side and are more cheaply solved. Like new Shea Stadium would plug into a tested area at the convergence of line, close to the water, and easily sen/ed by both subways and Metro- a number of potential locations, this one could be made to work by four freeways (perhaps the best served spot in the city for cars) and to North, seems to be all plusses. Not simply would construction be mini• improved water access, by special shuttles from surrounding subways the LIRR and subway stations already on site. Adding ferry sen/ice would mally disruptive, it would provide a strong symtx)l for neightxirtioods that on game day. and tjy direct access to parking from the BQE The site benefit both the athletic complex as well as the burgeoning neighbor• are among the city's poorest. The easy relationship with the athletic facil• commands marvelous views of the Manhattan skyline and the industrial hoods of Flushing and Corona. Which are now isolated from each other ities on Randall's Island would also be a positive should the city win the character of the stadium would blend well with that of the Navy Yard. The convergence of stadium building, buoyant neighborhood growth, Olympics. A second potential site in the same vicinity is the nearby inter- the reclamation of the Flushing River, and the relocation of the Willets 5. SUNSET PARK/BUSH TERMINAL, BROOKLYN modai railyard opposite Manhattan. Point automobile shops (perhaps within the site, perhaps within the sta• dium) make this a slam-dunk (if you'll forgive the metaphor). And, near• 2. YANKEE STADIUM/BRONX TERMINAL MARKET The largely derelict waterfront between the Bush Terminal and the har• by LaGuardia would again make sense of a team called the "Jets." bor. IS an extremely tasty possibility. This is one of the last living industri• If Yankee Stadium is to be replaced on a nearby site while the house al areas in the city—^with over 33.000 )Obs—and it could profit from what, 8. CONEY ISLAND, BROOKLYN that Ruth built continues to host games, it is clear that the neighbor• in other circumstances, are negatives. The stadium's own industrial char• hood has room for two stadia. Transportation is excellent, an infra• acter IS compatible with existing uses which also support a population of The revival of Coney Island has been announced for years but proceeds structure of bars and other support sites is profuse, and the prospect potential sports fans. Moreover, a stadium could help save Sunset Park at a snail's pace. Some hopeful signs; Keyspan Park, a minor league of the redevelopment of the Terminal Market and the Harlem River from the likely fate of Greenpoint under the city's just announced re-zon- basetjall stadium, is enjoying great success; the city has just completed waterfront would add greatly to the area's atmosphere. A football sta• ing plans. Their implementation threatens existing neighborhood charac• a massive renovation of the Stilwell Avenue subway station; and use of dium could also help anchor the revival of the central Bronx from the ter both by their up-market, over-scaled ambitions for the waterfront as the beach is on the nse. Moreover. Coney Island is a virtual synonym for Concourse to the Hub. In addition, the relationship between new well as through a mixed-use policy that is likely to see remaining industry urban recreation and locating the Stadium adjacent to Keyspan Park. baseball and football stadiums would make the neighborhood one of displaced by gentrification. The Sunset Stadium—combined with a Astroland. and the beach would take it to the next level of attraction, lur• the premiere sports sites on the planet. planned park, nearby cruise ship terminal, recycling plant, and automo• ing other sports, entertainment, and related uses. The nearby Belt bile port—could create unique synergies. Parkway and ample opportunities for water transport round out a very 3. SUNNYSIDE YARDS, QUEENS pretty picture. And what more logical neighbor for Nathan's! 6. HUNTERS POINT, QUEENS A superb place for a stadium! As the city presses ahead with plans to 9. FRESH KILLS, STATEN ISLAND create a fourth commercial core around Queens Plaza (to |0in midtown Assuming that New York is not the winner of the 2012 Olympics, the and downtown Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn), a stadium could site of the proposed Olympic Village at the mouth of Newtown Creek The closing of the municipal dump at Fresh Kills has been followed by a form a powerful centerpiece, especially if it accreted a