AN EYE ON NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE Published by the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, volume 57, number 7, March 1995 U L
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Volumes/, Number 7, Morch 1995 The American Institute of Marilyn Jordan Taylor: love with the big cities. At Radclifie, she studied politics and government Editor: Jayiic Merkcl Architects New York Chapter but realized that it was the spaces in Copy Editor: Noel Millea is grateful to the following for When the Client Is You News Editor: Matthew Barhydt cities that intrigued her. After a one- their support of Oculus: Managing Editor: Kira Gould by Kira Gould year program in stnictures, materials, Pulse Editor: Katherine K. Cliia and systems at MIT, she headed to Contributing Editor: Wendy Moonan Aside from being Production Editing/Art Direction: BENEFACTORS Washington to work. She wound up one of two female McRolxrrts Mitchell Visual Conununications A. J. Contracting Company, Inc at SOM — "the kind of firm you Stall Photographer: Dorothy Alexander partners at s;iy you'll never work for," she said, Corporate Interiors Contracting, Inc. SIddmore, now in her twenty-fourth year at die Cosentini Associates Owings & Merrill Ameruan Institute of Architects company. But it Wiis a perfea fit, Empire Office Equipment, Inc. and the head of New York Chopter liecause SOM's Washington office 200 Lexington Avenue Furniture Consultants, Inc. that firm's urban New York, New York 10016 Marilyn Jordan concentrated primarily on planning John Gallin & Son, Inc. design and plan• 212-683-0023 Taylor work at that time. "It brought ning department, Jaros Baum & Bolles together all the things I cared alxiut," Marilyn Taylor is a passionate Lehr Construction she said. She worked on projects Boord of Directors 1995 belie\'er in urban life. To her, the such as the Monumental Q)rridor Marilyn Taylor. AIA, President National Reprographics, Inc. tangled webs of federal, state and Jerry A. Davis, FAIA, in W
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Gates Around lition, and relocation of the kitchen Commerce, will soon begin work on a $35.00 paper) is the first book on the and dining room. The long-tenn goal new master plan smdy of downtown work of his office, which he disman- Swid Powell of the master plan is to "provide an Brooklyn. The goals of the RI'A are to ded after five decades of practice last appropriate setting for all of die pro• develop recommendations to increase year. As his swan song, this book must by Matthew Barhydt grams as they exist today, as well as to retail and nighttime acdvit)^, to have been difficidt to write. It strikes a provide for ftiture growth and improve the quality of life; to strength• compromise between the number of change." Specifically, the architects en links Ijetween kxal academia and works included and the attention propose connecting and reconfiguring business; and to attract new higli devoted to each. the two buildings; construaing a new technology businesses to die area. entry loggia; combining gardens and Like the buildings, the text by the terraces; improving or replacing build• The Liglithouse, Inc, an educanonal architea on each project says much ing systems; making the building more and service oi^anizauon for people with very litde. The careflil editing of accessible and bringing all areas into with impiiired vision, has just pul> photograplis and plans mosdy over• compliance with ADA requirements. lished ADA Acceisibility Guidelines: comes the limitations of the Rizzoli Proinsiom for People with Impaired format, which can mrn the work of Vision. The booklet is $10; send serious architeas into coffee-table fare. News Notes checks made out to the IJghthouse, Inc., to: Publications Department, My main regret is the necessarily by Matthew Barhydt Lighthouse Industries, 36-20 cursory treatment of some projects, Swid Powell offices/showroom/workroom like the Walker Art Center in Polshek and Partners will he iht Northern Boulevard, Long Island Minneapolis, whidi coidd fill Ixxiks of architeas for a new wing of die City, New York 11101. their own. TTie design of museums American Natural History Museimi. For the designer rabletop products TTie James Marston Fitch Charitable was Barnes's special strength. Another A modernisric concepmal design company, Swid Powell. Paul Gates, Tnist awarded grants to Julie Sloan was houses, ofteii made of common scheme was approved by the Architea de\'eloped a system of ele• ($10,000 to research nineteendi-cen- materials iLsed in limited programs but MiLseum's board in December. gant steel columns, thin partitions, tury American manufacturing process• endowed with an el^ant simplicity and fixed- and sliding-glass panels to Fox& es for stained glass); Richard I. Ortega that seems effortless, but is actually s^^te a showroom, offices, and Fowle ($7,500 for the study of successfiil his• quite difficidt to achieve. Given his workroom from warehouse space in a Architects toric bridge rehabilitadons); and office's sensitivity to clients, it is former industrial loft at 55 West 13th has been Richard Biunham ($5,000 to exam• surprising that the owners are not Street. Q)nstniction was recendy selected ine the economic and environmental mentioned. completed on the 9,000-square-foot by the relationships of historic affordable Neariy 500 architeas, including this center, intended to speed the distribu• Society of housing). writer, passed through the Barnes tion of commissioned products from Jewish office. Tlie depth of talent in practice manufacturers to retail oudets. Steven Science to Finally—A Barnes Book was perhaps one reason why it received Sills was responsible for furnishings renovate and works of art; Paul Marantz did the die AlA Finn Award in 1980. Like his the exteri• By Lester Korzilius Harvard mentor, Walter Gropius, ^ custom lighting; Don Kaufman was or and the color consultant; and Tom Ponzio, Barnes may be remembered by future interior of The work of the constmction manager. generations as much for the architeas its Queen Edward Larrabee he helf)ed train as for the buildings he Anne- Barnes proves created. Pennoyer and Warren style town Louis Sullivan's house on Elevation. Society of Jewish assertion that a Lester Korzilitis, ALA, practices architecture in at Fountain House Science East 39di building mirrors New York City. Street. the personal In two adjacent buildings on West Work is expeaed to be complete by charaaeristics of 47th Street, Peter Pennoyer and Kudos midyear. its architea. Charles Warren Associated Architects Both Barnes and his buildings have an by Matthew Barhydt h;j5 begun a renovation for the Ehrenkrancz & Ecksmt Architects understated elegance, a ^nde but firm Fountain House, an instimdon for the will lead the team of master planners bearing, a pragmatic sensibility, and a Two New York City firms recently mentally ill. Tliis initial work is the chosen by the South Carolina State received honor awards from the first of three phases of construcuon Port Authority for the 60-acre Union American Association of Design and recommended by the architects in Pier in historic Charleston. Other What is remarkable is how good the Produaion Professionals in the their June master plan and will eventu• team members include Vickerman work is in many different building Performing Arts. Its United Stales ally include asbestos abatement, demo- Zachary Miller (port planning and types, which the division of the book Instimte for Theater Technology maririme engineering); Ardiur by building type underscores. Barnes's Architecture Awards program cited Andersen Real Estate Advisory impressive gamut of distinguished Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates Services; Thomas & Hutton projects — residential, commercial, for the renovation of the Brooklyn Engineering Co.; Travers Associates cultural — demonstrates that he Academy of Music's Majestic Theater; (traffic and transportation); Ray understood which aspects of a projea and Polshek and Partners for the HufT Architeas; and Arthur Ziegler could be manipulated and which Center for the Arts Theater Verba (development consultant and were unchangeable. Buena Gardens in San Francisco. historic preservadon). Jurors were Barton Myers, FAL\, Surprisingly, Edward Larrabee Barnes, FRAIC; Leon Whiteson, critic; and The Regional Plan Association, in Artrhitect (New Yoric: Rizzoli, 256 Ken Denison, technical theater conjunction with die Downtown pages, introduction by Peter Blake, direaor. Brooklyn Development 120 black-and-white illustrations, 100 Fountain House, view of new entrance at Association/Brooklyn Chamber of color, 8 1/2 X 11, $60.00 clodi. First prize in the DC Panamerican 47th Street
