NEW YORK | Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center (WTC)
Arts Center at WTC Takes Step Forward
By JENNIFER MALONEY | December 30th, 2011 Quote:
WTC Arts Board Members Named Averting Massive Funding Loss December 29, 2011 9:14pm | By Julie Shapiro, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer Quote:
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Any chance they can dump Gehry?
His New World Symphony in Miami is actually pretty decent, but the models of the New York project were just atrocious. |
Oh wow, I'm happy to hear progress is being made on this, at least from an organizational standpoint.
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The original Gehry design looked like it belonged in the jungle.
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Well, check out the Miami project I mentioned... Gehry still plays around with crazy forms, but they are inside of a beautiful, simple glass and steel box. It's like Frank Gehry and Richard Meier teamed up.
Something like that could be beautiful at the WTC, where the boxy modernist enclosure acts as a go-between that transitions between Gehry's funkiness and the strait-laced office towers of Lower Manhattan. The park in the Miami project is probably not feasible in NY, but it's also a really cool element... just like at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago, Gehry tries to democratize the performances so that even people without expensive tickets can enjoy the performance. In Miami, the building has a huge blank white wall facing the park where performances are projected and the audio is re-broadcast through a series of sound sculptures placed in the park. AFAIK the park is open to the public, so anybody can come enjoy. http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5260/5...ee9da276_b.jpg flickr/Brule Laker http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6032/6...78d88b46_b.jpg flickr/newworld.symphony |
Gehry's earlier working model...
http://tribecatrib.com/news/2010/jan...ts-center.html http://tribecatrib.com/images/storie...pac-update.jpg A preliminary design of the performing arts center slated to be built at the World Trade Center site. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/ar...er=rss&emc=rss http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...eady/popup.jpg |
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You notice there's a car turned sideways on the road next to the model. I assume the driver was amazed, but not in a good way. :P
I would think that was something he didn't spend a whole lot of time on, but then again...REDESIGN! :yuck: |
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http://www.observer.com/2012/01/wtc-...john-zuccotti/
WTC Performing Arts Center Makes Its Debut with John Zuccotti http://www.observer.com/files/2012/0...mb-400x246.jpg Jan 5, 2012 By Matt Chaban Quote:
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I have faith in Bloomberg that he'll get the museum and this cultural center where they need to be. It's amazing, yet not all that surprising, how something like the 9/11 museum is caught up in a financial cross-fire . . . I guess somebody has to eat the cost though . . .
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Recent Progress at the World Trade Center Site (2012)
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I believe that Downtown should get the new PAC, but it doesn't have to be at the WTC site, particularly when you look at the risk of us not getting what should be built there (office tower, memorial, etc.). I've always looked at the site between towers 1 and 2 as a good location for the hotel that was originally supposed to be part of tower 2. Hotel space could even be built above the PAC, if it were part of the plan. But it's all about the costs. |
When did downtown have an OLD Performing Arts Center, that a new one should be built (not that I'm complaining).
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I know Downtown NEVER had a Performing Arts center, before I was just stating it that way, to express the point of 'Is there a need for a Performing Arts Center?'.
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I believe this building should be called WTC Building 6 to complete the number of buildings at the WTC. They have One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Seven, but no Six.
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