series of addi• would be excellent. This generously scaled, unbuilt area would allow a proposal for a park that takes a delicate, naturalizing view of our garbage tional uses, such as housing and big-box retail. Transportation is excel• stadium surrounded by housing and parks and could become a driver in Himalaya. But this landscape of industrial and residential waste is also lent and IS projected to improve with the construction of a multi-modal the rehabilitation and remediation of the fetid Newtown Creek. Access ideal for a use that simply caps a portion of the site for stadium building is excellent, including all rail modes, water movement, and a possible station under the Queens Boulevard Viaduct. And with modest new and parking. There are obvious accessibility challenges but both the direct link to the LIE and BQE. The site also enjoys the kind of elastic construction, cars could be routed to parking directly from the LIE. Staten Island and West Shore Expressways skirt the site, Arthur Kill pro• relationship to its surroundings that would allow such a huge facility to parking that could also serve commuters into Manhattan. To be sure, vides passage for water transit, a disused rail line leads to the St. George be both near enough for neighborhood access and far enough to be additional costs would result from the need to build the stadium above Ferry Terminal, and a link to the Perth Amboy/Elizabeth branch of the buffered against the risk of overwhelming what remains a relatively fine- the railyards but the payback in convenience and non-disruption of New Jersey Transit line on the opposite shore is easily imagined. So too textured community. neighborhood life would more than compensate IS a stadium that sits within and utilizes our municipal mountains LU O a: ^ 3

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5. SUNSET PARK / BUSH TERMINAL 10. GOVERNORS ISLAND 6. HUNTERS PORT Simultaneously unlikely and perfect, Governors Island currently languishes In indecision, awaiting its big idea. Perhaps it can accommodate two. The Island itself embodies two conditions; the original "natural" island as it 7. FLUSHING / WILLETS POINT existed until the beginning of the 20'" century and its large southern extension, built from fill excavated during the construction of the IRT. By re-dividing the island into northern and southern islands, the historic northern 8. CONEY ISLAND half could become an extension of the space-challenged United Nations, the perfect site for the pursuits of 9. FRESH KILLS peace. Appropriately isolated, the southern island would be a glorious and secure site for mass gatherings and big games The challenge of getting there could also be turned to advantage. Unless a pedestrian bridge or 10. GOVERNORS ISLAND tramway were built from Red Hook (not a completely illogical pair of possibilities), all access would be from the water But this is less daunting than it otherwise seems. To begin. Governors Island is very close to both Manhattan—with its existing infrastructure of ferry terminals—and Brooklyn with its capacity to lead cars from the Battery Tunnel and the BOE or Gowanus Expressway directly to shore-side parking, tvloreover, given that WEST SIDE football IS played on Sundays—when service on the huge Staten Island ferries is reduced—a dedicated boat or two making round trips from South Ferry could efficiently deliver very large numbers of people to the island in 10 MINUTE WALK minutes Finally the proximity of the stadium to the Statue of Liberty raises the prospect of a view of that great symbol through the uprights of another, from the new Freedom Bowl, America's stadium INDICATES SPECIAL SITE WORK IS REQUIRED (E.G. HAIL PLATFORM)

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spaces for visiting shows, com• scholarship has led to another missioned installations, and per• brilliant, beautifully designed WHAT'S ART GOT formances. These institutions have book. Art and the Power of GRAPHIC been especially bold in their archi• Placement. In it, she argues that tectural commissions. Witness the the way we respond to art depends TO DO WITH IT? fragmented geometries of Zaha largely on its presentation, and the Hadid s Rosenthal Center for way we think about art determines MATERIAL Contemporary Art in Cincinnati our methods of display. In the New Museums and the fantastical biomorphism Renaissance, paintings, sculptures, Raul A. Barreneche (Phaidon), $69.95 2x4: Design Series 3 of Peter Cook and Colin Foumier's and