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built." Pe^ Deamer, chair of d)e depan- Biennial of Architecnire in Quito, McGraw Berry, AIA, was honored for Ugly and very biLsy land.scape of Lower tnent ofarchitccttirc at Bartuird College, l^cuador, has been awarded to Graff Pay-Per-View in New York City. Manhattan is seen to be adverse, if too lives in Triheca with her husbitnd and Mitchell/Giurgola Architects (in asso• much is cleaned up, its charaaer will Chapter member Frances Halslund, pawier, architect Scott iHnllips. and their ciation with Rancom, WIdnian, be somewhat diminished. It will also FAIA, chiiired the architecture jury. two young childreti. KraiLse, Brezinski) for die Air ;uid be imponant to retain the nautical Tod Williams, FAIA. chiiired interiors; charaaer of the waterfront rather than Space Center in Hampton, Virginia. "First I diink they ought to budd die and Alexander Cooper, FAIA, chaired create a festival midl there. And the Ricardo Zurita of Beyer Blinder Belle Staten Island Ferry Terminal. I'm all urban design. squares of Lower Manhattan, whidi was a juror for die urban design ft)r adding residential, converting some are very much leftover and idiosyncrat• category, Tod Williams, FAIA of Tod of the old office buddings. There ic, should be understocxl ;uid treated as Williams/Billie Tsien and Asscxiates should be, I think, a carefid, reality- OFF THE CUFF such, not molded into a park" was a feamred speaker. biised planning study. It's not just Margaret Riiddick is a partner in Hetntz housing. It's what happens at night on Several AIA New York Chapter What Should Happen Rnddick Lvidscape Architeits with offices at the street, how it ties together widi members received AIA 1995 Design 32 Water Street in Lower Man/fatutn. in Lower Manhattan? Battery Park City and Tribeca on the Awards. In the architeaure auegory, street level, how you bridge the gap honors went to Polshek and Parmers "I don't want ;uiydiing to happen. 1 "Ilie problems of Lower Manhattan between the water and Broadway. I for the Onter for the Arts llieater at don't want anybcxiy to come down — mass transportation, adaptive reuse ;dso think they should go aliead — Verba Biiena Gardens in San here. There are too many people of existing buildings, urban design there have been long-range plans for Francisco; to Kohn Pedersen Fox already." Peter Wheeluni^t, an anititect intervention — represent a challenge restoring Bartery Park — and that Associates, for Westendstrasse 1 in and urita; has lived and worked in Lnm- to the design community. The solu• shoidd go forward. With all the people Frankfiirt; and to V. Polsinelli Manhaiuvi sime 1979. (See "Profile, "p. 9.) tions are exacdy the kinds of things going to the Stame of Liberty, it should Architects, for the Advertising Agency architects should be involved in, not "We're very excited about the Business be tied to other places down there. Projeci. In the urban design categpr\', leave to the bureaucrats and real estate Improvement Distria, and we know TTiese things take time. 1 really think awards went to Ehrenkrantz & developers. Here's the chance to jump that the jKople involved in it are very one of die focal jx)ints is our pmjea, Ecksmt Architects for Inner H;irbor in. Maybe somebody shoidd have a uitan people, so there may not be a and part of our solution was trying to East in B;iltimore; and to Hardy competition that woidd lead to an idea problem, but wherever business tie die future esplanade to Banery Holzman PfeiflFer Associates, Los everyone could get behind. It would improvement districts are created, they Park." Frederic Sclnvartz of Angeles, for the Los Angeles Public have to be done in partnerships with tend to sanitize and suburbanize urban Anderson/Sclmianz Architects is iwrkiugon Libraiy/Onind Library master plan. In politiad and real estate p)eople. Lower spaces. 'Iliis isn't just a problem for tlx Staten Isbnd Fnry Termitial with Vaituri the interiors category', Polsliek and Manhanan is a place where everylxxly Lower Manhartan. It's tme on 42nd and Scott Brown of PfnLiddphia. Parmers was recognized for the project has to talk to one another — the way Street where the design language is very mentioned above; and Kathryn we rarely do in New York — from the 'My impression from friends in preser• much urban mall.' If the sometimes r^onal level down, from the Port vation, with whom I agree, is that die Authority and MTA to the merchants' most enli^tened preservation perspec• associations. If ;mythinggood is ^ing tive focuses on the quality of the space to happen, it's going to have to be an and the density of the place radier di;in integrated effon." Jotuithtn Wnur, an on individual buddings. What is most architea. works iis a vice president of the important to keep down there is the Economic Development Corporation in Lower streetwaU and die sense of canyons. Manfkitt4in. Iliat is what L)wer Manlianan is. I "I don't know whether this is the most think it would lie horrible, horrible, important issue for the entire area, but horrible to penetrate the financial dis• the issue that the Tribeca community trict with parks becaiLse they won't hiis nillicxl around is the CommcxJities even get sunlight. The waterfront is the Exchange Btiilding. As originally place for parks. proposed at something like 59 stories, "I have a view about what should be it woidd have cast shadows on our done with the older Class B buildings school, P.S. 234. and Washington that are not financially viable — not to Market Park, die neighborhood park. tear them down but to reuse them for Westendstrasse I. Kohn Pederseti Fox Associates Graff Pay-Per-View. Kathryn McGraw Berry Iliat proposid really brouglit the neigh- transient business residences and Iwrhcxxl together. TTie height of the tourists, people who don't really nml building was rcxiucetl to around 36 sto• parks. ries, and it now .seems to lie on hold. • Hie other thing that is st) vital about "The community is more divided Lower Manhattan is die liinchtime about zoning proposals that woidd crowds, die incredible energ)' that pbce .dlow commercial activity on the first has. ITiat intense cluster of skyscrapers two stories of bl 4 AIA NEW YORK CHAPTER REINVIGORATING LOWER MANHATTAN REINVIGORATING LOWER MANHATTAN by Jayne Merkel The Problem 1993 (96 pages. 220 color illustra- No corner of America has as long, var• dons.8 78xll Vi. $18.94. paper, at ied, Ixsniirched, and ^amorous a his• the City Planning Bookstore, 22 tory as the litde tip of Lower Reade Street), noted that it was Manliattan populady known as Wall becoming a residential and retiiil area Street. It is the binhplace of the city, as well as a financial center. "In 1970. the most densely packed place in the there were only 833 people living wodd, the hean of the financial dis• south of Chambers Street. Now there trict, and the symbol of capitalism. are more diiui 14.000. Neady half live But it is in trouble. in Battery Park City; one-fifth live in...fomier office or industrial loft Although four of the ten biggest real buildings." It pointed out that "cxluca- estate deals of 1994 were made for tional and retail uses have emerged or office space in Uiwer Manhattan, the greatly expanded," five new hotels vacancy rate is over 25 percent, and j; have been built since 1981. and "the average annual rent;il nites have not ^ area's historic resources have been L>egun to rise again ;is they have in c increasingly recognized." The plan Midtown, according to a Cushman & Lower Manhiitta drew attention to easy waterfront Wakefield report published in The access, also increasingly appreciated, New York Times ow January 16. ITie and the 80 acres of parks "amid Lower small floorplates and limited electrical L^is public policy discussion on Times reported January 1 that Sullivan Manhattan's dense urbanity." & Cromwell had purchased 500,000 service, a one-industry orientarion, and February 9, was prepared by the square feet at 125 Broad Street; the the lack of direa access for commuter Lower Manhattan Task Force with IVansportation was identified as a New York Mercantile Exchange was rail all hinder redevelopment. The deputy mayors Fran Reiter and John problem even though only three per• building anodier 500,000 at die Department of City Planning identi• Dyson as cochairs. cent of the 400,000 or so workers and Wodd Financial Center, Goldman, fied these obstacles and oudined them visitors who go to the rip of the island And on January 1, the Alliance for Sachs leased 425,000 at One New with the oppormnities presented by each workday arrive by car. Althougli Downtown New York, a Business Yodc Plaza; and Group Healdi Inc. the area in Mayor David N. Dinkins "93 percent come by subway, PA TH Improvement District (BID) with bought 360,000 at44lNindi and City Planning Direaor Richard trains, public or express buses, or fer• Cad Weisbrcxl at the helm, was creat• Avenue. But there was more acnviry in L. Schaffer's Plan for Loiver Manhattan ries," the plan notes, "what is gained in ed for the area below Murray Street, Midtown, though all but one of the ofOaober 1993. convenience and accessibility is some• except the Nassau Street Mall, which major real estate commitments there times lost in overcrowding, traffic In 1994, the Banery Pad<:City has a BID of its own. Battery Park were for rentals rather than purchases. jams, and a josding for space between Authority and the J. M. Kaplan Fund, City, Southbridge Towers, and pedestrians and vehicles...." It recom• working with the Port Authority of South Street Seaport. Weisbrod The decline in real estate values in mends feasibility studies of commuter New York and New Jersey, the is the respected veteran of the city's Lx>wer Manhanan affects everything in rail service, "construaion of the long- landmarks Conservancy, the Economic Development Corporarion the city, because as billable assessed postponed Second Avenue subway." Downtown-Lower Manhattan who consolidated the Public values declined t)etween 1991 and and improvement of transit starions. Association, Jones Lang Wootton, and Development Corporation, the 1994 by 28.6 percent, income fi'om Also, it calls for ferry service to more a numL)er of city agencies, commis• Department of Ports and Trade, and real estate taxes decreased by 21 per• kxarions in the outer txiroughs and sioned Steven Peterson of the Financial Services Corporation cent, a loss of $115 million a year. suburbs, better airpon access, street Peterson/Littenbei^ 7\rchitects to there. He worked successftilly with With 20 million square feet of office improvements to facilitate traffic flow, develop an urban design plan for business leaders in three successive space unoccupied, vacancy rates increased enforcement of parking Lower Manhattan. It shows how