Our Fellows have been heavily involved in the reconstruction of Ground Zero–Michael Arad and Peter Walker designed the memorial, while Craig Dykers designed the adjacent museum pavilion, and Daniel Libeskind the master plan for the site. Reviews by Justin Davidson, Inga Saffron, and Christopher Hawthorne have appeared in advance of the memorial’s opening this September 11th. Libeskind’s role has also been the subject of some great coverage. Ethel Sheffer contributed an article, “Ground Zero a Decade Later,” to the most recent issue of Planning, Bloomberg Businessweek featured a cover story entitled “The Saving of Ground Zero,” and Architectural Record includes an extensive write-up on the site in their special feature “The Death and Life of a Great American City: New York 2001-2011.” Tomorrow, the Center for Architecture will host the conference Lower Manhattan Rising: Looking Toward 9/11/2021, which features an excellent line-up including Arad, Dykers, Libeskind, and several other Fellows: Rick Bell, Bruce Fowle, Ernest Hutton, Jack Nyman, and Donna Walcavage.
On Ground Zero
Wednesday, September 7th, 20115th Breakfast Club
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
(L to R) Olympia Kazi, Inga Saffron, Becky Quintal, Whasoon Lisa Lee, Jim Ballard
Inga Saffron, architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, chaired the fifth Breakfast Club discussion at the New York Center for Architecture. Check our Facebook page for pictures, and become a fan while you’re at it!
As per request, the following is a list of sites Ms. Saffron referenced in her presentation on Philadelphia:
Piazza at Schmidts, Erdy McHenry Architecture; American Lofts, Winka Dubbledam; The Murano, Solomon Cordwell Buenz; 10 Rittenhouse, Robert A.M. Stern Architects; 1706 Rittenhouse, Cope Linder; Symphony House, BLT Architects; Rag Flats, Thin Flats, Tim McDonald of Onion Flats Architects; Sheridan Street housing, Brian Phillips and Interface Studio Architects; New Martin Luther King houses, Torti Galllas; The $100K house, Interface Studio; 108 Arch Street, SHoP; Waterfront Square, WRT; Dockside, BLT; Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Handel Associates; Ayer Condos, Wesley Wei; Union Trust Steakhouse, Frank Furness, Paul Philipe Cret (original) and DAS Design; Domus; Radian, Erdy McHenry; The Hub; Drexel’s Millenium Tower, Erdy McHenry; Cira Centre, Pelli, et al.; Comcast tower, Robert A.M. Stern; Kimmel Center, Rafael Vinoly; Independence Mall, National Constitution Center, Henry Cobb
