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1. Architecture for Ground Zero: back to 6 new drawing boards

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
City planning -- New York, Urban renewal -- Planning, Public architecture -- Planning, Architectural design -- Competitions, World Trade Center Site (New York, New York) -- Planning
Published
2002

2. A gift of Vienna that skips schlag

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Skyscrapers -- Design and construction, Architectural design -- Criticism and interpretation, Vienna, Austria -- Buildings and facilities
Published
2002

6. How modern design remains faithtful to its context

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Skyscrapers -- Remodeling and renovation, International style (Architecture) -- Appreciation, Architects -- Works, New York, New York -- Buildings and facilities
Published
2000

8. The Guggenheim's East Side vision

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York -- Buildings and facilities, Museum buildings -- Design and construction, Architectural design -- Innovations, Architecture, Postmodern -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
2000

9. Two firms chosen to design East River tract

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Pei Cobb Freed and Partners -- Contracts, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill L.L.P. -- Contracts, Architectural firms -- Contracts, Real estate development -- New York, New York, New York -- Buildings and facilities
Published
2001

10. Iconoclastic Art Historian, Seeing the Old in the New

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

It was the Summer of Love. The carnival capers of the flower children could not have seemed more distant from the neo-Classical world of late-18th-century European art. Yet that same […]

Published
2007

11. Holy water

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Fountains -- History -- Religious aspects
Abstract

I thought you would like to know that the Trevi Fountain is running. Shall we catch it? I dare say this celebrated Roman attraction wouldn't mind being stopped, for its […]

Published
2006

12. The Secret History

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

'FOURTH floor! Men's lingerie!' So Henry Geldzahler, the great art curator, was heard to exclaim on emerging from the elevator at the opening of the Gallery of Modern Art in […]

Published
2006

13. Skyscraping Around the Urban World

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Skyscrapers -- Exhibitions, Tall buildings -- Exhibitions, Architectural design -- Exhibitions
Abstract

GET out your old Pan Am flight bags. London is calling. So are Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Chicago, Mexico City, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai and other fabled ports of the urban imagination. […]

Published
2004

15. Back to Basics: Twin Towers II

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

WHAT functions can we eliminate? What uses can we subtract? These seem to me among the most constructive questions that can be asked today about the planning of ground zero, […]

Published
2004

16. Big Shadows Of 1848: Intimations Of Modernity

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

You can say this for the folks at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: they're not afraid to raise audiences' expectations. So what if the museum habitually disappoints them? Cooper-Hewitt has become […]

Published
2004

17. The Library That Puts on Fishnets and Hits the Disco

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

AT a dark hour, Seattle's new Central Library is a blazing chandelier to swing your dreams upon. If an American city can erect a civic project as brave as this […]

Published
2004

18. Let Them Wear Silk: Decadence Before the Fall

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

'DANGEROUS LIAISONS,' a sumptuous display of 18th-century fashion and furniture on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, recasts the museum exhibition as a double-entendre. The show is more than […]

Published
2004

19. Air of Ambiguity Around a Vision of Harmony

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

IZHAR PATKIN'S art aspires to the condition of atmosphere. His work may look like a painting, a sculpture or an installation of rubber curtains stenciled with colorful scenes of cupids […]

Published
2004

20. Brooklyn's Radiant New Art Palace

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

LATERAL growth -- the social transformation of New York beyond Manhattan -- is likely to be the most important urban development in the city for the foreseeable future. This weekend, […]

Published
2004

21. You Say You Want an Evolution? O.K., Then Tweak

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

After a few false starts and some loud internal grumbling, the Lincoln Center Redevelopment Project has found itself a fine, mellow groove. What we've got here is the inverse of […]

Published
2004

22. After the Decay Of Decay, a New Modernity

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Decasia: The State of Decay (Motion picture) -- Morrison, Bill, A Constructive Madness (Motion picture) -- Ball, Tom -- Neff, Brian -- Kipnis, Jeffrey, Motion pictures -- Movie reviews
Abstract

For those who want a souvenir of cultural wreckage, 'Decasia: The State of Decay,' Bill Morrison's 67-minute montage of decomposing nitrate film, has just been released on DVD. Already a […]

Published
2004

23. An Iraqi-Born Woman Wins Pritzker Architecture Award

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

The Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid has been selected to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2004, considered the profession's highest honor. She is the first woman to receive it. The […]

