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 ...
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.
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 ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Date Published: 1941
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Some yellowing of spine edge slight wear inside cover has some brown spots from newspaper article and some pen writing. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London Granta
Date Published: 2005
Description: HB/DJ. New. 288 pages. There are 205, 951 acres in New York City. This book is about sixteen of them, taking us behind the scenes at the site itself, exposing the reconstruction as the flawed product of a complicated city: driven by money, hamstrung by politics and burdened by the wounds it is somehow supposed to heal. read more
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