NEW YORK, NY (AP).- The owners of the World Trade Center have nixed plans to cover the first 20 stories of its signature skyscraper with decorative glass after it broke in testing. The glass was expected to help 1 World Trade Center look more open at i…
Prismatic Glass Facade for World Trade Center Tower Scrapped After It Broke in Tests
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- The owners of the World Trade Center have nixed plans to cover the first 20 stories of its signature skyscraper with decorative glass after it broke in testing. The glass was expected to help 1 World Trade Center look more open at i…
Steven Holl Architects’ Horizontal Skyscraper Wins AIA Institute Honor Award
NEW YORK, NY.- The Horizontal Skyscraper is an innovative example of the large-scale, hybrid use building, which challenges the usual developer typologies. The building hovers above a tropical landscape, freeing it for public use and for a unique schem…
Architect for New York’s Ground Zero Skyscraper Working on Italian Bridge Project
ROME (AP).- Officials of a project to build a bridge linking the Italian mainland to Sicily say the architect for New York’s Ground Zero skyscraper is working on designs for a complex to be built on the Calabrian side of the span. Strait of Messina Bri…
Victoria and Albert Museum in London Acquires Rare Philip Johnson Drawing
NEW YORK, NY.- Out of the depths of a privately owned and previously unknown archive of drawings by the influential and always controversial postmodern architect Philip Johnson (1906-2005), The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London has acquired a …
Steven Holl Architects Presents Su Pietra at the Castle of Acaya in Lecce
LECCE, ITALY.- Steven Holl Architects presents Su Pietra, an exhibition of recent projects in China and Europe, which is being held at the Castle of Acaya in Lecce, Italy. The exhibition illustrates the design process of Steven Holl Architects, from co…