THE ARCHITECTSNEWSPAPER 12 7.13.2005 NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WWW.ARCHPAPER.COM $3.95 IJATION of IRAQ, 2 S CIRCLE, AND CYCLORAMA C S 05 MAKE THE WORLD MO D'S LIST GUGGENHEIM GOES UP 08 CONTENT SORKIN SOUNDS OFF ON STADIA 11 WHAT'S ART GOT TO DO WITH IT? 03 EAVESDROP 12 DIARY 15 CLASSIFIEDS Cyclorama Center in Gettysburg by Richard Modern architecture looms large on the FREEDOM TOWER REDESIGN World Monuments Fund's (WMF) 2006 Neutra (1958-1961) FAILS TO IMPRESS SUPREME COURT OKAYS watch list of the 100 most endangered sites Cyclorama Center, 2 Columbus Circle, 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 Edward Durell Stone's building at Beyond calling attention to endangered Center, a tower he designed in 2001 for a 2 Cx)lumbus Circle in New York (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 United States 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 MANHATTAN'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 Ground Zero. 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 THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER JULY 13. 2005 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 New York City 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.