other precious objects were San Francisco Museum of Modern Art New Museums: Contemporary Museum Architecture Around the World Kunsthaus Graz in Austria. placed in small rooms in edifying 151 3rd Street. San Francisco Mimi Zeiger (Universe), $29.95 Equally noteworthy is the arrangements that evoked a Through November 27 "museumification" of a plethora microcosm of the world, with the Art and the Power of Placement of subjects. Among them, a viewer at its center. By the 18th Victoria Newhouse (Monacelli Press), $50.00 museum dedicated to volcanoes century, art was treated as mere by Hans Hollein in the Auvergne, decoration. At the earliest salons France, and a paper art mu.seum (equivalent to today's art fairs), Scrra's Torqued Ellipses (1996-99), on view in by Shigeru Ban in Shizuoka, Japan. paintings were stacked on the nheim Bilbao in 1999. Ban also designed the Nomadic walls, floor to ceiling, and often Museum, recently installed at the poorly lit. In England, Turner and Chelsea Piers in Manhattan, a Gainsborough rebelled against temporary arrangement of ship• the system, and so too David, and ping containers designed to house later Courbet and Manet in a traveling photography show. France. These artists were the first How well these buildings to demand control over the way succeed in achieving their mis• their work was presented. By the sions is not addressed in either late 19"" century, neo-impression- The New York-based graphic design firm book. Budgetary issues obviously ists were demanding galleries dis• 2x4 has quietly put its stamp on many of made it impossible for the writ• play their works on achromatic the design icons of the past ten years. ers to accomplish this kind of an walls in rooms devoid of decora• With clients including Vitra, Knoll, ANY nvestigation. Yet without such a tion. Such displays were the fore• magazine, and the Office for Metropolitan discussion, they are mere picture runners of the white cube galleries Architecture (OMA), the firm, which is books; Interestingly, a number of that would define the modern led by partners Michael Rock, Susan "Museum.s more than any other magic, architects have been given the museums featured were pho• art mu.seum. Sellers, and Georgianna Stout, has been building type have become the the opportunity to flourish. Over tographed before any art or arti• One of the book's most intrigu• as Influential as Bruce Mau, albeit with architectural barometers of our the past decade, a myriad of facts were displayed. ing chapters focuses on the paint• less star designer self-promotion. The age," writes Raul Barreneche in exceptional structures have arisen. To understand what makes a ings of Jackson Pollock. The barn San Francisco Museum of Modern Art the introduction to New Museums. These are handsomely document• museum work today and why, in which he worked on his "action (SFMoMA) is presenting a brisk survey In truth, they have become some• ed in Barreneche's coffee-table Victoria Newhouse's seminal paintings" was small, and it was of the firm's multifaceted contribution to thing of an architectural fetish. hardcover and in a similiarly sized study Towards a New Museum in similarly intimate settings that design culture in an exhibition that's on Ever since the staggering success softcover book by Mimi Ziegler, (Monacelli Press, 1998) remains he intended his work to be shown. view through November. of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim also imaginatively titled. New unmatched. The wife of media Newhouse contends the over- For Vitra, 2x4 took images of the com• Bilbao, civic leaders and museum Museums. Both detail the ways the mogul Si Newhouse, this distin• scaled spaces typical of contem• pany's classic chairs and transformed directors everywhere have become museum as a typology is evolving guished architectural historian porary art museums diminish them into kaleidoscopic flowers that converts to the belief that singu• to address a budding global cul• had the means to visit the muse• Pollock's gestural exuberance. It's burst and twirl over a stark white field. lar architecture can revitalize a ture, an ever-widening audience, ums featured and to talk in depth an insight too late for Yoshio This approach embodies the qualities of lagging institution, attract hordes and a proliferating variety of art to their architects and even the Taniguchi. But let other architects the firm's best work: purposeful, witty, of new visitors, and transform a forms. One trend is the