Since it opened this past September, more than one million visitors have passed through Michael Arad and Peter Walker’s 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero; a Wall Street Journal article on regional minimalism noted Deborah Berke’s influential residential work in New England; on the latest episode of Citywide, Ken Fisher interviews Manhattan Media CEO and first-in-the-ring NYC mayoral candidate Tom Allon; Anthony Flint appeared on the Callie Crosby Show to discuss the redevelopment of the former Filene’s Basement site in Boston; Beth Greenberg, who leads the Dattner Architects team working on Manhattan’s 7-train extension, spoke to ENR New York [PDF] about the project (which, Inhabitat reports, is ahead of schedule and under budget); Gothamist got a peek inside the construction site for the new Fulton Street Transit Center, which is managed by Gregory Haley; Next American City Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind cited Olympia Kazi’s success in establishing the Van Alen Bookstore as a social anchor for New York’s urban design community as a chief inspiration for NAC’s new Storefront for Urban Innovation in Philadelphia; Hugh Pearman raved about Daniel Libeskind’s expansion of the Military History Museum in Dresden (pictured at left) in Architectural Record; John Palmieri’s CRDA launched the website Revitalize Atlantic City to encourage public participation in the Tourism District Master Plan process; Artforum reviewed the V&A’s Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, which features the work of Robert A.M. Stern and Patrons Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown; and new renderings were released of the 8 Washington development on the San Francisco waterfront, featuring landscapes by Peter Walker.
Fellows’ Work on 9/11 Memorial Highlighted
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Just four months shy of its highly-anticipated opening this fall, Reflecting Absence, the September 11th memorial designed for Ground Zero by Fellows Michael Arad and Peter Walker received an extensive preview in the Architect’s Newspaper. Says Arad in the article, which also looks at Fellow Daniel Libeskind’s master plan for the World Trade Center site and Fellow Craig Dykers’ design for the museum going up next to the memorial, “I don’t think you can force understanding or an epiphany on anyone, but you can create that space that allows people to have their own epiphanies.” The memorial was also visited by the Seattle Times, which took an in-depth look at the mechanics behind Arad’s massive waterfalls.
Three New Fellows
Saturday, June 19th, 2010We’d like to introduce three new Fellows to the Institute: Michael Arad, of Handel Architects, whose “Reflecting Absence” was selected as the winning design in the World Trade Center Memorial competition, Matthew Berman, a partner at Workshop/APD, and Deborah Grossberg Katz, a designer at Interface Studio Architects and current lecturer at Penn Design. We’re very excited to have them on board!