Published
2004

24. An Architect at the Service Of a Cosmopolitan Ideal

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

Zaha Hadid is a woman and Iraqi-born, and her identity is news in its own right. It would not surprise me if the jury that has awarded Ms. Hadid this […]

Published
2004

25. Let the Design Sprint Begin

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

HERE are five scenes from the buffed-up city yet to come. Perhaps never to come, alas. Five architecture teams have prepared designs for an Olympic Village, to be in Long […]

Published
2004

26. For Lower Manhattan, tower offers a residential stairway to the sky

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
House construction -- Evaluation, House construction -- Standards
Abstract

Santiago Calatrava has designed a skyscraper with the buoyancy of a child's balloon. The design takes me back to 1966 and the helium-filled Mylar ''Silver Cloud'' sculptures that Andy Warhol [...]

Published
2004

27. Conjuring Histories at a Crucible of the Revolution

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

Robert A. M. Stern's new design for the National Center for the American Revolution at Valley Forge is a lovely surprise. Imagine Frank Lloyd Wright crossed with Peter Eisenman, and […]

Published
2004

28. Metaphors Rise In Harlem Sky

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

'Harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor,' the new architecture show at the Studio Museum in Harlem, cannot be recommended for those who are keen to avoid the topic of identity politics and […]

Published
2004

29. Glamorous Glass Gives 10 Columbus Circle a Look of Crystallized Noir

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill L.L.P. -- Officials and employees, Architects -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation -- Appreciation, Buildings -- Design and construction -- Materials -- Appreciation, Architectural firms -- Officials and employees -- Buildings and facilities, Architectural practice -- Officials and employees -- Buildings and facilities, New York, New York -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

It is good to see Skidmore, Owings & Merrill back in the business of piling up big chunks of quartz. Stone was never this firm's strength. Ten Columbus Circle does […]

Published
2004

30. PATH Station Becomes A Procession of Flight

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Company business planning, Contract agreement, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey -- Planning -- Contracts, New York, New York -- Buildings and facilities, World Trade Center Site (New York, New York) -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

An exorcism was held yesterday at the World Financial Center Winter Garden at Battery Park City. The spirit of diminished expectations that produced the Winter Garden and buildings like it […]

Published
2004

31. Strong Depth Of Emotion And No Frills In 2 Footprints

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Memorials -- Design and construction, World Trade Center Site (New York, New York) -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

Reflecting Absence is a plea for calm. Tranquillity has been in short supply in Lower Manhattan. Perhaps the city is ready to let this quality rise to the surface for […]

Published
2004

32. A Chance for Scholars to Assess Ground Zero's Historical Significance

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, Company business planning, Historic sites -- Evaluation, World Trade Center Site (New York, New York) -- Planning
Abstract

Architectural preservationists are coming to the rescue one more time. Thanks to these intrepid souls, the ground zero design process may shortly enter a new stage. Legitimacy, it might be […]

Published
2004

33. Jury Favors Two Finalists For Memorial At Attack Site

Author

Dunlap, David W. and Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

The jury that is to choose a design for the memorial at the World Trade Center site has narrowed its choices to two favorites, Garden of Lights and Passages of […]

Published
2003

34. The Buildings (and Plans) of the Year

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

1. WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, LOS ANGELES -- Just go. And be happy that you don't have to write about the most unreviewable building it's been my very great pleasure […]

Published
2003

35. Banner Year For Lost Opportunities

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

The biggest disappointment of the year has been the failure of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to protect the ground zero planning process from political interference. I refer not only […]

Published
2003

36. A Skyscraper Has a Chance To Be Nobler

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Skyscrapers -- Design and construction -- Innovations, Architects -- Innovations, Tall buildings -- Design and construction -- Innovations, World Trade Center Site (New York, New York) -- Design and construction
Abstract

The surprise of yesterday's unveiling is that in its present form Freedom Tower is much closer to being a piece of architecture than the public had any right to expect. […]

Published
2003

37. Uncertain Future for the Past's Treasures

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

Stranded! That's how I feel each time the World Monuments Fund releases its list of 100 most endangered sites. As if the present were a beach onto which every artifact […]

Published
2003

38. Courtside Seats to an Urban Garden

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

A Garden of Eden grows in Brooklyn. This one will have its own basketball team. Also, an arena surrounded by office towers; apartment buildings and shops; excellent public transportation; and, […]