rec• mayoral administrations. downtown are higher than at any time rules, and shutde bus service. ommendations of the Dinkins plan since Wodd War II. And the econom• might be enaaed. The plan was the This month Oculus looks at plans for ic impact of the lost jobs those vacan• Photographs, charts, and maps only New York project to win a 1995 the area and visits a real, live 24-hour cies represent is even greater — lost describe existing condirions and clarify Progmsitv Architecture desi^ award. resident — an architea, of course. In income taxes, money spent on ftnxl, recommendarions for historic preser• Peterson/Littenbei^ also won a PA upcoming issues, we will consider the clothing, housing, medical services — vation, more residendal development, urban design award in 1990 for their area's history, survey retail trends, dis• mns into the billions. In 1969. when and entertainment facilities. Hie plan Mid-Manhattan Urban Renewal Plan; cuss tourism, describe the computer• David Rockefeller decided to promote discusses the complicated zoning pro• their legible and elegant classical plan ized mapping, and report on die housing in Battery Park City, there visions in the area. It recommends a for the Spreebogen Compeution in progress of the initiatives in Lower were 350,000 office workers in down• special district with simplified and Berlin was among those exhibited at Manhattan, as well as focus on specific town. Half a million were expeaed by consolidated "zoning controls to make the Goedie Center last year. obstacles and oppommities there. 1994. In 1978, diere were 478,000; Lower Manhattan's development today diere are 375.000. more as-of-right and predictable" and On December 15. 1994, Mayor a "comprehensive urban design frame• Rudolph W. Giuliani announced a The Dinkins Plnn Only pan of the problem is competi• work" with retail continuity, streerwall plan to aa on the finding of his pre• City government's first comprehensive tion fi^om the suburbs and Midtown. conrinuity, prohibition of curb cuts on decessor's study. A Plan for the look since 1966 at this significant but Changing requirements for office certain streets, and other provisions for Reintalization of LmL>er Manhattan, litde three-quarters-of-a-square-mile space, historic building stock with pedestrian circulation. debated at the AL\'s first George S. area, the Plan for Lower Manhattan of OCULUS MARCH 1995 REINVIGORATING LOWER MANHATTAN vision for Lxiwer Manhattan." In order su^ested kxations for a connection to smdies of ways to improve subway The Peterson Plan to create it, he suggested m.iking the Long Island R.iilroad at Atlantic access to the area and create a lane for With .1 planner's notebtxik and an Water Street and West Street into Station in Brooklyn — the location of taxis extending south from 34th architect's eye. Steven Peterson walked boulevards, lining them with trees and the M and J lines near Fulton Street. It Street. And it notes, "The City is com• the streets of Lower Manhattan, snid- shop ftonts, and connecting them proposes a downtown Grand Ontral mitted to providing bener transpona• ied the maps, and lcH)ked at the build• around the tip of Lower Manhattan. Station, a proud, visible, and symbolic tion within the downtown area, ings to sec how the Dinkins plan's "Move .ill Battery Park ('ity ileviTop place where all the transit lines coidd including a new bus loop and ferr>' objectives might actually be realized. ment foiward to face out on West interconnect. He even found a place service f rom Bnx)klyn, Queens, and "Usually architects say, 'Save it .ill." Street" and tie die World Trade for it, one block south of Wall Street, Rockland and Westchester counties. " Real estate people say, Te;ir it .ill Center with Trilxxa by a continuoas between Nassau and Willi.im streets. The plan also recommends a series of down.' rhe plan shows how to save band of street-lc"vel retail activity, tax inceiidves for investment and Peterson's plan exists not just in the g(H)d buildings and that there is he said. building conversion in the area (see box words, but in pictures that are too enougli land for rebuilding on new on page 7). "The streets don't line up. You literally numerous and complicated to publish sites and open space," Peterson told a ain't Wiilk or drive through. There are in Oailiis in one fell swoop and too Although a front page anicle in The group of real estate developers, preser• no view corridors....Especi-illy around ftill of potendiilly controversial ideas to Netv York Times the day the plan was vationists, and neighboduKxl leaders Nassau Street and the area iionh of the digest in one reading. Pans of the plan released gave some cause for concern at a meeting last summer. His plan World Trade G^nter, there are no will appear in subsequent issues for with die statement, "expens say its provides a number of small public connections.' But there could be. your reflecuon — and reaction. problems are deeply nx)ted in the age squares (or polygons) for housing to "That little building next to the park• and architecmre of narrow and poody develop around, mosdy on the edges ing garage for the Brtxjklyn Banery equipped buildings, most built before of the Wall Street core. But even in Tunnel could be demolished for a WoHd War II," the program is note• the center, he said he thouglit conver• The Giuliani Plan idor." worthy for its recognition of the value sions could produce 12,000 to 14,000 view corn Essentially an initiative for economic of die Wall Street area's historic build• new dwelling units. stimulation, A PLiu for ti)e Noting that ".ill these reconimend.i- ing stcxrk and commitment to mixed- Rei'iuilization of Lower Manhanan tions have been ft)und in other use development. "Tliere are possibiliues here for living accepts most of the premises of the reports," he described the tangle of and working in the same building, for Dinkins plan. It recommends elimina• mass transportation systems in Lower That commitment Ls die reason for the entrepreneurial acnvity and for new tion of "zoning regularions that Miuihattaii, bemoaned the lack of rezoning recommendations. "But in schools," he said. "We've even shown impede die conversion of commercial commuter rail access from the nonh- addition to zoning dianges, to conven how the New York Stock Exchange buildings to residential use," but says ern suburbs ;uid Long Island, and buildings from commercial to residen• and the American StcKk Exchange nothing more specific about regulatory pointed out that both the PA IH tial or mixed-use will very likely require could expand directly actoss the streets impediments to rede\'elopment. It trains and many subway exits are far• changes to the building ccxJe and the from their existing locations. They says, "ITie Mayor has made commuter ther than the preferred one-quarter srare multiple dwelling code, ;uid envi- wouldn't have to leave. Iliere is room rail access to Lower Manhanan a mile, five- to se\'en-niinute w;ilk to ronment.il review is now necessary to gn)w." major transponation priority" of his most desunations. when you make those changes," appointt"cs to the MTA Board. explained die AIA's Carol Clark, who Pediaps the bi^est surprise was his But the Petersoii/Linenberg Pl.in goes TTiough it does not mendon the is also a planner and professor of statement, "The plan shows that it is beyond choosing one of the several Second Avenue subway, it advcxates preservation planning. possible to have some son of unified Since many aspeas of the Giuliani plan require approval of the City Planning Commission, the City Council, and the State Legislature, detiiils — and even essential features — aiuld change before it goes into effea, if indeed it does, as die tax abatements might be seen as inij>edinients to closing die budget gap. However, those involved in planning for Lower Manhanan are opumistic about the possibility of meaningftil change, as representarives of different political constiniencies and disciplines agree in general about what Lower Manhattan should Ixxome. The Alliance for Downtown Manhattan Already functioning by late fall, Carl Weisbrod's energetic Lower Manhattan BID for downtown New York was ready to move, widi exquisite symbolism, into Ernest R. Graham's Equitable Building of 1915 at 120 Broadway soon after the offici<-il The existing city from the Peterson Plan The proposed urban design plan in the Peterson PLm inauguration in January. The ultimate 6 AIA NEW YORK CHAPTER REINVIGORATING LOWER MANHATTAN PROVISIONS OF THE GIULIANI PLAN COMMERCIAL TAX BENEFITS —Short-term Program • Application to the program is limited to a three-year period. • An abatement of existing property taxes and commercial rent taxes will be available for newly-leased space or renewals in commercial office builditigs built before 1975. • The minimum lease term for large tenants (in excess of 50 employees) is ten years and for small tenants, five years. • To be eligible for the program, relocating tenants must cidier come from below 96th Street or outside New York City. • A minimum required investment of $ 10 per .square foot for lease renewds and $35 per square foot for new leises must be- made in tenant space or rammon areas of die building. • The program requires benefits be passed on to tenants. The real property tax program and the commetxrial rent tax progriim detailed below are intended to work togedier. Real Estate Tax Abatement In this five-year program, the abataiient in die first, second, and third years will be equal to 50 percent of die property rax in the initial year, based t)n the average tax per One of many possible images projected by the Environmental Simulation Center square foot and limited to $2.50 per square fix>t.I n the founh and fifth years, the benefit