News
- WTC Cultural Buildings Announced
Posted by JoeVare,
20 Aug 2004
The LMDC has issued an RFP for
the South and North Cultural Buildings at the
World Trade Center. The North Building is at
the NW corner of Fulton and Greenwich Streets
and will house the Joyce Theatre and the Signature
Theatre. The South Building is at the SW corner
of Fulton and Greenwich Streets and will house
two museums, the Freedom Center and the Drawing
Center. The South Building shares the same block
with the WTC Site Memorial, one of its requirements
is to provide visual transparency and physical
access to the Memorial from the Fulton and Greenwich
Street intersection. For reference, the Santiago
Calatrava PATH Station is located at the SE
corner of Fulton and Greenwich, while the new
WTC 2 Tower (designed by either Norman Foster,
Fean Nouvel or Fuhmiko Maki) is at the NE Corner.
The Cultural Complex RFP requires separate proposals
for each building. The NY Times reported that
representatives from Diller, Scofidio + Renfro,
Grimshaw, Architectonica, Santiago Calatrava,
Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Enrique Norton, Bernard
Tschumi and Rafael Vinoly attended an LMDC Pre
Proposal Conference on 11 August.
The
RFP states the project schedule as:
2 Aug 2004 - RFP Issued
1 Sept 2004 - RFP responses due
15-21 Sept 2004 - Oral presentations by finalists
27 Sep 2004 - Architects chosen
31 Jan 2005 - Schematic Design complete
15 July 2005 - Design Development complete
15 Jan 2006 - Contract Documents complete
2009 - Buildings finished
 Click
here to learn more (and read the RFP for yourself)
Update
- WTC Cultural Buildings Announced
Posted
by JoeVare, 18 Sept 2004
The
NY Times is reporting that the following architects
were selected on the "short list"
to design the cultural buildings for the World
Trade Center.
Performing
Arts Center
Daniel Libeskind (Currently the architect of
the Master Plan)
Rafael Vinoly (Part of Think team that lost
to Libeskind)
Rem Koolhaas OMA
Polshek Partnership (up for both buildings)
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
Moshe Safdie (up for both buildings)
Enrique Norton and Hugh Hardy (Norton was on
the WTC Memorial Jury)
Schmidt, Hammer and Lassen
Frank Gehry (currently working on a 72 story
tower at Pace a few blocks from the WTC)
Bing Thom Architects
Museum
Complex
Shigeru Ban and Frei Otto (Part of Think team
that lost to Libeskind)
Polshek Partnership (up for both buildings)
Moshe Safdie (up for both buildings)
Snohetta
Pei Cobb Freed (designing the Goldman Sachs
Tower across the street from the Freedom Tower)
Robberecht en Daem
A
final selection for both buildings is expected
in October. This is not a design competition
but instead an extended interview and qualifications
review process.
Update
- WTC Cultural Buildings Announced
Posted
by JoeVare, 13 Oct 2004
The
Performing Arts Center will be designed by Frank
Gehry, the Museum Complex by Snøhetta.
The
Gehry pick for the Performing Arts Center is
not that much of a surprise. His firm is currently
working on multiple projects in New York, including
the all glass InterActive Corporation Headquarters
across from the Chelsea Piers, the massive Brooklyn
Nets project, a theatre project at BAM and a
rumored 72 story tower in Lower Manhattan at
Pace University, only a few blocks from the
World Trade Center site.
It
will be interesting to see what he proposes
for the site, on the same block as the Freedom
Tower/WTC 1 and diagonally across the street
from the much loved Santiago Calatrava PATH
Station.
If
the Gehry pick was expected, the Snøhetta
pick was not. It will be Snøhetta's first
building in the US after completing the Alexandria
Library in Egypt and winning the competition
for the new Oslo Opera House. The Museum Complex
is the more difficult site of the two, it is
in the same block as the memorial and will need
to act as a gateway to it as well as a complex
with its own identity.
Schematic
Design (and our first glimpse into the future)
is scheduled to be completed early next year.
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here to learn more from the always in trouble
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