Imagining Ground Zero: The Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site (Architectural Record Book)

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Imagining Ground Zero: The Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site (Architectural Record Book)
Suzanne Stephens , and Ian Luna
Manufacturer: Rizzoli International Publications
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Release Date: 2004-10-01

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Spurred by grief, hope and pragmatism, architects, artists and others have envisioned myriad new looks for the site of America's greatest devastation. Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site compactly yet vividly documents more than 100 proposals that range from the utilitarian to the Utopian. Drawings and models by world-famous architects (including Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaus and Bernard Tschumi) rub shoulders with work by obscure firms. The book opens with a capsule history of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood, a chart showing the various entities that have jurisdiction over the 16-acre site and a description of the design process as of Spring 2004. Proposals of finalists in the official juried competition are represented by clusters of photographs and succinct descriptions. The winning proposal for the memorial (Michael Arad and Peter Walker's "Reflecting Absence") and Daniel Libeskind's winning site plan are allotted more space, with brief summaries of the architects' various revisions and major critiques by the architectural press. Imagining Ground Zero also offers a sampling of entries to contests sponsored by The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine and Max Protech (an art gallery), as well as submissions received by other outlets, including the professional journal Architectural Record. Included are proposals for the master plan, the memorial and a transportation hub, as well as a few designs intended primarily as political commentaries. Grouped together, the entries' similarities become especially noticeable (for example, towers that entwine or otherwise abut one another). Lucid, attractively designed and copiously illustrated with 252 color photographs, the book offers a concise visual history of the most extensive design competition of our times. However, the lack of an index of participating architects makes Imagining Ground Zero less useful as a reference book. —Cathy Curtis

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The most highly publicized building renewal process in the world today-and the most significant survey of competing architecture designs since the international design competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower in 1922-is for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. It has inspired a multitude of designs and has engaged architects on a global scale in the re-imagining of the vacant 16-acre site.
Published in conjunction with Architectural Record, the most important architecture journal in the United States, Imagining Ground Zero documents not only the various competitions sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation but also the informal proposals sponsored by the New York Times, New York Magazine, and the exhibition at Max Protetch Gallery, as well as a selection from thousands of schemes submitted independently for the World Trade Center site and Memorial.
Among the key figures in contemporary architecture whose work is featured here are Coop Himmelblau, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Charles Gwathmey, Zaha Hadid, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, Richard Meier, Eric Owen Moss, David Rockwell, Lindy Roy, Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, Rafael Viñoly, and many others. With its exhaustive approach to these myriad voices in the discourse surrounding the World Trade Center site, Imagining Ground Zero is destined to become the canonical reference for this unprecedented event in world architecture.

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Copiously illustrated in color, beautiful album .......2005-07-11

Everything you need to see about the design proposals for the WTC site. It provides the visual aspect, that combined with "Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York" (ISBN: 1400060176), presents a comprehensive picture of who, what and when. Hundreds of illustrations showing also tech. details are beautifully printed in color on glossy paper on a very high level. They reveal brutally the shortcomings of proposals including the winning one and its evolution from the unrealistic wish that could not have been built at a reasonable cost (incl. the grim pit and gigantic free standing, enormously expensive spire for... coffee drinkers and directly in front of office tower windows) to its more feasible shape and surrounding changed (by others) so much that the overall plan stops resembling the winning proposal, as if the award was only a pretext to install the predetermined winner, and to have the actual planning done by others.
CONTENTS:
7 Preface
9 Foreword
11 Time Line
12 Introduction
26 Official Proposals
32 Freedom Tower
36 Memorial Competition
48 World Trade Center Transportation Hub
52 Innovative Design Study
94 First Round in the Planning Process
104 Press-Generated Proposals
107 New York limes Magazine Proposals
119 New York Magazine Proposals
132 Max Protetch Invitational Exhibition
186 Independent Submissions
222 Bibliography
223 Acknowledgments
224 Illustration Credits