will equal two-diirds and one-third, respectively, of the initial tax abatement. comnierciiU structure, the 1.2-million- of the J. M. Kaplan Fimd, and Commercial Tax Abatement (CRT) sqnare-foot Equitable rose to 40 stories Michael Kwarder, FAIA, direaor of In this five-year program, the exemption in die first, second, and third years will be v^ithoiit a setback on less than an acre the New School for Social Research's equal to 100 percent of the a)mmercial rent tax in die initial year. In the founh ;uid of ground, casting its neighbors into Environmental SimiUation Center, on fifdi years, the benefit will equiil two-thirds and one-diird, respectively, of the initial darkness and causing the nation's first a computerized model of Lower commercial rent tax exemption. comprehensive zoning resolution in Manhattan to test development and 1916. rezoning proposals. COMMERCIAL TAX BENEFITS — Long-term Program "One of the things that makes Lower "You can query the model, find out Manhattan planning rare for New what the floor area of a building is, Industrial and Commercial Incentive Program (ICIP) York is that I don't think there are sig• and compare it with what Ls allowed • For new construction of state-of-the-an "sman buildings," the program offers a 100 nificant area*^ cf disagreement. There is under zoning. You can tell if the area percent exemption of die increased assessed value for four years. It is phased in at quite a broad consensus about what is overbuilt or underbuilt by zoning 12.5 percent diereafter for twelve years. should be done," Weisbrod said. "The standards. You can see the views from • For the renovation of commercial buildings, the program offers a 100 percent exemp• constraints are physical and economic. the windows. The next thing we want tion of the increased assessed value due to renovations for eight years. It is phased in to add is the vacancy data," Kwarder "We've been involved in helping to at a minimum of 20 percent of die current assessed value. Clianges being drafted will explained. "This is ati amazing tool for formulate the Mayor's plan. And we'll for die first time identify eligible ICIP work and ensure that the benefits reflea the urban analysis. be helping to get approval from City costs of improvements. Council and the State Legislature. "We've been meering with people Energy Savings We're trying to attraa exisiting from the Real Estate Board, the This tweK'e-year energy cost-saving program reduces elearicity aists by approximately businesses and to incubate new ones Mayor's Office, Landmarks. Con Ed 30 f>ercenr and natural gas costs by approximately 20 f)ercent for eight years. It is downtown. We're working on promo• is interested. Tliey are beginning to see phased in at 20 f)ercent each year thereafter. To be eligible, an owner must improve tion and advocacy campaigns and on the reladonship between infrastnic- a building by 20 percent of its current assessed value. A similar program is already improving transportation. We'll begin mre, planning, and zoning," he added. available in the outer boroughs ;ind in Manhattan north of 96th Street. by providing supplemental services The model, which was developed by such as street fumimre, .sanitation, and using maps and mathemarical data — security. And we'll be working to RESIDUAL CONVERSION TAX BENEFITS quaiiutative analysis ;LS well as visual improve the tourist experience, creat• analysis from observarion and pho• This program consists of a 100 percent exemption of die increased assessed value due ing a Heritage Trail for Lower tographs — will make it |x)ssible to to conversion for eight years. It Is phased in at 20 pexcem every year thereafter for Manhattan (with Richard Kaplan) develop and test [performance stan• twelve years. This program is combined with an abatement of die exisring tax base at and trying to connea South Street dards for zoning in a way they have 100 percent for ten years. It phased in at 20 percent every year diereafter for 14 years. Seaport with die World Trade Center, never been tested before. the Stame of Liberty, and Ellis Island." MIXED-USE TAX BENEFITS Schaffer explained, "The underiying This twelve-year program of renovation benefits for mixed-use buildings, where a problem you have with zoning resolu- ponion is converted to residential use wliile the rest remainscommercial , provides a High-tech Teamwork rions, midtiple dwelling codes, and 100 fx;rcent exemption of the increased assessed value due to renovations for eight As iFto bring die planning efFoit full building codes is that they were funda• years. It is phased in at 20 percent each year thereafter. The benefit is applicable to the circle, former City Planning Direaor mentally written to deal with new con- entire building. To be digible, an owner must improve a building by 20 percent of its Richard SchafFer, now a Columbia stmcoon and single-fiinction budd• current assessed value. planning professor, is working with ings. And zoning is based on a regular architects Richard Kaplan, cochairman street grid. The problem in Lower OCULUS MARCH 1995 REINVIGORATING LOWER MANHATTAI Manhattan is that you are de He pointed out that since the last zon• ing resolution of 1961, more than 75 percent of new constniaion was not permitted by zoning ;is-of-right. The developers had to get variances. Schafier, Kaplan, and Kvv.inlei think the nicxlel. which can analyze and sini- idate the effect of proposed buildings in advance, could reduce that time- consuming and cosdy prtxess and thereby promote development. It would also help determine shadow patterns, light and air impacts to simplify environmental review. "Having this mcxlel allows you to make a quantum leap. TTiis is the first time we'll be able to manipidate data, even to answer a simple question like how many square feet of budding I space exist," Schaffer explained. "You didn't have die abdity to visualize the information when the model Wiis used Chase Manhattan Plaza. Skidmore. Owings & Menill J. P. Morgan Headquarters. 60 Wall Street, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo in Midtown in the 1980s. This is dif• & Associates ferent. Everything is being mapped three-dimensioiially, for an are;i with Tribtxa was desimble and rezoned part subsianti.d percentage of business in "In order to create a new master plan well over 10 million square feet of of Tribeca to encourage residential New York is in the nonprofit wodd, for the area, you need three things: an space — the third largest business di.s- development. (Most of the pioneers idthougli we're getting a lot of compe• urban design plan, economic incen• trict in America [after Midtown moved in illegidly as their predecessors tition now from Adanta and other tives, and a regulatory plan. The last Manhattan and downtown Chicago].' had in Soho.) So on Greenwich Street, cities. Many major nonprofits have zoning resolution Wiis done in 1961. It one of the spurs, two or three new resi- their headquarters here. Beaiuse of the was mainly for Midtown, and it was dentiid buildings went up. But across tax abatements, some notable not-for- designed to apply to regular rectangu• The Solution the street was the last major city- profit corporations like the Ms. lar blocks. The zoning laws are not So many conditions are right for the owned piece of property outside Foundation and the Center for really the problem. ITie multiple reinvigoration of Lower Manhattan Bartery Park City, and they decided to Reprixluctive Law and Policy moved dwelling law is....Richard Schaffer is and so much intelligence, experience, give it to the Commodities Exchange." in. In the nonprofit wodd, it's become looking at how those regulatory provi• knowledge, and talent is involved that TTie site was just south of the hand• the place to be." sions coidd be mcxiified to permit resi• it is easy to ovedook the obstacles in some new neighborhood schcKil (by dential conversions." Kaplan Richard Kiiplan .igreed. "You can't the way. Basic agreement on goals will Richard Dattner), P. S. 234. and the explained. "Downtown has always pour old wine back into the (dd l>ot- be a help, but it is one thing to decide ma.ssive Exchange building would recycled itself It is the oldest mexlem des. The old buildings probably won't that historic preservation is important have cast shadows on the school yard city. What we are talking about now is he lorn down Ixxause they are bigger and another to select specific buildings and disttipted the area in numerous a dream of a new city." than current zoning would allow, so ft)r landmarking or demolition. Steven ways, so the community protested you couldn't replace them. But ility Brenda Levin, who is not an architect, Peterson's observation could be t;d 8 AIA NEW YORK CHAPTER DESK SPACE AVAILABLE Cadd You Need It! in nice loft office environment; archltect'soffice Management with use of conference room; - come look Consulting We Have It! 31st Street btwn. 