growing artists whose work is exhibited. with museum ambitions take note. and unafraid of ornamentation that moribund urban economy and number of non-collecting insti• Her writing radiates authority. MARISA BARTOLUCCI IS A NEW enriches the meanings of often austere culture. To accomplish such tutions that serve as exhibition Now Newhouse's globetrotting YORK-BASED WRITER. material. At OMA's McCormick Tribune Campus Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a gigantic pixilated bust of construction sites, akin to the crude plat• manors were built recently in Ladue, a sub• Mies greets students, who then enter Rubble Out, form that sprouted almost overnight next to urb of St. Louis. Rakowitz's mock-sentimen• the center via sliding doors through the the World Trade Center site. tal renderings of the houses (which are now master's mouth. This is both a tribute to At Lombard-Freid, the enclosure sur• for sale) lined the gallery walls. It seems that and a gentle mockery of 's Rubble In rounded an inflatable effigy of the notorious you just can't keep bad design down. sacred cows. Less successful is the firm's Pruitt-lgoe, the massive housing project Rakowitz is a graduate of the visual stud• contribution to the creepy Prada store in Michael Rakowitz built in St. Louis in 1956. The model rose ies program within MIT's Department of SoHo, where they flirted with pornogra• Dull Roar and fell as air went in and out of it, like a Architecture. His closely-watched previous phy and totalitarian aesthetics in the blustery monster in a cut-rate Playland. Lombard-Freid Fine Arts project paraSITE, a set of custom-built inflat• shop's wallpaper and video installations. 531 West 26th Street. 2nd Floor For those who don't recall, Pruitt-lgoe able shelters for the homeless, has been Appropriately, they called the first series Closed May 28 was a fixture of the federal government's exhibited in the United States and Europe. of wallpaper, a floral collage of body postwar urban renewal efforts, constructed Dull Roarwas a walk-through narrative that parts and grainy images, "vomit." in the spirit of Corbusian "sun, space, and balanced the didactic march through a slice At SFMoMA, each project is presented greenery." The project degenerated into a of modernism with parody—a mock "who in a wide floor-to-ceiling strip of wallpaper place of such violent despair that it was killed modernism" instructional . A vitrlne holds books, magazines, and dynamited on camera for all the world (and Throughout Dull Roar, your eyes returned ephemera, but most of the action is on the future architecture students) to see in 1972. to the inflatable/deflatable Pruitt-lgoe build• walls, including angled flatscreen TVs The building's auto-da-fe inevitably con• ing/monster. The cartoonish blob was a showing video projects by the firm. The jures up associations with the attacks of laugh, but it drew ghoulish attention to itself only drawback to this approach is the 9/11. For Rakowitz, it's no coincidence that like a car crash or the bloody aftermath of a decision to place the exhibition texts on the architect of Pruitt-lgoe was MInoru terrorist bombing. Rakowitz's didactic dis• small angled panels on the floor, making Yamasaki, whose other infamous design was play is a parody of a tale that's cautionary, them Illegible to an adult of average the World Trade Center. but all too true—a noble Corbusian goal height, unless you are willing to squat The Among architects and students, the became something far less noble when show, however, does an admirable job of The centerpiece of Dull Roar, Michael Pruitt-lgoe failure is to housing what the someone decided to build it. Even demoli• showcasing and exploring one of the most Rakowitz's installation at Lombard-Freid Edsel is to the automobile. But if the tion didn't destroy the monster, which rose innovative, consistently surprising, and Fine Arts, was a walkway constructed of ply• Edsel was farce, Pruitt-lgoe was tragedy. from rubble into other haunting shapes. influential design firms working today. wood and two-by-fours—^the sort of obser• And there's more to it. 