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Libeskind pauses before one large image near the center that says it all. It shows the three towers as they will appear at completion. On the left is a dashing, torqued configuration by Zaha Hadid, the London-based architect who was this year's winner of the Pritzker Prize, architecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kissing The Sky | 12/30/2004 | See Source »

Was there anything quite so stupid and time-wasting as the 1980s metal detector - the all but obsolete device that had gold diggers scouring beaches and suburban dumps for treasure? You can find yourself asking such questions with the work of Australian sculptor Ricky Swallow. And in the case of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Life at High Speed | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

For its main structural support, the Freedom Tower will also employ an increasingly popular triangular-grid trusswork. From a defensive standpoint, structural strength, even more so than fire safety, is the most important consideration for tall buildings. "A square is not a geometrically stable shape," says Childs. "A triangle is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Tall Orders | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

On the day the world Trade Center fell, the Empire State Building once again became the tallest building in New York City. In the months that followed, six of its commercial tenants ran off. They did not want to be in the tallest anything, anywhere, anymore. At a time when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tall Order | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

Le Corbusier’s “climbing street” was meant to connect Harvard’s architectural past—the buildings and diagonal paths of the Yard—with what was then thought to be the university’s future, along Prescott Street...

Author: By Brian D. Goldstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Celebrating Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

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