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The liv• in a way of looking at die worid that Manhattan: ing rooms are still the same, but I've we all share to a greater or lesser gone from 1,800 square feet to 1,000. extent." Peter Wheelwright Lisa's space has tripled and so has the Architecture's role in die namral and by Jayne Merkel kids'." One suite is about 1,700 square feet, the odier 1,800. cidmral worlds has become a central For the last 15 years, while planners concern of his work. This term he is have been talking about residential Their three chddren, ages six, nine, teaching a studio with landscape archi• development in Lower Manhattan, and twelve, each have rooms of their tea Margaret Ruddick (who also architect Peter Wheelwright and his own off a vestibule in the south suite, works in Lower Manhattan) on envi• wife, photographer Lisa Hicks, have where there is a desk on one side and a ronmental issues in an area mudi dos- been living there, literally in the shad• bathrcxim in a little gabled roof stmc- er to home. Smdents are being asked ow of the World Trade Center. mre juts out into die space on the to consider the following problem: other. Work and play, business and "Dredged, straightened, bridged, "I was designing a renovation for die domestic arrangements coexist com• embanked, infilled, Spuyten Duyvd painter David Deiitsch on 14th Street, fortably like the modern additions to Creek today joins the Hud.son with and in die process I got his loft here. the turn-of-the-century space. the Hadem River as a navigable chan• 125 Cedar Street, Wheelwright loft Tlie building (a Richard.sonian nel. Along its south shore between the Wheelwright's career has changed rad• Romanesque office budding at 125 Hudson and Madile Hill, Inwcxxl ically too, at least partly because of his Cedar Street, buOt specidatively by the Hdl Park (which die Blue Guide caWs living ;u-rangements. He used to design Metropolitan Life Insurance 'the city's only primeval park') main• lofts and houses, mainly for artists, as Company in 1895) had been aban• tains the memory of its geologicd and the works in the living room by Mel doned since 1968, and a group of peo• precolonial histories ;uid initiates a Bochner, Laurie Simmons, Mel ple stmck a deal with the owner, loose park system consisting of Kendrick, Carol Durdiam, and others Bernard Coldberg, for a net lease for Riverside, Fort Tryon, Isham, and attest. His practice grew steadily, but 15 years. Wdliam Wegnian w;is here, Highbridge. On the other hand, its he became more interested in teaching a lot of video artists. Most of them are northern shore has been reconstmaed and writing. still here, under rent stabilization to accommodate shipping, rad trans• Peter Wheelwright in home offi. now," Wheelwright explained. "Five years ;igo I had an office of ten portation, and high-rise housing. The eflea of these systemic interseaions Deutsch's space included rwo suites people. Now I have one. though two has been to transform Spuyten Duyvd and a sm^dl rentid unit. The would be ideal. When the practice was into a bordedine that demarcates Wlieelwrights moved into the r(X)nis growing, I had to make a choice. I differences, rather thiin a threshold where the painter had lived, on the woidd have to move. I actually had a that seams them. Can 'namral' and northwest comer widi a view of the space. I even had a contract on it, then 'technological' ecologies cooperate?" Hudson River, and created an office I pulled out. I didn't want to give up living and working in the same place," for him and a darkroom for her in the How did he get from the intensely Wheelwright explained. "It's difficult old painting smdio on the south side. man-made world of Lower to see whether my shift in emphasis is Because of the age of die building, Manhattan to global ecology? "I come a namral evolution or a consequence double-hung windows in the living- from a long line of environmentalists. of the recession. But if I can continue dining room have classical five-inch My grandfather was head of the Kitchen with vietv of World Trade Center to do one or rwo projects a year, I can moldings that give the space a domes• Audubon Society. My unde, Peter keep up the balancing aa I'm doing tic feeling and contrast appe.dingly Matthiessen, writes on environmental now." with Wlieelwright s crisp, geometric, issues. [Matthiessen is Wheelwright's modern interventions in natural light His balancing aa is between architec- middle name.] My brother Jeff wrote birch wood and white tde. mre, teaching, and writing. He even Degrees of Disaster, the book about Exxon-Valdez. My brother and I take When the kids came along, they writes fiction: "I write it, but you can't a peculiar position on environmental packed the babies into a litde space read it because it has not been pub• issues. We're hard-core, but our view next to their bedroom for a while. lished," he said. is slighdy more complicated. Jeff Then the tenant moved out. Later the His first book will come out later this fiicuses on the sdences and technolo• architect completely reconfigured year, but it is nonfiction. The gies of the deanup that might cause the space, which is divided into two Mississippi Snuiio: Pwpositions on the more problems than the spill. I'm Vestibule of Wheelwright bedroom suite parts by an elevator bank, decorative Machining of Nature ^ew out of a sm• interested in how ailtural forces led to cast-iron staircase, and old-fashioned, dio he taught last year at Parsons the wodc of die Corps," Wheelwright the constmction fence and take the marble-tded hallway. School of Design on the catastrophic explained. kids in with their pails," he said. "Now flooding of the Mississippi River in "There used to be rows of litde 150- we have a different kind of view." 1993. It is a projea that places archi• He also described Lower Manhattan sqiuire-ftxjt offices along here with They look out on Cesar Pelli's Wodd tecture in the widest possible context. as an interactive environment, having hammered glass-and-gold letters — Financial Center with a slice of river in TTie book considers how interventions lived there long enough to witness dra• the kind of place you'd expect to find the middle, the litde St. Nicholas by the United Srates Army Corps of matic changes. Before Battery Park Sam Spade, Private Eye," Wheelwright Greek Orthodox Church of around Engineers contributed to — rather City WIS budt, they had a broad river said. "A lor of people here have a set of 1820 in the foreground, and Minom than prevented — the flood and con- view and access to the waterfront. rooms on one side or the other. We Yamasaki's Wodd Trade Center dudes, "It is too simplistic to disparage were lucky to get the whole floor. "We used to joke that we had a beach buddings on both sides. the Corps of Engineers; they only Over the years we've changed it all house in Mardiattan. TTiere was sand facditate a process that is deeply TTheir loaition is both central and iso• around. The bedrooms are where my out there. We used to creep through ingrained in the culmral history of this lated. "We aauatly used to ride die OCULUS MARCH 1995 \ Cross section. Vitra Fire Station. London. Z^ha Haditi Cross section. Vitra Fire Station East elevation. Vitra Fire Station PATH train to New Jersey to do our views of the llheinhafen An and Brian Clarke at & Fanners (and David Coppertield) marketing. Living south of the World Media Center in Dusseldorf on the Quanier 206, Friedrichstrasse, Trade Center is radically different than Juxtaposed with these colorfril paint• Tony ShafrazI Bedin, as well as on several historic being on the northern edge. Our chil• ings were the most serene ink draw• buildings. dren went to kindergarten and nursery ings, cartographical in nature, often by Jayne Merkel If the results are less consistent dian in sdiool at Washington Market where layered one over the other and encased the direa, almost childlike paintings almost everyone else was from in Plexiglas. Underscoring these draw• he showed at Shafrazi, they are occa• TribeGi. We've had to fight our way ings, a series of reliefs emerged from sionally overwhelming and usually nonh through the Trade Center com• the pic-ture plane, exploring varied more successftd than most artist-archi• plex. So we actually look south — or aspeas of the design. Four models tect collaborations, which tend to sub• to Brooklyn." The Wheelwright chil• completed the display :uid emphasized Hadid's interest in public space, layer• vert the artist's statement to the archi• dren go to school in Brooklyn, at St. ing of function, and the movement of tect's — or vice versa. Clarke's walls, Ann's. "Now with Battery Park City transponation. clerestories, and vaulted ceilings almost there are quite a few people here, always enhance the architectural spaces although that has a feeling that is sort On the back (west) wall, drav^ings and the)' inhabit, and not only because of of separated as well. Before it was built studies for the Cardiff Opera HoiLse the glorious colored light. The artist's there were very few people down here depicted the architea's most recent strong, graphic, abstraa, but symbolic other than the people in our building." work. A meticulous model expressed langiuige lends itself to large scale and Hadid's gift for the delicate manipula• To some extent every building in intense color, but the vs-ay architectural tion of light and volume. Ftmaion Manhattan is an island. Around Wall space is experienced rarely provides the was more clearly described here, less Street, the islands may be close togeth• intense, quiet, personal encounter that gesmrally, and the geometty was a bit London Airport, Stansted; Sir Norman Foster, er but they can be surrounded by paintings command. Two exceptions more defined than in her previously architect; Brian CLirke. stained-glass mural impenetrable seas. are Derek Latham's 1987 renovation published work. Again, she presented of Joseph Paxton's Cavendish Arcade a series of paper reliefs as delicate and The term "Renaissance Man " does not in Derbyshire, England, where restrained as if she had replaced her quite describe him, since Brian Clarke Claike's intensely-colored barrel vault Zaha Hadid: Projects at calligrapher's brush with a surgeon's works in stained glass and oil on can• enlivens both the interiors and the scitlpel. A mural-sized, exploded view vas, not in fresco or tempera, and he nighttime skyline in the town, and Grand Central Station of the opera house, originally intended remains a painter even on an architec- for the cantilevered ceiling, dis• The