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Rebuild Them
The truth of what happened at the World Trade Center building site after 9-11 keeps trickling out. In my dreams, someday we will rebuild the forms of Yamasaki's original design, perhaps even a little bit taller. New defensive parameters...
Sky over WTC
Weather in LA is paradisal steady state. The movement of major systems operate to the north and south of SoCal as the planet moves west and the winds flow east, and therefore the skies over LA are an eddy...
Rebuild Them
1776 feet? Really?? It takes a Gawker to call out bullshit on a monumental architectural insult to intelligence. Here is their last paragraph: But when you wed yourself to symbolism so glib and cloying as that--you have to follow...
Rebuild Them
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Rebuild Them
Better this than the boondoggle: People who still think "The Freedom Tower" is a good name for the new WTC building? GROW UP. After the last eight years that really sounds like a bunch of 7th-graders came up with...
Jacques' Cri de C?ur
Fellow ChinaTown/LA artist Jacques de Beaufort has been ratcheting up a kind of manifesto recently, a heartfelt clarion call for the art world at large and a personal program that has promise to become a philosophic armature for his...
Less Than Zero at Ground Zero
Another article points up the fact that something terribly wrong is happening at the site where our 21st century was born. If they build the unfortunately cloying and insipid "Freedom Tower" by Daniel Libeskind, something terribly worse will happen...
Rebuild Them
Rebuild Them
Keep the structure and form, redesign the internal volumes to accomodate a memorial and a better urbanism for that part of Manhattan....
Rebuild Them!
Nicolai Ouroussof had a few incisive things to say about the World Trade Center Freedom Tower in the NYTimes today: ...the widely anticipated announcement that Gov. Eliot Spitzer will support the construction of the Freedom Tower may signal an...
Cirrus Monotypes
Here is a glimpse of a detail from one print of a group that numbers around 100 made at Cirrus Editions. I organized them by color and the formal arguments that compose them: blues, greens, reds, minimal, maximal... and...
To Live is to Struggle
Here's a good summary of what's happened since 9-11-01: Five years after Sept. 11, 2001, ground zero remains a 16-acre, 70-foot-deep hole in the heart of Lower Manhattan. High above it, a scaffolded bank building, contaminated during the attack,...
New and Improved
In the "be careful what you wish for" department: Trump slams Ground Zero plans May 19, 2005 From: Agence France-Presse Donald Trump Bold plan ... Donald Trump explains the virtues of his new towers / AFP NEW York property...
Passing Thoughts
I was reading a webpage that was making a strong case linking Saddam with 9-11. The pictures of the World Trade Center set me on a train of thought. Doesn't... it... just... piss... you... off? New York is lesser...
Parallel Cities Reflux
Shades of Parallel Cities! Years ago... eons ago, I came to the thought that a vision for architecture had to be predicated by a vision of the city. I was riveted on two indices of scale that frames the...
Saltz on the WTC
Jerry Saltz unloads on the WTC memorials in the Village Voice, on the new tower design and architects in general: September 11 is beyond words, buildings, and memorials. The eight finalists and Libeskind's plan are all examples of the corporate...
The Trade Center Tower Design
The World Trade Center Tower design was in the papers (this picture from the NYTimes, credit Jack Pottle/Esto), and I have a few thoughts I'd like to share with you in this blog... but not much time for a...
Kimmelman on the WTC
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: now that everyone agrees that the ground zero memorial finalists are a disappointment, there's only one thing to do. Throw them all out. You have the power to do so. Use it. This is...
WTC: Egyptoid
Ok, Ok... I just had to see what it would look like if I buffed it off a little, and made it simpler. Mass and stone. Heavy blocks, maybe it could be constructed out of cast cubic concrete and...
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