Published
2003

39. A Building's Bold Spirit, Clad in Marble and Controversy

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

Let us now celebrate the aristocratic satisfaction of not pleasing. Huntington Hartford gave himself that pleasure when he commissioned Edward Durell Stone to design the Gallery of Modern Art (1964), […]

Published
2003

40. Amid Embellishment and Message, a Voice of Simplicity Cries to Be Heard

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Memorials -- Design and construction, Architects -- Innovations, New York, New York -- Buildings and facilities, World Trade Center Site (New York, New York) -- Design and construction
Abstract

Keep it simple. Eliminate inessentials. Cut the rhetoric. These are the principles that should be adhered to when considering ground zero. But for better or worse, we are living in […]

Published
2003

41. Lunchbox for Art: A New Museum

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Company business planning, New Museum of Contemporary Art -- Buildings and facilities -- Planning, Art museum architecture -- Criticism and interpretation, Art museums -- Design and construction
Abstract

The New Museum of Contemporary Art wants to build a seven-story bento box for art on the Bowery. Plans and models for this deftly composed lunch break of a building […]

Published
2003

42. When the Ultimate Monument Isn't a Building

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

LOUIS KAHN, the subject of a brilliant film portrait by his son, Nathaniel Kahn, is the ghost at the banquet that architecture has become since his death in 1974. As […]

Published
2003

43. Design Guidelines for Ground Zero Point More to Space City U.S.A

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Company business planning, Lower Manhattan Development Corp. -- Planning, World Trade Center Site (New York, New York) -- Planning -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

How did we end up in Houston? That is the burning question raised by a new set of design guidelines for the office towers at ground zero. True, we've got […]

Published
2003

44. In the Land Of the Free, Who Wears The Skirts?

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

ANDREW BOLTON knows how to put across the fluctuating relationship between difference and similarity, and what more can you ask for? The young British curator has woven a rich tapestry […]

Published
2003

45. Silver's Shiny Journey From Craft to Art

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Silverware -- Exhibitions, Precious metal products -- Exhibitions
Abstract

Silver is gold for the guilty. Or so you might conclude from the introduction to 'Viennese Silver,' the handsome new show at the Neue Galerie. At the start of the […]

Published
2003

46. A Moon Palace for the Hollywood Dream

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Music-halls -- Design and construction -- Evaluation, Public architecture -- Criticism and interpretation -- Appreciation, Architecture, Modern -- Criticism and interpretation -- Appreciation, Architectural design, Bunker Hill Steps, Los Angeles, California -- Design and construction -- History -- Appreciation, Los Angeles, California -- Buildings and facilities, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California -- Design and construction -- Appreciation
Abstract

Walt Disney Concert Hall, the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is a French curve in a city of T squares. The T squares are loving it madly. Why […]

Published
2003

47. Ship of Glass for Chelsea Waterfront

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Abstract

The proud city sails on. Frank Gehry has designed a New York headquarters for Barry Diller, the media and e-commerce mogul. The new building will be opposite the Chelsea Piers […]

Published
2003

48. A Building With a Song in Its Heart

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Illinois Institute of Technology -- Buildings and facilities, School grounds -- Buildings and facilities, Architecture, Modern -- Criticism and interpretation, Architectural design, Chicago, Illinois -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

Some great buildings allow you silence. Others give you song. The new McCormick Tribune Campus Center in Chicago got my fingers snapping. On my visit this weekend before Tuesday's dedication, […]

Published
2003

49. The Scrimmage of Old and New

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
Chicago Bears -- Buildings and facilities, Stadiums -- Design and construction -- Remodeling and renovation, Architectural design -- Remodeling and renovation
Abstract

The new football stadium at Soldier Field in Chicago is an uncannily accurate portrait of a great American city in changing times. Some Chicago lovers find the portrait less than […]

Published
2003

50. A Design Rethought, With Judgment Deferred

Author

Muschamp, Herbert

Subjects
City planning -- Political aspects -- Economic aspects -- Social aspects, Office buildings -- Design and construction -- New York -- Innovations, New York, New York -- Political aspects -- Buildings and facilities, World Trade Center Site (New York, New York) -- Design and construction
Abstract

Yesterday, in a presentation lasting less than an hour, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation unveiled Daniel Libeskind's 'Refined World Trade Center Site Master Plan.' The design will delight those who […]

Published
2003

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