Wall, a restrained, landscape-like j by Sarah L. Brown mral scde. But "Gothic Man" is an played against the waiting room wall, translucent mural in Nigel Coates's odd term. Most artisans of the Gothic Even though the dramatic cantilevered to the right of the exhibition. Cibrco restaurant in Tokyo of 1990, period, when the great historic stained- amopy came tumbling down on the where the anist's embellished glass windows were created, deferred Zaha Hadid exhibition the evenifig ITie Vitra Fire Station, the only built handwriting can l)e experienced at before the January 19 opening, project in the show, commanded the so completely to the glory of God, close range. Hadid's soaring avant-garde architec• south wall. A cantilevered model of King. Town, and the architectural ture had enough dynamism to hold its the station hovered in the far corner, whole of the Githedral that we don't Books and exliibitions QUI only own in what was left of the installa• emphasizing the motion and flow even call them artists, and we don't approximate the experience of archi- ^ tion. ITie small models and drawings inherent in Hadid's work. Aaual con- know their names. tectural space, though this book does managed to face off the pomp and stmction photographs of the firehouse provide a gotxl sense of the color, at Brian Clarke has made a name for symmetry of the enormous Grand hung below the model, showing some least when the spaces are pho himself, ;is a new book on his work, Central Station m;iin waiting room of the infrastrucmre nece&s;iry to build tographed under certain light condi• Btian Clarke, Architectural Artist space. the folded r(X)f Along with more tions. The Soho show attempted to minim;il paper reliefs and charged (lx)ndon: Academy Editions, 128 capmre the spirit of Clark's spaces widi In spite of the catiistrophe, the work in acrylic renderings, they explained the pages, 110 color illustrations, 10 x 12, large light boxes, drawings, and lighted the exhibition, sponsored by the intricacies of the angular design. $33.00 paper), and an exhibition at m(xiels. Together they define the Architectural League, was energetic the Tony ShafrazJ Gallery in Soho perimeters of Clarke's achievement. Ziiha Hadid described her effort in and expressive both in design and exe• (December 10, 1994, through Though he has an ability to speak designing the Cardiff Opera House as cution. Hadid's exquisitely rendered Fehmary4, 1995) attest. His ambition poignandy in purely visual terms, he is an attempt "to address simultaneoiLsly paintings have a surreal quality, is large enougli and his ego small (or ;ilso willing to provide accompani• the mutually exclusive paradigms of enhanced by the reverse perspective secure) enough to attempt collabora• ment. You cannot ask for much more and multiple views inspired by the urban design, to be both a monument tions with Arata Isozaki, Norman when two voices are speaking at once. Russian Suprematist painter Kasimir and a space...a strong figural landmark Foster, Zaha Hadid, and even Paul Malevich and by the bold urban against the waterfront." As Joseph McCartney. He also worked with visions of the Constmctivists. Giovannini said so succincdy, "Frank HOK on the International Airport Lloyd Wriglit's buildings intensify the Mosque in Riyadh, with SOM on the As one ascended the ramp, carpeted landscape, Hadid's intensify the city." Glaxo Pharmaceuucals Building in with the site plan of a housing project London, with Alsop & Storner on the Hadid designed for Vienna, acrylic S 10 AIA NEW YORK CHAPTER ARCHITECTURAL TOURIST The Phoenix Flaps: most luminous new piece of constmc• Thousand Oaks Civic Outer, which tion in the city is undoubtedly will open this summer. Then there is New Architecture in Hodgetts & Fung Design Associates" the Chino Center by Barton Myers, a Los Angeles Temporary Powell Library (or Towell, rococo riot of postmodern forms dea>- as it is known in college-collage par• rated by graphic designer April ly Aaron Betsky lance). This yellow-and-white striped Greinian with a sample case of colored tent, filled with enougli hardware to tiles, and the Escondido version, Landing at LAX, you might think that make any post-Archigram Rougli designed by Moore Ruble Yudell in this post-urban city remains a beacon Tech aficionado happy, might only be that firm's signature parade of sloped f high design. A brand new control up for a few years, but in the mean• roofs and cutout civic facades. •tower, designed by Kate Diamond, time it is breathing new life into the FAIA, atid decorated with a seduuu c term "cathedral of learning" with its In terms of sheer size, however, the necklace by artist Sheila Klein, glitters arched metal snids and soaring spaces. biggest cultural mecca of them all is over the airpon. Yet the last few years still downtown. Frank Gehry's Disney have not been gixxl for archiicctinv in 'Ilie tent can be foimd at UCLA, Hall remains a big hole in the ground, Los Angeles. TTie Iniilding boom of where campus ardiitea Duke Oakley but Mehrdad Yazxlani's redesign of the Gas Tower, Los Angeles, Richard Keating and die 1980s — when boutique archi- has been direaing a collegiate version Mark Taper Fonim h;is encased the SOM eas inserted S & M day-wear into the of the building IXKMII. In addition to mistake that used to make theater• )ff-the-rack boule\;irds and, (in Frank the Towell, there are new domis by going a pain in an elegant box of glass might think of as mainstream con• >hfy) the city launched the biggest Antoine PrediKk and Barton Myers, a and steel. Yazxlani, by the way, also stmction wonh a trip in post-boom tar the profession has seen since Louis new business school by Harry Cobb, designed the West HoUywood City Los Angeles. Richard Keating and IKilin — collapsed more than lour and a library by Frank Israel that is just Hall, a strip-and-clad job that takes the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's down• ^rs ago now. Things have been pret• starting construction. Uiifominately, place of the grander building that was town Gas Tower is probably the most ty empty at die beidi since then. The with the exception with the last work- to have been designed by Roger glamorous modernist skyscraper com• P^orphosLs- inspired specidadve office in-progress, the other buildings have Sherman and Ed Chang. pleted anywhere in the country in the uildings along Wilsliire Boulevard, been eviscerated by the stifling bureau• last decade, all the way from the float• Beyond such civic constmction, most nee the home of Columbia Savings, cracy that rules the campus. ing plane of its lobbies to the sinuous of which is now wrapping up, there is Wire only just fdling up. And planned curve of its silhouette. Right across the Much luckier is dd Poly Pomona, a only movement on the fringes of kyscrapers by Helmut Jahn, Michael street is Ricardo L^oretta's attempt to ItxDse collection of imdistinguished, if architecture, where it shades into com• jraves, and other members of the turn Los Angeles's central square into a nicely relaxed, m(xlernist buildings merce. Jon Jerde's acropolis of the et- iind fax-architecnire set remain on Mexican zocalo. And in the other that now seem to crowd around their credit card, Univetsal City Citywalk, is irplane napkins and cuding paper. direaion, you can tumble into the new beacon. Pretl(Kk's Administration a highly successfiil pastiche of post- massive monument to architeoural Building. This triangidar (in both plan jranted, you can srill eat in style, and modem fragments enlivened by special bravura without focus, Hardy and elevation) tower marks the pres• t's a lot easier to get a reser\'auon. In effects. If you really want w4iat Jerde Holzman Pfeiffer's Downtown Public ence of the campus from the nearby ddition to die Morphosis restaurants calls "whiz bang" design, however, you Library Addition. 72 Market Street, Kate Mantellini, highway and provides two speaacular iTiight check out Stc*ven Spielberg's mnd Angeli), there is Michael viewing platforms: a broad plaza that Dive! in Cenmry City, a restourant The second exclamation point of good Plotondi's new downtown Nicola, allows you to survey the exurban field masquerading as a submarine, or for architecmre in the city is buried and osh Schweitzer's Santa Monica all around and, if you bribe the appro• those seeking self-conscious culture, somewhat out of the way. Cruise order Grill, and a host of only some- priate guard, a "sky-viewing platform" the enigmatic treasury of fictional down the anonymous stretches of l^diat less hi^-concept, high-design at the top of the triangle, from which exhibitions. Cidver City's Museum of National Boulevard and you will find ateries. Unfortiuiatcly, this architec- you are supposed to watch the air• Jurassic Technology. In between these Eric Moss's ongoing projea for the ural hospitality does not, as in New planes lining up to land at LAX. higlis and lows is the Petersen Car Hayden Traa, an industrial section York, extend to hotels. The most styl- MiLseum, opposite the Los Angeles of CiJver City. TTiis light-tilled Predock also prtxluced one of the sh place to stay is probably the senii- County Mtiseum of An. where auto• exposition of stmcture and accretive series of cidmral centers that dot the novated w/r-castle, the Chateau motive culmre is fetishized with planning shows how the oldest far-flung, semi-urban agglomerations ^armont in West Hollywood. The experdy designed mise-en-schies. leftovers of the defense industry can of the Soudiland. lliere is his massive- ther new luxury hotels, such as the be transformed into new homes for ly abstraa freeway sign-building, the There are only two pieces of what one peninsida in Beverly Hills and the information elite. phutters in Santa Monica, are