The simple, elegant design of the eight-acre memorial gracing the 16-acre World Trade Center site in some ways belies the complicated history of the redevelopment.
An old ticket booth and turnstiles were considered a less-than-dignified entrance to the historic 52-acre Brooklyn Botanic Garden that spreads out alongside Prospect Park.
The project team razed an aging brick wing of the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., to make way for a larger $296-million, state-of-the-art complex.
On the Brooklyn waterfront where war ships were made a century ago, a developer has taken a three-story, 9,400-sq-ft brick Italianate structure and joined it to a new glass-and-steel, 23,000-sq-ft wing to function as a combination cultural facility and museum.
Despite a diminished head count at its London-based headquarters, the global engineering firm Arup has opened overseas architecture offices for the first time in its 65-year history. Image courtesy Arup One of the firm’s current projects in China is Ding He Tower in Shenzhen. The three new offices, which were inaugurated in early April, are located in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China. Each employs about 15 architects and 12 engineers, many of them Chinese nationals, according to company spokeswoman Joanne Ronaldson. The firm's architecture arm, founded in 1963, is officially known as Arup Associates. Ronaldson declined to
Part of the reason that professor André Sorensen, an urban geographer at the University of Toronto, chose Japanese city planning in the early 1990s as his academic niche is that the topic had barely been explored at the time, at least in English. “Japan was the second-largest economy in the world, and there was almost nothing written about it,” says Sorensen, whose Ph.D. focused on Tokyo’s problematic sprawl and whose books have included 2004’s “The Making of Urban Japan.” Photo: Courtesy Of André Sorensen André Sorensen is the author of “The Making of Urban Japan.” From 1994 to 2002, Sorensen
Public libraries across the country are cutting employees and closing facilities, but the one that serves the borough of Queens, New York, is taking an opposite tack: It’s planning to open one of its largest branches to date, and it’s hired architect Steven Holl to design it. Image courtesy NYC Dept. of Housing, Preservation & Development In Queens, an industrial area is being transformed into the Hunters Point mixed-use district. Steven Holl has been commissioned to design a new library for the neighborhood. Photo courtesy Steven Holl Architects The city announced in July that it had chosen Holl to design