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Orignial WTC scheme; Foster + Partners WTC2 seen second tower from left. Image © Silverstein Properties
A new report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that BIG may replace Foster + Partners to realize the World Trade Center 2 (WTC2) tower - the final tower planned to be built on Ground Zero. The 79-story tower, originally designed in 2006, was stalled due to the economic crash of 2008.
According to the report, 21st Century Fox and News Corp have tipped BIG to redesign the tower should they strike an agreement with project backers Silverstein Properties and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to move into the tower. If the deal goes through, the two companies would occupy nearly half of the building - enough to kickstart development.
March 03, 2015
Challenging the notion that beauty is subjective, Alain de Botton has made a case for attractive cities, believing that a city’s beauty is key to its success and citizens quality of life. The Swiss philosopher, author and founder of London s The School of Life believes that attractiveness is the primary reason why many choose to vacation to Paris, and not Frankfurt. We think beauty is subjective, and so no one should say anything about it, says Botton. It s a very understandable qualm, but it s also horribly useful to greedy property developers.”
So, what makes a city attractive? Find out Botton’s six points for beautiful cities, after the break.
Courtesy of Zaryadye Park
In late 2013, Diller Scofidio + Renfro won first prize in the international competition to design Zaryadye Park, Moscow s first new park in 50 years. The project is a headliner in a series of high-profile schemes that aim to improve the city s green space, including the renovation of Gorky Park and the recently revealed plans for the Moscow River. This article, originally published by The Calvert Journal
examines how DS+R s urban wilderness will impact the city.
In a 2010 interview, the critic and historian Grigory Revzin complained that Muscovites wishing to walk in parks and get pleasure from the city would have to come out into the streets before anything was done. Hoping that architects would respond to the problem, one of Revzin s suggestions was a park to replace the site of Hotel Rossiya, which had become overgrown since being abandoned in 2007. This wild area in the city centre was, in fact, a harbinger of what is to come: Zaryadye Park, Mos
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