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Inner Circle
We’re not actually in the Inner Circle and, frankly, we’re just grateful they’re letting us come Saturday night. So don’t expect us to reveal those top-secret jokes here. What we do know is that fancy...
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Childs Told To Straighten Out The Zero Mess
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...
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Slow and Steady Wins the …
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,...
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Embattled Libeskind Defends Controversial W.T.C. Museum
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,...
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Embattled Libeskind Defends Controversial W.T.C. Museum
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,...
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Bye, Bye, Summer
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...
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Withdrawal Pain
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...
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Life Getting Hot For Architect Rafael Viñoly
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...
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Tuesday: Everyone [em]Always[/em] Blames the Brooklyn Jews
Hard out here for the Orthodox NYU says Borough Park is the most crowded neighborhood in New York, on account of big Orthodox families squeezing into small houses. Meanwhile, prices are so high in...
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Plus Ca Change
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...
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Douglas Durst: Bernard H. Mendik Lifetime Leadership Recipient
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...
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Absurd and Elegant: Counting Grains of Rice with Marina Abramovic at Design...
“Technology is great but it’s also a dangerous thing,” the mystical Marina Abramovic told a group of fawning fans at the opening of the Design Miami fair yesterday. “We have to learn how we can gain...
View ArticleSilverstein Irks Those Libeskinds On Tower’s Fees
On June 2, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation will formally adopt plans for rebuilding at Ground Zero that will allow Tishman Construction to begin its assignment on the first stage of the...
View ArticleAs Muschamp Goes, Angry Adversaries Ready for Revenge
Herbert Muschamp, The New York Times ‘ architecture critic, is stepping down from his post much as he attained it: surrounded by applause. Twelve years ago, he was called the country’s next great...
View ArticleLess Than Zero: The Libeskinds Sue Silverstein
A mere 10 days after Governor George Pataki presided over an optimistic and buoyant ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center, Ground Zero master planner architect...
View ArticleHip-hoprisy
Sean (P. Diddy) Combs is not known for being at a loss for words. But the hip-hop impresario was speechless for several seconds when The Transom asked him about his own voting record at a press...
View ArticleGehry Tops Danny: Ground Zero Winner Scores Art Center
Daniel Libeskind has no buildings at Ground Zero to call his own. On Oct. 12, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced that architect Frank Gehry, of Bilbao fame, had won the competition...
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Five Cooper Union Trustees Resign Over Bitter College Tuition Battle
Last night, five Cooper Union trustees resigned from the 23-person board of the veteran East Village institution of higher learning: architect François De Menil, former board chairman and real estate...
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Zaha Hadid’s Soft Side
In the summer of 1972, I received a lucky break: a coveted scholarship to the prestigious Architectural Association (AA) in London at a time when the Conservative government had curtailed mandatory...
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These 6 Fashion Brands Show High End Home Collections at Salone del Mobile
Designers assemble this week in Milan for the Salone del Mobile design fair and vie for the attention of an expected 300,000 visitors. These fashion brands are earning plaudits before pop-ups even...
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