The Folk Art Museum in New York City, by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. Photo: Ozier Muhammad for NYTimes. When the news broke that MoMA was planning on demolishing the former American Folk Art Museum, the design community responded with a gigantic petition to preserve the architectural gem, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, which had …Continue Reading
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Demolished Too Soon: 11 Buildings That Should Still Be Standing!
The Folk Art Museum in New York City, by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. Photo: Ozier Muhammad for NYTimes. When the news broke that MoMA was planning on demolishing the former American Folk Art Museum, the design community responded with a gigantic petition to preserve the architectural gem, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, which had …Continue Reading
Top 10: Flower-Shaped Buildings
Photo: HOK Architects Spring is in the air—from the magnolia trees bursting into bloom in Brooklyn to the daffodils carpeting the Upper West Side, the last traces of a protracted wet winter are quickly vanishing. The old proverb, April showers bring May flowers, is proving true once again! In the spirit of the times (and
Top 10: Flower-Shaped Buildings
Photo: HOK Architects Spring is in the air—from the magnolia trees bursting into bloom in Brooklyn to the daffodils carpeting the Upper West Side, the last traces of a protracted wet winter are quickly vanishing. The old proverb, April showers bring May flowers, is proving true once again! In the spirit of the times (and
Another One Bites The Dust! Prentice Women’s Hospital Cleared For Demolition
Image via chicago modern It’s been a really rough day for Modernist architecture. This morning, we reported that the National Park Service has ordered the demolition of Richard Neutra’s Cyclorama, and now comes word concerning the fate of the Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago. Back in November we wrote about Circuit Judge Neil Cohen’s decision to
Prentice Women’s Hospital Safe…For Now
Image courtesy of Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune The ongoing struggle over the fate of the Prentice Women’s Hospital, which we’ve written about before here, reached a new level of suspense on Thursday with the decision by Circuit Judge Neil Cohen to stay the building’s demolition, at least temporarily. Preservation advocates filed a lawsuit to prevent demolition,
Gehry, Gang Step In To Save Chicago Landmark From Destruction
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Brutalist masterpieces around the country are under attack around the country, with some surviving and others, unfortunately, succumbing to the onslaught. The awesomely octagonal Third Church of Christ, Scientist in Washington, D.C. has been approved for demolition, while many of Paul Rudolph’s most celebrated works have already been put to the wrecking ball. Recently, though, his Orange County (Connecticut) Government Center was saved from being replaced by a thoroughly mediocre colonial pastiche.
Now, a new battle is shaping up, this time over the preservation of Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago. Frank Gehry and Jeanne Gang are among the sixty-some signatories of a letter to Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel, asking that the building be spared. The letter, in part, read, “As members of the architecture community, we believe Goldberg’s Prentice should be given a permanent place in Chicago’s cityscape. A building this significant–this unique in the world–should be preserved and reused.” The 1975 building features truly daring rounded concrete cantilevers hovering above a steel and glass base.
The building has been in limbo since June 2011, when the city’s landmarks commission shelved a decision to add it to the register. Northwestern University owns the building, and intends to replace it with a medical research tower, though they do not yet have the funding to do so. The architects’ letter runs afoul of a vocal segment of Chicagoans who support demolition.
[via Chicago Tribune]