painlul- y ugly — enough to keep even the Inost weary traveler awake. The peverly Hills Hotel, which the Sidtan OPTION 1 f Bmnei had stripped dawn to its Temporary placement - CFA's total billing rate averages $15 to $35 per hour for lindershin before covering it with a entry to senior level staff TTiis price combines a fair market value for the temp's service lew and slighdy too-shrill pink coat, vill open again this summer. (architects compensation) and fair market value for our service (CFA fixed fee) Our service includes recmiring, candidate interviewing, reference checking, and credit (cash flow iuitably fed and .somewhat rested, you financing) on weekly payroll. Also, our accounting depanment administers project time an try to find what architecmre of the records, invoicing, accounts payable and collection. This allows for risk-free, flexible, ast few years the city has to offer. I project-based staffing on an as-needed basis only. vould advise going back to school, rhe universities are still working ofT" Consulting for Architects, Inc. Placement Services xind issues passed in the pre-Newt 12 East 33rd Street 9th Floor NYC 10016 (212) 532-4360 Fax 696-9128 lays when public building was not as iirty an idea as snifhng coke. The "The leader in architectural recruiting and staffing" OCULUS MARCH 1995 1 1 ARCHITECTURAL TOURIST Perhaps the most telling sign of die virtual dream factoiy rising, like the desert Southwest sparingly and elo• direcuon of architecmre in Los ever-changing ph(KMiix lx)s Angeles has quently. At night they appe;ir to glow Angeles is the likelihcxxl that Moss's proven itself to be, out of the ashes ot from within, especially in the slides he strategy might spread to nearby Playa ihc militar\ -iiidustrial complex. showed at the Urban (xnter on January 7 and in the d;i/zJing pho• Vista and take the place of one of the Am»i Beuky is aoator of ivrhitectiire a>ui grandest projects of 1980s. Designeil dfsigii at theStin Frandsio Museum of tographs that libenilly illustrate this by ;ui all-star te.im led by Andres MddtniArt. book — as many as 27 per pn)ject. Duany, Playa VLsta was intended to be Only eleven of Pred(Kk's 74 projects Classroom, laboratory, admisitration building, a village for 10,000 inhabit;uns, as well are featured. Another 18, including his CalPoly Pomona, Antoine Predock and Gensler as for thousands of of lice workers :uid and Associates Antoine Predock Architect entry to the competition for the South tens of thousands of sh»)ppers. Duany. Transept of St. John the Divine, are Plater Zyberk, Stefanos Polyzoides, in Person and Print discussed in bordedines of text and artfully as the artist Dan Flavin who Elizabeth Motile, Buzz Yudell, Laurie by Jayne Merkel shown in tiny pictures at the bononi hiLs made colored fluorescent bulbs his Olin, and all hiid it out in grids and of each page — somewhat conftising- malium. PredcKk's interpretation of building guidelines on the wedands This hauntingly Ix-autiful work ly, iis in some cases their relationships regional flavor manages to avoid hack• where Howiird Hughes once held sway demonstrates how architecture can be to the feamred projects above are not neyed symbolism and obvious diche, over his militar)' empire. The $10 bil• rooted in place but not confined to a dear. except perhaps in the Hotel Santa Fe lion project was approved last year, but place. "New Mexico has formed my at liuro Disney outside Paris, where the developer, the Miiguireniiomas experience in an all pervasive sense," Hie book design does prt)vide a thor• the literalism is intended. Partnership, may not be able to line up Antoine Predock, who now practices ough introduction to some buildings die financing. Now nimors say another in Los Angeles as well its Albuquerque, and more than a few glimpses of oth• Antoine Predock proved powerfully "drcuii team" of Jeffrey Katzenberg, begins his intrcxluction to this new ers (there are ten illustrations for St. and poetically, at a lectuie at the Barry DiUer, and David Geffen is talk• monograph on his work (New York: John's). But architeas will deplore the Urban Center and in this hook, the ing about mming the exisdng faaory Rizzoli, 224 pages, 300 illustrations, rare inclusion of plans. possibility of being regional and inter• buildings (induding architeas Roben 150 in color, 8 7: X 11, $60.00). national at the same nnie. Some Mangurian and Mary Ann Ray's Notable for his command of crisp and works, like the American Heritage live-work hideaway) into, what else, His spare, thick, expo.sed concrete clean but complex geometric forms, Center and the An Museum at the a new studio. Rather than a New stnicnires. punctured by slits, incised the architea orchestrates his buildings University of Wyoming at Laramie Traditionalist Utopia, we will ^t a windows, and txcasional passages of with light. Inspired by the desert land• even have extraterrestriiil qualities. glass wall, admit the sunlight of the scape, he manipulates colored light as •^l°?Co'es .^r^co^o^Ou^P^^ .,o^de. Blueprints » Mylors . 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The would like to help implement iiny of We had to keep in mind that even client \syon^ when you can't find the national organiziuion lobbies these efforts, or if you have ide.is on though the basebiill club was the gate or when you're at the train sta• Congress to protect quality-based how to increase the value of AIA client, it was not the end user — the tion looking for a cab. Tliere's a real selection of architects and promotes membership, please let the Chapter public was. And that public is a joy in designing for the public" legislation to eliminate fee limits for staff know. Participation on the v^^iole range of comnumity mem• Taylor's words about the public fedeial work. The National AIA al.so Associates or the Professional Practice bers, from those who want to sit in realm refleaed a sense of urgency. has l^egim an advertising pn>grani to committees or the Membership T.Lsk boxes to those who want to pay "We arc at a scary moment because promote the profession. Force is welcome. $1.50 and bring their own food." we have moved into a lime when die Jan Fr.mkina, director of design and numt>er of urban dwellers has been State and local chapters have lobbied planning for the Pennsylvania eclipsed by the number of suburban• the New York State legislature. The Private Interest, Avenue De\'elopment Corporation ites," Taylor said. "It's cmcial that we New York State Architec-tural PAC in Washington, D.C., spoke strongly think about wliat it is to be a city in recently led the fight to enact a Public Spaces in favor of better private projects. the twenty-first century." This statute-of-repose to prtivide relief by Kira Gould Hie bottom line will continue to rethinking for the next century is evi• from third-party lawsuits. Local chapter committees, through a vari• rule. Frankina said. As more govern• dent in a reccndy completed study "Use is a bi^er ety of aaivities, promote the value of ment subsidies imd other fimds dry for New Jersey Transit, which result• pan of design design and architecniral services to up private developmeiit will increase ed in a comprehensive handbook than image." said client groups as well as to the general in imponance. "Good design can that helps commimities plan to take Janet Marie public. make money." she said, "and finding advantage of the transit system. Smith, vice presi• more ways to make presen-ation pro• To address recent criticisms regard• dent of sports Taylor admitted that throughout the jects economically anractive will ing membership value, the AIA New facilities for TBS Nonheast Corridor project and oth• Jarift Matif Smith make more good projeas happen." York Chapter's Board of Directors is Properties and ers, there were many times when she ITie 22-block area that Frankina has taking several actions. The until recendy the vice president of was the only woniaji in large meet• fiacused on includes such projects as Professional Praaice Committee will planning and development for the ings, but she claimed she never felt Market Square, a retail-office-hous• take the responsibility of becoming a Baltimore Orioles. Smith and two disadvantaged by gender. "In die ing complex in an area that critics repository of information on work• other designers who took alternate workplace," she said, "people are liave long deemed unsuitable for men's compensation, disability bene• paths in the design worid — and people. You reward excellence." She housing. (The 700 market-level luiits fits, unemployment insurance, over• wound up in positions of influence was quick to point out that we are were snapped up in a matter of time pay, health insurance, and legal on luban sf)ace in their cities — never going to reach equality in gen• months.) The area also has sf>ecial i.ssues. Members, especiiiUy small discussed the intersection of private der or race simply by means of per• sites waiting for development: A firms, must have a clear source of de\elopment and public space, the centages and quotas. "I don't think vacant lot hosts a sculptiu-e garden information on practice issues. We importance of which will continue those kinds of requirements can do made fi-oni chain-link fence and exf)ect this committee will develop a to grow as public resources shrink. die job for us," she said. "Mentorship Pemia-Hedge. Chapter-ba.sed employment clearing• Journalist Susan Doubilet moderated is extremely imponant, but most of house. die Women in Arcliitecnire In NewYodc, all it is about giving young people a Committee pajiel on January 23. Jeanne Giordano, chance. If I've accomplished any• The Associates Qjmniittee is de\'el- director of the thing it is because people gave me a In the case of die Orioles, Smidi