ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 298

Wed Aug 9 21:20:49 PDT 2006

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HUGH STUBBINS, MODERN TOWER
    by Michael J. Crosbie
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	On New York City's Lexington Avenue at 53rd Street,
	Citicorp Center (built 1976 to 1978) reaches into the
	sky like a giant sheathed in aluminum and glass. Its
	designer, architect Hugh Stubbins, Jr., who challenged
	modern skyscraper orthodoxy of the time, died July 5,
	2006 at the age of 94.

	The top of the tower, which rises 59 stories on the
	Manhattan skyline, slopes 45 degrees to the south and
	was intended to be fitted with solar panels (but never
	was). The tower stands on four muscular legs, not at
	the expected corners of the square plan, but at the
	midpoints of each side, its shaft cantilevering out
	over the plaza 114 feet (35 meters) beneath it.

	Tucked under Citicorp's northwest corner is a prism of
	stone that houses St. Peter's Lutheran Church, its
	vertical slit windows revealing a worship space a story
	or more below street level.

	I remember poring over the latest issue of an
	architecture magazine thirty years ago with my fellow
	architecture students. It is now hard to imagine the
	buzz Citicorp stirred at the time. The issue had
	devoted several pages to this colossus of Gotham.
	Months later, I had a chance to see the building in
	person.

	The gleaming tower, seemingly weightless above my head,
	opened inside to a multistory atrium with promenades,
	escalators, and brilliant sunlight. Citicorp seemed all
	about light; the spring after it opened, neighbors
	reported the rejuvenation of spindly trees across the
	street, responding to the light reflected off
	Citicorp's aluminum and glass body. The building won an
	AIA Honor Award in 1978.
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	As "green" principles begin to take hold in U.S. firms,
	those architects who have been following them the
	longest are demonstrating a refined and diverse
	understanding of what "sustainability" means to a
	building's occupants. For the NBBJ design team for the
	Washington State Veterans' Home, sustaining the elderly
	inhabitants' quality of life was a key component of the
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Backstage Matters
    by Keith Gerchak, AIA
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	I have noticed as a professional actor - an observation
	reinforced in my work as a registered architect,
	specializing in theater design consulting - that the
	same shortcomings in backstage design occur time and
	again. Creating inefficient and sometimes barely
	workable spaces, these chronic problems in layout and
	provisions may be attributed in large part to design
	efforts that disproportionately concentrate on the
	lobby and the auditorium.
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	was spread by builder's common use of pattern books and
	by the influence of such architects as Town and Davis
	and designer/ writer Minard Lafever. Due in part to the
	publications of Andrew Jackson Downing in the
	mid-1840s, the Greek Revival style was challenged by a
	new style of architecture. What was this style? Can you
	name any of A.J. Downing's influential books?
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