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Philosophical Toys THROUGH AUGUST 20 EXHIBITIONS apexart Richard Hoeck, Marko Lulic, THROUGH JULY 16 291 Church St. John Miller, et al. What Sound Does A Color wvvw.apexan.com Living and Working in Vienna Make? Austrian Cultural Forum 11 East 52nd St. Eyebeam THROUGH JULY 31 www.acfny.org 540 West 21st St. Position: Full Time Student I I II www.eyebeam.org Exhibition The Gallery of the School of THROUGH AUGUST 21 Les Visiteurs D'ete THROUGH JULY 18 the International Center of Moss Gallery The High Line Photography 152 Greene St. Museum of Modern Art 1114 Avenue of the Americas www.mossonline.com 11 West 53rd St. www.icp.org www.moma.org THROUGH AUGUST 5 THROUGH AUGUST 22 2005 Young Architects THROUGH JULY 21 Living for the City Program Proposals Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition Jack Shainman Gallery Museum of Modern Art UBS/Bard College Exhibition 513 West 20th St. 11 West 53rd St. Center www.bicany.org www.moma.org 7401 South Broadway, THROUGH AUGUST 6 Red Hook Federal: Exhibition of THROUGH AUGUST 26 www.bard.edu/mfa Photographs Arne Jon Jutrem, Cathrine Storefront for Art and Maske, et al. THROUGH JULY 29 Architecture Breakable Art: Contemporary The Subjective Figure 97 Kenmare St. Glass and Ceramics from Robert Miller Gallery vmw.storefrontnews.org Norway 524 West 26th St. Scandinavia House www.robertmillergallery.com THROUGH AUGUST 7 58 Park Ave. Danny Lyon's photograph taken from the roof of the Beekman Hotel in the Chanel www.scandinaviahouse.org Alles. In Einer Nacht. Metropolitan Museum of Art late 1960s (pictured above) is part of a new exhibition at the Museum of the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery 1000 5th Ave. Michael Kenna City of New York titled The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. The image 521 West 21st St, www.metmuseum.org Robert Mann Gallery www.tanyabonakdar shows the headquarters of the city's infamous Department of Urban 210 11th Ave., 10th Fl. gallery.com Renewal at 72 Gold Street before, ironically, the building was torn down to THROUGH AUGUST 10 www.robertmann.com Changing Tides II: make way for new development. The image represents the cyclical nature of Saved: The First Ten Years of Envisioning the Future of THROUGH AUGUST 28 construction and destruction that Lyon sought to document when he the World Monuments Fund the East River Meteorologic Phenomena Gallery at the Prince George moved to New York, at the height of the urban renewal movement in 1966. Urban Center Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery (Sixty acres of 19"'-century structures below Canal Street were slated for 15 East 27th St. 457 Madison Ave. West 249th St. and www.wmf.org www.mas.org demolition that year.) Lyon's work was published in 1969 under the same Independence Ave., Bronx www.wavehill.org title; in light of Lower Manhattan's latest cycle of renewal, the Museum of THROUGH JULY 30 THROUGH AUGUST 12 the City of New York is presenting Lyon's work and a new printing of his Organic Robert Mapplethorpe: Deborah Butterfield 1969 book (published by povverHouse Books). His photographs are the Safe-T-Gallery Neoclassicism Neuberger Museum of Art 11 Front St., Brooklyn Sean Kelly Gallery Purchase College, State only existing documentation of some demolished buildings, and depict www.safetgallerY.com 528 West 29th St. University of New York spare skylines and almost serene pre-demolition landscapes. www.skny.com 735 Anderson Hill Rd. Wall to Wall Drawings Purchase Drawing Center THROUGH AUGUST 13 www.neuberger.org Danny Lyon 35 Wooster St. Value Meal: Design and The Destruction of Lower Manhattan www.drawingcenter.org (over)Eating THROUGH AUGUST 29 Museum of the City of New York, 1220 5th Avenue. Through September 18 Center for Architecture Friedlander The Joan Mitchell 536 LaGuardia PI. Museum of Modern Art Foundation 1997, 1998, and www.aiany.org 11 West 53rd St. 1999 Grant Recipients www.moma.org Jodi Smits Anderson JULY 27 Cue Art Foundation SWOON LECTURES It's Not Easy Being Green— Material Connexion 511 West 25th St. Deitch Projects Drawing from the Modern, Or Is It? 6:00 p.m. JULY 13 www.cueartfoundation.com 76 Grand St. 1945-1975 8:00 a.m. Center for Architecture Thomas Whipple www.deitch.com Museum of Modern Art Holiday Inn, Kingston 536 LaGuardia PI. Air, Water, and Moisture Atomica: Making the Invisible 11 West 53rd St. 503 Washington Ave., www.aiany.org Management in Commercial Visible THROUGH AUGUST 14 www.moma.org Kingston Building Envelopes Esso Gallery Glasshouses: The wvm.eba-nys.org JULY 29 THROUGH AUGUST 31 8:00 a.m. 531 West 26th St., 2nd Fl. Architecture of Light and Air Hilton Long Island Mariko Mori www.essogallery.com New York Botanical Garden Project in the Projects JULY 21 7:00 p.m. 598 Broad Hollow Road, 200th St. and Kazimiroff Viewings by appointment