was oping the means to assist young Grand Central chance to do so." able to examine the benefits of an architeas (Associate members) with Terminal urban site for Camden Yards. The Kim Gould, a muknt at the Parsons licensing and registration. It is con• k1Developmen t resulting ballpark, executed by ff-adiuiteprogtwn in afvhitectut-e and sidering an infoniiation package and Office, is helping design criticistn, ivorks as an editor at practice sessions for the exam. Both HOK. blends commercial interest, Uanne Giordano „ i i i j HOME magazine. die Associates and the Professional public space, and landmark ud>an to get the build• Praaice Committee intend to devel• fabric. "Almost everything except the ing back as a public space," she said. op a strategies to bring AIA influence field has an alternate fimction," After a number of liigh-revenue Membership Connections to bear on NCARB policy. Smidi said. "The area around the advenisements were removed from by Geoffrey Dobon^AIA Recendy many AIA members have been asking the timeless (and timely) OPTION 2 question, "What's in it for me?" Temp to Perm placement - To convert a CFA hourly employee to Many of us take one look at our dues your payroll, CFA charges a fixed fee of $2,000 any time between bill each January and question the value of AIA membership. three and six months, OR no fee after six months. Many CFA clients exercise this option after a successful trial period, or when project 'ITiere aie real benefits of AIA mem• loads increase. bership. National benefits include subscriptions to Architecture-axx^. AIArchitect, publications that dissem• inate information and d(Kument ser• Consulting for Architects, Inc. Placement Services vices. AIA 0«//>/<'provides access to 12 East 33rd Street 9th Floor NYC 10016 (212) 532-4360 Fax 696-9128 information via computer. And "The leader in architectural recruiting and staffing" OCULUS MARCH 1995 13 AROUND THE CHAPTER the rerminal as restoration eflbns er by Arts & Crafts Tours. Elaine Simply the Best began a kw years ago, the terminal Hirschl Ellis hits organized four pro• Housing: Understanding faced a budget shoruige. I "he solution grams that will include visiting pri• by William Prevatel, AIA What Works has been improvement of public vate homes ajid collecuons in die Chair, Computer Applications spaces sudi as the original main wait• British c()unrr)'side under the guid• Committee by Kira Gould ing room for events and exhibitions. ance of experts. Chapter members In the 1950s, there were rouglily "We had an NHL event here, and are eligible for a ten percent di.scount; The Computer Applications 200,000 SRO units in New York have had bazaars put on by South contaa the organization at 110 Coniminee has arranged for the Cit)'. Now diere are approximately Afr ican and Mexican oi^anizations," Riverside Drive, New York. New coming year's meetings to be held at 40,000 — figiu-es diat correlate with she said. (The Architectural League's York 10024, 362-0761. the offices of firms that continue to the number of people living on die Zahn Hadid exhibition took place demonstrate the best use of comput• streets. The explanation behind this there in Januar)' imd I'ebruary •The 1995 Bard Awards for ers in architectural praaice. Each ses• statistic is the faa diat for the past [seep. 10].) Excellence in Architecture and sion will offer a critical overview of a three decades, it lias been illegal to Ufban Design will be presented on firm's hardvv^re, operating system, operate for-profit SROs. This year, Miirch 22 at the National Arts Club, and graphics application, as well as a the Housing Comminee is taking a 15 Gramercy Park South at 5:00 pm. tour of the offices. Meetings will take Chapter Notes look at these and other related issues, llie awards ceremony will include a place on the second Tuesday of each widi an eye toward assembling a by Kira Gould cocktail reception hononng the win• month at 6 pm. ners. Tickets for the cocktail recep• panel in the fall to exiimine illegal •Elected to serve on the Chapter's tion are $60. For more information, This year's lineup will include visits SROs, SRO conversions, and new Nominating Committee were (in contact Jane McCarthy at 254-1329. to Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, a)nstruction. alphabetical order): Harold Buttrick, Robert A. M. Stem Architea, At the first meeting on January 9, FAIA; Mary Jean Eastman. AIA; •The AIA New Yoik Chapter Phillips Janson Group, Fox & Fowie members heard from David Chapin, Sidne)' Shelov. FAIA; Bartholomew Learning By Design:NY Committee Architeas, Davis, Brody 6c professor of environmental psycholo• Voorsanger, FAIA; and Roberta is continuing its collaboration with Associates, Buttrick White & Burtis, gy — the study of how people's Washington, AIA. The Nominating die Cooper-Hewin Museum in the New School, Richard Damier actions are affeaed by built and Committee began its work in developing "A Qty of Neigliborlioods" Architea. Gensler and Associates, unbuilt space — at the Graduate February, and the resulting slate will workshops in which architeos and and Miichell-Giurgola Architects. School of the City University of New be mailed to members prior to the teachers explore specific neighbor• The Cbmputer Applications York. Chapin, who believes that annual meeting, scheduled for hoods and develop dassiioom exercis• Committee would like to thank last housing is a basic right of all Thursday, June 29. es based on the resources of die physical environment that students year's host fimis and theii lepresenta- Americans, specified three factors he •The 1994 Arnokl W. Brunner experience in their daily lives. The tives; the New School's considers cmcial to the success of Grant has been awarded to John next workshop series will focus on Environmental Simulation Lab affordable housing: a democratic Loomis, AIA, and Cameron McNall. East Harlem, and will consist of (Percr Bochek); Kohn Pedersen Fox stmcmre; social support fimctions, Loomis will receive $10,000 to docu• three Friday evening lectures, each (Tomas Hernandez); Perkins & such as community rooms and ment and evaluate Paris s Hotel followed by a Saturday hands-on Will/Russo Sonder (Gary Holder); "defensible spaces"; and a mix of ages Industriel program and demonstrate workshop. The dates are March 10 Swanke Hayden Connell (Myron and income groups. A single-user or , its relevance to the formulation of an and 11, March 24 and 25, and April Rosmarin); Skidmore, Owings & segregated a)mniunity of any type ^ urban industriitl policy for New York 7 and 8. Strategies for teadiing archi- Merrill (Yangwei Yee); Hardy becomes a gherto, he said — before City. Cameron McNall, who teaure will be shared in a series of Holzman Pfeiffer (James Brogan); the 19')0s, public housing was typi- received a portion of the Brimner discussions and urban walks. Polshek and Partners (Casey Chan); ciilly more successfij because a mix grant in 1993, will receive another Be>'er Blinder Belle (Michael Gilroy); existed. $5,000 to continue his work on a Keynote sfieakers will be Hetlie Richard Meier & Partners (Robert study of liglit in Rome widi the use Worle)' and Luis Aponte-Pares on Lewis); Hellmiuh, Obata & Chapin emphasized the importance of time-lapse films. He intends to "TTic Experience of Place " (March Kassabauni (Yuval Brisker); and of community and neiglibodiood in edit and print film and video copies 10); R;iymond Plimiey on "An Gwathmey Siegel & Associates creating a sense of psychologiad well- of the study at its completion. Histoi ic Overview of East Harlem" (Elizabedi Skowronek). being. In many public housing (March 24); and Eddie Baca. processes now, an applicant's name is •Lenore M. Lucey, FAIA, has been Yolanda Sanchez, Sally Yamiolinsky, A special meeting on "Leasing vs. moved to the bottom of the list if he promoted to vice president of busi• and Dr. Ernest Dmcker on Purchasing Computer Etjuipment" or she refiises housing that's offered, ness development of Lehrer "Exploring the Community: with guest speaker Donald B. even if it is far from that applioint's McGovern Bovis, an industry leader Designing for Change" (April 7). Kahaner, administrative partner, neigliborhood or job. Committee in constmaion management ser• Architects and designers who are David Beidon & Co., LLP, will be diair Mark Ginsberg Siiid that diese vices, which is currently managing interested in part-time teaching at held on 'ITiursday, Mardi 23, at issues, plus a nimiber of planned vis• the constmction of the 1996 elementary and high school levels arc 6:00 pm. at David Berdon & Co., its to existing SRO facilities, will help Olympic Games facilities in Atlanta. ena)urage to artend. To register, LLP, 415 Madison Avenue, tenth detemiine die focus of the panel in Lucey's more than 30 years of experi• phone the Education Department floor (between 48di and 49di the fall. ence include serving as executive at Cooper-Hewitt, 860-6977 or streets). Please RSVP to 'llialia Zedin director of the AIA New York 860-6321. For more information, at David Berdon & Co., LLP, Chapter for se\'en )'ears. aiU Linda Yowell, AIA, at 929-3737. 832-0400. •Members who are interested in ver• nacular aichitecture, plaiming issues, THE INTEGRA GROUP INSTITUTE OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION GRAPHIC DETAILS and die art and design of the English 432 Sixth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 112]$ 141 Willougliby Street 11th Floor 180 Varick Street 718-499-7457 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Arts and Crafts movement will want New York, NY Complete solutions for Softwore, Telephone: 718-855-3661 to learn more about tours put togeth• 212-255-3000 Systems and Training. 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