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The Beauty and Mystery of How a Building Is ‘Built’
BUILT The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures By Roma Agrawal Illustrated. 300 pp. Bloomsbury. $28. Once, in a younger America, architects and engineers alike were simply called “builders”: people, mostly men, who had both design and construction skills. But after the American Institute of Architects was founded in 1857, the professions split. Architects began to garner all the glory while engineers toiled in their shadows.
One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center Biography of the Building The behind-the-scenes story of the most extraordinary building in the world, from the bestselling author of Skyscrapers In this groundbreaking history, bestselling author Judith Dupre chronicles the most astonishing architectural project in memory: One World Trade Center. The new World Trade Center represents one of the most complex collaborations in human history.
For gift books this holiday season, think classic
The gift book is a holiday tradition, but what’s significant enough to merit a space on your recipient’s coffee table? Classics. Look for a book that captures people, places or things we see as enduring, indispensable, iconic: unforgettable photographs, astonishing architecture, an utterly unique musician, a hugely influential television show, a most magical children’s story — and shoes.
New York’s Vast Flop
No urban design project in modern American experience has aroused such high expectations and intense scrutiny as the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site in New York City. It has taken fifteen years since the terrorist assault of September 11, 2001, for the principal structures of this sixteen-acre parcel in Lower Manhattan to be completed.
The Healing Power of Rebuilding the World Trade Center
Judith Dupré is a 2015 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and the author, most recently, of One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building. For all of its staggering construction statistics—90 million pounds of steel, a million square feet of glass, enough concrete to build a sidewalk from New York to Chicago—One World Trade Center’s most fundamental building blocks are intangible.
Judith Dupré: Manhattan’s newest skyscraper measures up to its 1,776 feet
By Judith Dupré Posted Nov. 29, 2013 @ 12:01 am One World Trade Center is now officially 1,776 feet, ratified as the nation’s tallest tower after years of speculation and debate. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s Height Committee made that decision this month after closed-room deliberations.
Judith Dupré: A love letter to the $4B PATH station
With the opening of the aptly named Oculus, the spiky centerpiece of the PATH World Trade Center Transportation Hub, criticism has rained down on the redevelopment of downtown Manhattan. New Yorkers now have a new way of looking at the entire site — as well as the controversy and billions of dollars it took to create it — and can see that it is a place both of great height and of great heart.
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