ri EL ARCH ITECT SN EWSPAPER 18 Jl.2.2005 NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM $3.95 MIRALLES AND TAGLIABUE'S LAST COLLABORATION 0 10-14 NAMED THE BEST BUILDING IN BRITAIN TAKING UP RESIDENCE DIRECTIONS IN URBAN HOUSING CO h- 05 LU REFLECTING II.. NEW POOL AND SKATING RINK FOR T THE LOUVRE FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK CON 08 WATER, ICE, AND ADS TALK BACK SOMETHING NICE 18 SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT Queens is set to become the city's new THAT '70S urban leisure hot spot with the construc• tion of a pool and ice-skating rink com• SHOW WINS STIRLING PRIZE plex in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. 03 EAVESDROP The $55 million stand-alone building 04 DRAWING BOARD houses the two indoor facilities. Funded 16 DIARY The new Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh— A scandal arose when costs shot up to by the city and borough and designed by 21 CLASSIFIEDS a building called one of the worst wastes of around £425 million after politicians asked Handel Architects in association with 22 MARKETPLACE public finances—has just received the 10'" for more space. It didn't help that the original Hom + Goldman Architects, the project Royal Institute of British Architect (RIBA) estimate was also hopelessly inaccurate. is located on the north side of the park Stirling Prize for best British building of the The winning competition entry intended to next to the Van Wyck Expressway, and year. It was designed by Catalan architect invoke upturned traditional Scottish boats, will open in Fall 2007. Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue, but after subsequent revisions and refine• The project was launched in 2000, put his partner and second wife. Miralles was ments, the design became more supple on hold after 9/11, and revived in early a respected figure who sprang to fame with and complex, and better for it. The entrance 2004, albeit modified to be a part of the his archery center for the 1992 Barcelona sequence—from the building's shallow city's 2012 Olympics bid. Olympics, and who was revered for his mar• vaulted entrance lobby, up an asymmetri• Though the city lost the bid to London, velous spidery drawings. He died after win• cal staircase to a vast debating chamber the complex will be completed anyway, ning the Edinburgh project, tragically young. with its downstand roof trusses—is superb• overseen by New York City's Economic Tagliabue was left to finish the project— ly handled. Externally the building is more Development Corporation (EDO, which dinners m thaarchitecture and also to dodge the brick-bats. continued on page 2 developed the continued on page 3 category (from left) Charles Renfror*^ Ricardo Scofidio, and Elizabeth Dlller. Despite extensive media coverage of the NEW HOCKEY FACILITY THE proposed (and reviled) FEMAvilles current• CENTERPIECE OF CITY'S DOWNTOWN ^ NATIONAL ly popping up in Hurricane Katrina's wake, REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT the mechanics of housing an estimated DESIGN AWARD 250,000 or more individuals have remained unclear. Engineering firms like Bechtel and WINNERS NAMED Fluor, both California-based, and Colorado- based CH2M Hill have been contracted to The 6"' Annual National Design Awards oversee the installment of these temporary gala, held at the Cooper-Hewitt, National A FEMA trailer yard in Purvis, Mississippi. villages. Each company is working in a dif• Design Museum on October 20, was ferent state—Bechtel in Mississippi, CH2M punctuated with a few surprises: FEMAVILLES DOWNSIZED in Alabama, and Fluor in Louisiana—as DEVILS DECAMP Laura Bush, the awards' honorary patron, contracted by FEMA. didn't show up (the crowd snickered when The companies, which each received con• TO NEWARK her name was mentioned) and graphic This Land tracts exceeding $100 million, are responsible design's enfant terrible Stefan Sagmeister for locating and planning the sites for On October 3, construction of a new venue bested 2x4 and Paula Scher of Pentagram between 200 and 300 temporary housing for the New Jersey Devils began in down• in the communications design category. units, as well as managing the infrastructure town Newark. The new arena will replace Okay, so the First Lady's absence wasn't IsYourLand and facilities of these continued on page 6 the hockey team's current home at such a big surprise, and Sagmeister's Continental Arena in the Meadowlands. win should not have been either, given Called simply Newark Arena (its name the fact that all the finalists—in the cate• will be put out to bid at a later date), the gories of architecture, fashion, product, 850,000-square-foot arena will include and, new this year, landscape and interior approximately 17,500 seats, a significant —should probably, at some point in their decrease from Continental Arena's 19,040 careers, win the nation's highest design capacity. The difference will be made up honor. with an