Melville Diana Stuart The Kitchen 2005 Summer Program Blvd., Bronx www.martinezgallery.com www.eba-nys.org New York's History Through 512 West 19th St. apexart www.nybg.org Its Manholes www.thekitchen.org THROUGH SEPTEMBER 3 291 Church St. JULY 20 12:00 p.m. City Art: New York's Percent www.apexart.org THROUGH AUGUST 19 Julien Studley MAKOR Bridge Freezes Before Road for Art Program Shaping the Skyline 35 West 67th St. Center for Architecture LIST YOUR EVENT Hunch and Flail Gladstone Gallery 6:30 p.m. www.92y.org 536 LaGuardia PI. DIARYi^ARCHPAPER.COM Artists Space 515 West 24th St. Center for Architecture www.gladstonegallery.com www.aiany.org 536 LaGuardia PI. 38 Greene St., 3rd Fl. www. skysc ra per. o rg www.artistsspace.org

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William Eggleston: Danny Lyon New York Fast Forward; THROUGH AUGUST 26, The Nightclub Portraits 1973 The Destruction of Lower Enrique Norton/TEN FRIDAYS And Marvin Israel: Black Manhattan ARquitectos Design + DJs •*• Dancing Paintings Museum of the City of New The Museum of the City of 6:00 p.m. Cheim & Read Gallery York New York Cooper-Hewitt, National 547 West 25th St. 1220 5th Ave. 1220 5th Ave. Design Museum www.cheimread.com www.mcny.org www.mcny.org 2 East 91st St. ndm.si.edu THROUGH SEPTEMBER 4 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 24 THROUGH OCTOBER 31 Peter Wegner: Lever Francisco de Goya: The High Line Los Caprichos WITH THE KIDS Labyrinth Museum of Modern Art Chelsea Art Museum Lobby 11 West 53rd St. JULY 16 556 West 22nd St. 390 Park Ave. www.moma.org Digital Devices, Inspiring www.chelseaartmuseum.org 310-586-6886 Architecture THROUGH NOVEMBER 7 1:00 p.m. THROUGH SEPTEMBER 25 Hella Jongerius Selects: Agnes Martin Solomon R. Guggenheim Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams Works from the Permanent ...unknown territory... Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Dia: Beacon 1071 5th Ave. 1000 5th Ave. Cooper-Hewitt, National 3 Beekman St., Beacon www.guggenheim.org www.metmuseum.org Design Museum www.diaart.org 2 East 91st St. Archikids Workshop THROUGH SEPTEMBER 26 ndm.si.edu THROUGH DECEMBER 31 10:00 a.m. Greater New York 2005 Sol LeWitt The Skyscraper Museum P.S.I Contemporary Art Center THROUGH SEPTEMBER 5 Curved Wall With Towers, 39 Battery PI. 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens Sunscapes: Our Magnetic Circle With Towers www.skyscraper.org www.ps1.org Star Madison Square Park American Museum of www.madisonsquarepark.org THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2 New Work/New Acquisitions Natural History 2005 Summer Saturdays Museum of Modern Art SAVED: THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE WORLD THROUGH APRIL 10 Governors Island West and 79th St. 11 West 53rd St. MONUMENTS FUND Andy Warhol wvvw.govisland.org www.amnh.org www.moma.org Gallery at the Prince George, Dia's Andy: Through the Lens 15 East 27th Street of Patronage Through July 29 Enrique Norton THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30 Vera Lutter Three New Buildings for New 2005 Young Architects Nabisco Factory York City Program JULY 27 To mark its 10th anniversary, the World Monuments Fund Dia: Beacon Museum of the City of New RS.1 Contemporary Art Center Cai Guo-Qiang (WMF) inaugurated a new permanent gallery at the Prince 3 Beekman St., Beacon George Hotel, with a debut exhibition devoted to ten of its York 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens 7:00 p.m. www.diaart.org "successes," i.e., sites that have been saved through the 1220 5th Ave. www.ps1.org Edinburgh Castle WMF's funding and consciousness-raising efforts. Included in www.mcny.org Castle Hill, Edinburgh the show are the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, the Alexander THROUGH OCTOBER 2 www.fruitmarket.co.uk FILM & THEATER Palace in Russia, and the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Steve Powers, Os Gemeos, Tolerance and Identity: Jews The new exhibition space itself, a gallery designed and built by Beatriz Barral, et al. JULY 28 THROUGH JULY 31 in Earty New Yoric (1654-1825) nine students from the Parsons Design Workshop program I The Dreamland Artist Club Federal: The 24 Hour Movie Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of the City of New over the last three years, is an interesting preservation story in by Mary Ellen Carroll BROOKLinVIDEO Various venues in Coney York itself. Housed in the Prince George, a building originally con• Island 