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7 wtc silverstein: "pull it"
city reshaping building codes to u.s. model
the twin towers were never required to subscribe to nyc building and fire codes since they were port authority projects. likewise the (so-called) freedom tower.
"If you wanted to build a new library downtown somewhere, Rem Koolhaas is probably the last architect you would think to hire. For years, Koolhaas has been ranting about how traditional cities don’t matte anymore, and how the rise of new technologies has made public space obsolete, and how when people leave their houses the only thing the want to do is shop. His firm, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, which is based in Rotterdam, wasn’t on the original list of architects being considered for a new library in Seattle, but one day in 1999 Koolhaas’ partner, Joshua Ramus, who comes from Seattle, got a phone call from his mother saying she had read in the local newspaper that any architect who wanted to be considered should show up the next day for a briefing. Ramus rushed to the airport, flew to Seattle, an eventually the firm got the job."
oh great, someone is bidding against me for these four drinking images.
the nyt magazine 2004 architecture issue.
(lets play it safe and focus on landscape architecture)
Insanely great, or just good enough?
Apple are pursuing perfection, but should they be?
via core77
the day after tomorrow
"When Gehry pulled the covering off the [World Cup of Hockey championship] trophy, it was like someone had tugged the burlap bag off the Elephant Man."
"When the trophy was unveiled, the reaction was dead silence."
designboom
model homes from the modernist movement
Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Hans Scharoun and Le Corbusier are just a few of the architects who designed parts of a model housing settlement for a 1927 exhibition called "The Dwelling," which aimed to be a platform for the nascent New Construction movement.
godsell on hotseat
celebrities at their worst
nyc-rv
kenny g via cheater slicks
ab-pre-fab time
end of the century