increased number of revenue- Sagmeister was in fact a finalist for generating luxury suites (78 total). The the award in 2000. Architect Rick Joy arena will also feature a gourmet restau• was an architecture award finalist in rant overlooking the continued on page 2 2002, before winning continued on page 7 CO f\J 3 O LU THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER NOVEMBER 2, 2005 DEVILS DECAMP TO NEWARK CO In the run-up to next week's mayoral election, incumbent Michael R. continued from front page field, 750 television Diana Darling Bloomberg announced the expansion of his five-year housing plan. monitors dispersed around the facility, and COITORS O the latest in ice field technology. Cathy Lanq Ho I— New Housing Marketplace, which he initiated in 2003. His enhanced The project has been criticized by Repu• William Menkinq l-H housing plan promises to boost the city's target number of new blican gubernatorial candidate Douglas ART DIRICTOR affordable housing units from 65,000 to 164,000 over the next ten LU Forrester for its reliance on public funds. Martin Perrin years (the original plan only spanned five years)and to increase its Public money accounts for $210 million of SENIOR EDITOR Anne Guiney funding commitment from $3 billion to 7.5 billion, among many the arena's S310 million cost, with the Devils ASSOCIATE EDITOR other ambitions. These revised targets actually bring Bloomberg clos• picking up the difference. (By contrast, the Andrew Yang er to what his primary challenger, Bronx Borough President new $800 million stadium to be shared by PROJECTS EDITOR Fernando Ferrer, and housing advocates such as Housing First! have the New York Jets and New York Giants in Aaron Seward the Meadowlands is being paid for entirely recommended. DESIGN AND PRODUCTION by the football teams.) But according to Christine Korokl But how has housing in the city fared since Bloomberg took office? Newark Mayor Sharpe James, who has long EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS The election promises to be no contest—as of press time, polls show touted the arena as the cornerstone of the Gunnar Hand city's Downtown Core Development Project, Jaffer Kolb Bloomberg with a 28-point lead over Ferrer—but it's still worth look• the use of public funds is justified. Sited a Stephen Martin ing at some of the mayor's accomplishments measured against his few blocks from Newark's Penn Station, on EDITORIAL INTERN campaign promises. Rebecca Fuchs Mulberry Street between Edison and Lafayette, SALES AND MARKETINC DIRECTOR Certainly, residential construction has boomed in recent years—in the facility will accommodate Devils games Karen Begley fact, it's at a 32-year high. Property development throughout the five as well as other sports events, concerts, and boroughs has been buoyed by the city's vast rezoning plans and the activities that, James argues, will draw peo• CONTRIBUTORS simplification of permitting processes at the Department of ple into a part of town that is currently dead MARISA BARTOLUCCI/ALAN G.BRAKE/ after 6:00 p.m. Subsequent phases of the ARIC CHEN / DAVID D'ARCY / MURRAY FRASER / Buildings (DOB). Though Bloomberg opposes mandatory inclusion- Downtown Core Development Project call RICHARD INGERSOLL/JULIE V. lOVINE / JOE KERR/ ary zoning (the use of zoning to make housing developers include LIANE LEFAIVRE/LUIGI PRESTINENZA PUGLISI/ for a new hotel, offices for the Devils, a com• KESTER RATTENBURY/CLAY RISEN / units for people with low and moderate incomes)—a key difference munity center for the public, a new office D.GRAHAME SHANE / PETER SLATIN/ between him and Ferrer—affordable housing units are indeed being complex for the Newark Board of Education, KATSU TANAKA/GWEN WRIGHT/PETER ZELLNER added the market under Bloomberg's watch: According to the his and 4 million square feet of office, housing, EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD New Housing Market-place Progress Report 2005,28,550 units have and entertainment businesses, all within an PAOLA ANTONELLI/RAUL A. BARRENECHE/ ambitious five-year time period. M. CHRISTINE BOYER / PETER COOK / been funded, with 39,000 existing units being preserved. In August The exterior of the arena was designed by WHITNEY COX/ODILE DECO/TOM HANRAHAN/ the city released four RFPs on the last major remaining city-owned SARAH HERDA / REED KROLOFF/ CRAIG KONYK / Morris Adjmi Architects, whose collaboration JAYNE MERKEL/ LISA NAFTOLIN / SIGNE NIELSEN / land for 3,200 mixed-income units and it's currently working with with the late Aldo Rossi on the extension of HANS ULRICH OBRIST/ JOAN OCKMAN / the New York City Housing Authority to create 1,800 new units. The Scholastic, Inc.'s headquarters in SoHo was KYONG PARK/ANNE RIESELBACH/ Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) lauded for its use of modern elements in an TERENCE RILEY/KEN SAYLOR/MICHAEL SORKIN is busy too, preserving existing units and planning the increase of historic context.