1220 5th Ave. 9:00 a.m. Holeckova 49, Prague structed in 1904 as a Beaux-Arts hotel and now owned and www.creativetime.org viww.mcny.org 22 East 12th St. www.futuraprojekt.com/en operated as an SRO by Common Ground, the gallery serves as www.cinemavillage.com/ a connector between 27th Street and the building's ballroom THROUGH SEPTEMBER 8 THROUGH OCTOBER 9 chg/cv THROUGH AUGUST 14 (recently restored by Beyer Blinder Belle, which was also the Artbook at Visionaire Franz Ackermann, Steve Vanishing Point architect of record on the gallery renovation). Previously, the Visionaire Gallery DiBenedetto, Terry Winters, CONTINUING Wexner Center only entrance to the ballroom was through a residential portion 11 Mercer St. etal. FILM & THEATER 1871 North High St., Columbus of the building on 28th Street. The students stripped away lay• www.wexarts.org www.visionaireworld.com Remote Viewing: Invented THROUGH JULY 28 ers of plaster to expose the hotel's original terra cotta construc• Worids New York's First Solar- tion, and stabilized peeling paint and wallpaper with clear coat• THROUGH AUGUST 28 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 9 Whitney Museum of Powered Film Festival ings. WMF donated funds to the restoration project in return Paradise: Cai Guo-Qiang Along the Way: MTA Art For American Art 8:45 p.m. for the use of the passageway as a gallery space. Transit, Celebrating 20 Years 120 Park Ave. Zacheta National Gallery Solar One at Stuyvesant Cove of Public Art www.whitney.org of Art East 23rd St. and FDR Dr. UBS Art Gallery www. cecenter.org PI. Malachowskiego 3, Warsaw 1285 Avenue of the Americas Burie Marx, Isamu Noguchi, www.zacheta.art.pl www.ubs.com Hamilton Finlay THROUGH AUGUST 14 Down the Garden Path: THROUGH AUGUST 29 Raoul Walsch Retrospective Artist's Gardens Since 1960 Constructive Provocation THROUGH SEPTEMBER 10 Museum of the Moving Image Architekturzentrum Wien Policy and Design for Queens Museum of Art 35th Ave. and 36th St., Housing: Lessons of the Flushing Meadows Queens Museumsplatz 1, Vienna Corona Park, Queens www.azw.at Urban Development www.movingimage.us Corporation 1968-1975 www.queensmuseum.org Center for Architecture THROUGH AUGUST 22 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 18 536 LaGuardia PI. Jean Helion Bryant Park Summer Rim Atelier Van Lieshout www.udchousing.org National Academy Museum Festival MAK Center for Art 1083 5th Ave. Bryant Park Stubenring 5, Vienna Aemout Mik: Refraction www.nationalacademy.org www.bryantpark.org www.mak.at Patty Chang: Shangri-La Rhizome ArtBase 101 THROUGH OCTOBER 23 THROUGH OCTOBER 2 Extreme Textiles: Designing EVENTS The Sixth International New Museum of FEDERAL: THE 24 HOUR MOVIE BY MARY ELLEN CARROLL Contemporary Art For High Performance Garden Festival JULY 19 Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street 556 West 22nd St. Cooper-Hewitt National Estevan Lodge at Jardins Storefront for Art and July 28, 9:00 a.m. www.newmuseum.org Design Museum de M6tis Architecture 2005 Benefit Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street 2 East 91st St. 200 Highway 132, Grand The Apartment Through August 6 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 11 www.ndm.si.edu M6tis, Quebec 213 West 23rd St. Janet Cardiff: Her Long www.jardinsmetis.com wvm.storefrontnews.org On July 28, 2003 at 9:00 a.m. Mary Ellen Carroll and a small Robert Smithson Black Hair crew began filming a 24-hour-long movie documenting a day at 10:00 a.m. Whitney Museum of THROUGH OCTOBER 17 THROUGH JULY 15 the Federal Building at 11000 Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Central Park Kiosk American Art D-Day, Modern Day Design Summer Design Institute: Angeles. Exactly two years later, the film, reminiscent of Andy 6th Ave. and Central 945 Madison Ave. Center Pompidou What is Design? Warhol's experimental real-time films, will be shown at Cinema Park South www.whitney.org Cooper-Hewitt, National Georges Pompidou, Paris Village in dual projection—two screens will simultaneously pic• www.publicartfund.com Design Museum www.cnac-gp.fr ture the front and back of the building (pictured above). The THROUGH OCTOBER 30 2 East 91st St. film is accompanied by an exhibition of photographs, taken by THROUGH SEPTEMBER 18 Jim Hodges ndm.si.edu THROUGH NOVEMBER 20 Carroll over the 15 years before the film's making, at the Look and See Tony Oursler Douglas Coupland Storefront for Art and Architecture. 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