BOOKS by Philip Nobel

Lot/Ek: Urban Scan more books like this

by Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano, Philip Nobel (Introduction by)

The New York-based architectural firm LOT/EK (pronounced "low-tech") has made a distinctive mark on the architectural landscape through a series of seemingly whimsical projects that make a point of using prefabricated industrial materials in unexpected ways. In their hands, a shipping container can be transformed into a mobile working unit, a ...

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Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero more books like this

by Philip Nobel

Tracing the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site from graveyard to playground for high design, insurgent critic Nobel strips away the hyperbole to reveal the secret life--including a tally of deceptions and betrayals--of the century's most charged building project.

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Sixteen Acres: the Rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site

by Philip Nobel

On the morning of September 12, 2001, the sixteen acres of the World Trade Center site lay in ruins. They were wrecked and they were burning; they were the scene of an unprecedented crime. But they were not exactly 'erased' or 'wiped off the map' as some newspapers would claim: under the pile dominating what had already been named Ground Zero, the ...

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