The 93-year-old New York developer's retelling of his role in the World Trade Center's rebirth offers some real-estate insight, but avoids personal introspection.
From remembering those lost in the attack and rescue efforts to memorializing how New York came together to rebuild, RECORD recalls its coverage since 2001.
By the time Joshua Prince-Ramus was hired to design what is now called the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, Charcoalblue, a theater design firm with studios in New York and London, had already come up with a layout for the building's three performance venues.
Whitaker, with the help of students and the staff at Craig Whitaker Architects, undertook a months-long study of the planning issues that face potential World Trade Center designers before anything else can be done.
For those of us who live in the shadow of an empty sky, there is a particular duplication of mourning, for what was once and is now gone, but also for what is to come.
The architecture of Daniel Libeskind follows two distinct threads--the geometry employed in his Holocaust Memorials, and the geometry of those buildings whose purpose is life and regeneration. But is there a difference between the two types? And if not, does Libeskind's architecture make sense for the former site of the World Trade Center?
The performing arts center that was part of Daniel Libeskind’s original master plan for Ground Zero has come a step closer to being built, but at one-third of its original size.