Comprehensive Design Solutions.......2004-10-17

The architectural designs for the Ground Zero space were imaginative and inspiring. This book treats the various solutions comprehensively and respectfully. The solutions fell into 3 catagories, a memorial for the greatest American tragedy since Pearl Harbor, a huge transportation hub, and the rebuilding of office, retail and residential space. This book displays unofficial and unrequested designs to each or all solutions. A favorite was Hani Rashid and Lisa Anne Couture's skyscraper which reminds one of interlocking links of chain, and therefore conveys a feeling of security. The memorial should be at or near street level to maximize public viewing, so the ones that were many feet underground were not appealing.
S E Campbell

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Recreate the unmistakable style of Art Nouveau with 20 stunning glass painting projects inspired by celebrated artists of the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau period.

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Each project is detailed using step-by-step instructions and photography with a styled picture of the finished piece providing inspiration and further guidance. An extensive motif library provides templates for the designs, ideal for the beginner, and more experienced glass painters will love the challenge of the more complicated designs. Hints and tips are even given for adapting the motifs to suit any project.

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A highly recommended do-it-yourself hobby guide.......2003-10-08

Glass painting experts Alan Gear and Barry Freestone effectively collaborate in Art Nouveau Glass Painting to offer aspiring glass painters twenty superbly presented, step-by-step projects in glass-painting that are vividly attractive yet simple to finish. Full color photographs combine with detailed instructions for crafting a mosaic-effect mirror, a frosted thistle vase, and iridescent lily card, and more, comprise this fun, specialized, hands-on arts craft and highly recommended do-it-yourself hobby guide.

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The best way to get the cash—CD-ROM included.

With this comprehensive guide, individuals as well as grant seekers for companies/organizations will learn each step of the grant writing process, including how to determine who can receive a grant and for what; find government, corporate, and foundation donors; create a budget; write a compelling proposal and solicit feedback; overcome obstacles, and more.
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Superb Resource.......2007-09-23

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I found the book in February. Three weeks later, I wrote my first grant, depending a great deal upon the advice, tips and forms and charts in the book. Two months later the check came in. The grant was approved.

I can't say enough good things about the book. I've always thought this genre of books was for total novices... which I was, when I started reading this book, but after talking with people who have applied for grants, I discovered this book had really educated me to the point I knew more than some of them.

Since then, I've been working with a part timer grant writer, helping me to apply for more grants. The book has helped me support my ideas-- even straightening out the consultant I'm working with, when it came to my rationale for funding overhead costs for one project.

I know at least three or four other colleagues have bought the book at my advice. I think anyone doing NGO non-profit work would benefit from reading the book and using the approaches it suggests to better understand the process of fund raising, how foundations operate and think, and how to create proposals that will persuade foundations to make contributions to support your work.

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A Terrific Resource With As Much or As Little Information as You Need!.......2007-01-28

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grant writing.......2005-09-19

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Un recurso menospreciado: la riqueza de los pobres: los pobres de Mexico podrian vivir como la clase media porque en conjunto tienen un fabuloso capital ... un negocio ): An article from: Contenido

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Title: Un recurso menospreciado: la riqueza de los pobres: los pobres de Mexico podrian vivir como la clase media porque en conjunto tienen un fabuloso capital de 315,000 millones de dolares. Unico problema: no pueden disponer de su propio dinero.(propiedad informal de bienes raices)(dificultades al querer iniciar un negocio )
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Date: April 1, 2002
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El negocio de bienes raíces en México
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Life at the sharp end, British style.......2007-07-31

"Armoured Guardsmen" is a very good war diary memoir of life at the sharp end by a tank troop (platoon) commander of the 1st (Armoured) Coldstream Guards in WW2. Most of the book is as written at the time, with insert commentary and clarification added frequently to add perspective from the vantage point of later experience. Being an elite unit, some of the author's experiences are different from those of others (like Bill Bellamy, "Troop Leader", writing about the same period with 7th Armoured Division Desert Rats). The Guards were somewhat favored. Descriptions and a few photos of their unique Typhoon 60lb. rocket rail installations will be helpful to scale modelers planning to replicate this.

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