It’s not often a developer can affect the lexicon, but this year Douglas Durst and the Durst Organization have helped do just that.
For the past 10 years, the giant hole next to West Street has been referred to as Ground Zero, a bitter reminder of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Read More
People (perhaps even we did at one time in our lives) like to point out how much Daniel Libeskind’s site plan has been abandoned, but today’s unveiling of the next three towers at Ground Zero shows there’s a lot of Danny left. Compare this after-dark rendering:
(Credit: Silverstein Properties and dbox)
… with Libeskind’s Read More
Hard out here for the Orthodox
Rafael Viñoly, the celebrated New York architect, is having a great run in a tough town by most architects’ standards.
He’s working on a host of coveted projects: the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the Bronx Criminal Court Complex and the CUNY School of Architecture. To say nothing of the buildings he’s built all over the world Read More
The response from the Freedom Center doesn’t rule out locating the museum elsewhere in Manhattan–or does it?
“We are deeply disappointed that the will could not be found to continue the development of the International Freedom Center at this hallowed site. It is the site for which the IFC was created—at the Lower Manhatttan Development Read More
The real estate world is still wiping a long weekend of sleep from its eyes. What Newsday architecture critic Justin Davidson sees in front of him is the city’s <a href="http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/brooklyn/nyc-rive0905,0,6282381.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-brooklyn$150 million plan to landscape the East River around Wall Street. He concludes: “Compared with the monstrous cost and difficulties of forcing towers, train stations, Read More
If Daniel Libeskind’s word is gold at Ground Zero, then the controversial International Freedom Center is going to get rich.
The earnest master planner has long since been cut out of the daily action, but he gets hauled in to bless each change to his acclaimed site plan. His assent, therefore, would most likely be Read More
If Daniel Libeskind’s word is gold at Ground Zero, then the controversial International Freedom Center is going to get rich.
The earnest master planner has long since been cut out of the daily action, but he gets hauled in to bless each change to his acclaimed site plan. His assent, therefore, would most likely be Read More
David Childs finally got his way at Ground Zero–muscling out any remaining Daniel Libeskind influence on the latest Freedom Tower revision–but he couldn’t hold on in Midtown.
At a press conference, outside, in the middle of the afternoon, without a shade tree in sight, Governor Pataki et. al. announced that the design Read More
Call it David Childs’ Freedom Tower from now on.
After Governor George Pataki, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and developer Larry Silverstein resolved to improve security at Ground Zero’s signature building last week by moving it away from the streets, Mr. Childs was left with the biggest job of all.
The architect handpicked by Mr. Silverstein Read More
