6 INTRODUCTION ALEXANDRA LANGE 10 WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART 16 THE HIGH LINE 22 HL23 26 10 HUDSON YARDS 30 VIA 57 WEST 36 THE NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING 40 THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM 46 7 BRYANT PARK 48 432 PARK AVENUE 52 ONE57 56 TIME WARNER CENTER 62 HEARST TOWER 66 LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 74 HAYDEN PLANETARIUM 78 170 AMSTERDAM 82 SUGAR HILL DEVELOPMENT 86 NORTHWEST CORNER BUILDING 90 JEROME L. GREENE SCIENCE CENTER 94 ROY AND DIANA VAGELOS EDUCATION CENTER 98 CAMPBELL SPORTS CENTER 102 VIA VERDE 104 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT FOUR FREEDOMS PARK 110 JANE’S CAROUSEL 114 BARCLAYS CENTER 120 LEFRAK CENTER AT LAKESIDE CONTENTS

124 SUNSET PARK MATERIAL RECOVERY FACILITY 130 NEW YORK BY GHERY 134 FULTON CENTER 140 56 LEONARD 144 SPRING STREET SALT SHED 148 165 CHARLES STREET 152 IAC BUILDING 156 100 ELEVENTH AVENUE 160 551 WEST 21ST STREET 162 ONE MADISON 166 THE NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY CENTER 170 41 COOPER SQUARE 174 51 ASTOR PLACE 178 10 BOND STREET 182 40 BOND 186 NEW MUSEUM 190 SPERONE WESTWATER GALLERY 192 BLUE RESIDENTIAL TOWER 196 ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER 200 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER 204 4 WORLD TRADE CENTER 208 NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL 214 NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL MUSEUM’S PAVILION 218 WORLD TRADE CENTER TRANSPORTATION HUB [THE OCULUS] 6 of offices, capped with a spectacular restaurant, the town-house-size floors wound wound floors town-house-size the restaurant, spectacular a with capped of offices, stories hundred one than rather Inside, bas-relief. ageometric like head-on, seen to be designed facade alloy bronze windowless largely afaceted, with stories, six ascant was It behemoths. m), aluminum-clad (396 1,300-foot-tall skyline-topping, Yamasaki’s Minoru than 11, different September on more have 2001, been not could the of Twin destruction Towers the since York’sbuilding New new as first heralded he structure The begun.” York ofNew 14, already has 2001. Rebuilding December “The wrote District,” Financial city’s the redeveloping for plans produce to officials state for waiting stop can “We District, two towers have been replaced by four, plus an Oculus and a memorial. amemorial. and Oculus by four, an plus replaced have been towers two District, Financial the In 9/11, rebuilding. since years the In tremendous York New seen has no. and yes, was answer The Zero? Ground at ruins gaping the by discombobulated York New for City, and temporarily architecture, for forward away represent it Could towers. by the represented determinism technological ofthe critique ahumanist to him seemed interior textured rich, dark, museum’s The audiences.” to modern aspiration—accessible “intimacy, companionship, Tsien’s was Billie and Tod “fireside” Williams architects at found Muschamp What Museum. Art Folk American ofthe collections homemade and handmade the around New York Times New architecture critic Herbert Muschamp on on Muschamp Herbert critic architecture

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218 WORLD TRADE CENTER TRANSPORTATION HUB [THE OCULUS] on the 15th anniversary of the the of 15th the on anniversary opened Oculus the of phase first The 11 attacks. September the in destroyed one original the to replace Hub Transportation Trade Center World the for site new this designing with tasked was Calatrava Santiago architect Spanish upward. attention draws and space indoor the fills Light sky. the into to soar about abird like looks Oculus the complex, Center Trade World the of midst the In 185 Greenwich Street 2016 Santiago Calatrava retail and dining. dining. and retail (7,246 for feet m) space of sq. square 78,000 provides and PATH the and train, lines subway eleven serves 2001. Oculus The 11, September of anniversary each on will it as close, and open can skylight That skylight. hundred-thirty-foot-long glass athree- at overhead merging outward, then and another one toward arch steel ribbed white of curtains two marble Italian white of floor aground From tragedy.

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