Ground Zero’s New Performing Arts Center Is a Glowing Jewel 22 Years in the Making
In the months following the September 11 attacks, architects, planners, and developers began the formidable task of reimagining what a future World Trade Center site could hold. For two decades, a new cultural center was a cornerstone of that vision. But it wouldn’t be an easy path forward. Continue reading
A first look inside the dynamic, beautiful theater opening near the World Trade Center – Time Out New York
“Out of the ashes, something new, something wonderful has risen.” It’s impossible not to hear the echoes of 9/11 at the Perelman Performing Arts Center. The sound of water rushing into the memorial pools fills the air as guests walk up the front steps to the theater in the shadow of One… Continue reading
A Spectacular Marble Cube Rises at Ground Zero – The New York Times
The new Perelman Performing Arts Center is the most glamorous civic building to land in New York in years.The official ribbon cutting is on Wednesday. You may have noticed the building under construction if you were near the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan during the past year… Continue reading
PAC NYC: A new cultural center completes the renewal of New York’s ground zero | U.S. | EL PAÍS English
The latest addition to the cultural life of New York will also play a therapeutic and symbolic role: that of physically closing the wound of 9/11 in the skin of the city. The Perelman Performing Arts Center, also known as PAC NYC, opens its doors this September in… Continue reading
PAC NYC Announces Lenape Exhibit and New Civic Alliances
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) announced civic alliances in advance of opening later this month, as part of its mission to enrich the lives of New Yorkers through the arts. Executive Director Khady Kamara and Artistic Director Bill Rauch made the announcement as the group prepares… Continue reading
PAC NYC is a beacon of simplicity at Ground Zero | Financial Times
The World Trade Center site is a mess. All that discussion, all that discourse, the heart-rending and hand-wringing in the end resulted in a hypercommercial cluster of banal towers with the dazzling white monstrous rib cage of Santiago Calatrava’s transportation hub at its core.On the other… Continue reading
Final piece in the Ground Zero puzzle
World Trade Center’s new $500m arts venue, the Perelman Performing Arts Center, opens in September with performances by Laurie Anderson and others Source: Final piece in the Ground Zero puzzle… Continue reading
Architecture’s Second Looks, and Second Acts – The New York Times
In 2006, Joshua Ramus, a 36-year-old protégé of the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, left Koolhaas’s hugely influential firm, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, to go off on his own. In the kind of power play more typical of Hollywood talent agencies than architecture studios, he also took O.M.A.’s entire… Continue reading
moments in architecture: iwan baan major retrospective at VITRA
From October 21, 2023 to March 3, 2024, the VITRA Design Museum in Germany is launching the first major retrospective of Iwan Baan’s globally renowned oeuvre. The exhibition titled ‘Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture’ reflects the photographer’s broad scope by drawing up a panorama of global architecture in the early twenty-first… Continue reading
PIN–UP | DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO’s FIRST HOME IN THE HAMPTONS
“It’s like having dinner at Fallingwater,” the publicist tells the hostess who’s standing barefoot in the foyer of the weekend home she and her husband have just allowed a group of journalists to roam around in. Entirely devoid of right angles, the… Continue reading
The Story Behind This Modernist House Has as Many Twists and Turns as Its Architecture – WSJ
When it came to her houses, Julia Reyes Taubman, a Detroit-based philanthropist, photographer and collector, followed her gut, however edgy the results. “She had a fantastically educated but also madcap eye,” says Michael Lewis, the Paris-based interior designer who worked with her on several homes. Julie—as… Continue reading
SO-IL, a new condominium in New York | Abitare
In New York, the SO-IL firm has designed a condominium open to the city that has many common spaces. A bold experiment, but a successful one Source: SO-IL, a new condominium in New York | Abitare… Continue reading