Photo courtesy Studio Daniel Libeskind Although his design for a "Freedom Tower" was replaced by SOM¹s One WTC, Daniel Libeskind helped shape the rebuilding at the World Trade Center through his competition-winning master plan. RECORD editors Cathleen McGuigan, Clifford Pearson, and William Hanley interviewed Libeskind in his New York office overlooking the WTC site. Here are some excerpts from the conversation. On the special character of Ground Zero: This is now a site that has memory in it. This is a site where people perished. This is a site which forever has altered how we view New York and the
With a portfolio of widely praised projects, including Chicago’s Aqua Tower, to her credit, architect Jeanne Gang can now add “genius” to the list of accolades she has received for her work.
In 2004, when Santiago Calatrava unveiled his plans for the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, an 800,000-square-foot complex knitting together underground train lines, he explained his vision at a press conference by sketching an image of a bird taking flight.
Photo ' Michel Denanc' Related Links: Piano's Plans for Corbu Landmark Spark Debate Journalists, officials, and curious locals gathered last week at Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, to celebrate the opening of a quiet new visitors’ center and convent designed by Renzo Piano—a project that incited fierce debate when it was first announced in 2008. Opponents feared the addition would distract from the power of Corbusier's sculptural masterpiece. Piano, who attended the inauguration ceremony, which stretched from September 8–11, told RECORD that he has enhanced the 4.9-acre property by creating facilities that support
Last summer, Denver International Airport officials announced, with great fanfare, the selection of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava to design a $650 million expansion, including a 500-room hotel, public plaza, and commuter-rail station.
Image courtesy Silverstein Properties Photo ' Joe Woolhead Related Links: Death and Life of a Great American City New York After 9/11 On Wednesday, September 7, just days before the opening of the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, master planner Daniel Libeskind, developer Larry Silverstein, and a host of other officials gathered at 7 World Trade Center to report on construction progress at the site. Almost a decade after the terrorist attacks, Silverstein was visibly pleased to tell a room filled with international press that, after many starts and stops, “every part of
Rogers Marvel Architects is designing the new, 2,000-square-foot space, which is slated to open in early 2012. Photo ' Carl Yost The NYC Center for Architecture is expanding. AIA New York recently signed a 10-year lease for the ground floor and basement of 532 Laguardia Place, a neighboring five-story brick building with rental apartments on the upper floors. The new space will add 2,000 square feet'1,200 at street level and 800 below'to the center's existing 12,000 square feet, a 16 percent increase. Related Links: AIA Philly Opens a Center for Architecture Dallas Center for Architecture: Lighting AIA's Center for Architecture
More than three decades after its inception, this planned community in Lower Manhattan is nearly complete. Photo ' Michael S. Yamashita/National Geographic Stock The master plan for Battery Park City was created in 1979. More than three decades later, this 92-acre development in Lower Manhattan is almost finished. As Tropical Storm Irene roared toward New York last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave the order to evacuate Battery Park City (BPC), on the waterfront in Lower Manhattan. Now, as the development’s 13,000 residents make their way back, the largely unscathed neighborhood is about to pass a milestone. With two condominium towers
Photo ' Jenna M. McKnight 125th Street and Lenox Avenue. Click on slideshow button to view additional images. New additions to Harlem include the modern Parc Standard located on Frederick Douglass Boulevard. For much of the 20th century, private developers ignored Harlem, deterred by its high crime rate, profusion of subsidized housing, and long trek from Midtown. During the malaise of the 1970s, the city owned well over half of the real estate in this storied neighborhood, long regarded as the nation’s black cultural capital. Then, in the past decade, everything changed. As property values in other Manhattan districts soared,