ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 303

Wed Sep 13 21:05:30 PDT 2006

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FIVE YEARS LATER
    by Kevin Matthews
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	We bear witness this week both to an international
	tragedy and to the largest architectural disaster in
	U.S. history. Five years ago, two of our largest
	buildings were utterly and unexpectedly destroyed,
	killing thousands of people who were unable to escape
	them. On this anniversary, as people around the world
	can still feel the ground reverberating, let us pause
	in remembrance.

	As serious controversy continues around the
	geopolitical and military implications of the attack on
	the twin towers, naive controversy swirls around the
	structural mechanisms of collapse. Confusion, unseemly
	power-brokering, and erratic steps seem also to
	characterize the reconstruction planning process.

	Still, the complex gears of that process have been
	turning, and designs for a set of new towers have just
	been unveiled. We present images of those designs, but
	will leave the critical appraisal they deserve for a
	later time.

	Another compact but important controversy turns around
	the sole architectural fragment of the two towers, a
	stepped and scarred wedge of concrete which has become
	known as the "Survivors Staircase." Listed by the
	National Trust for Historic Preservation among
	"America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places" for 2006,
	it too would be demolished according to the latest
	reconstruction plans. The reasons to save the stairway
	are nothing but symbolism and memory - which combined
	are surely the very essence of memorial. 
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Sarofim Research Building
    by Elizabeth Bollinger
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	The firms of BNIM Architects and Burt Hill have
	partnered to design a new facility at the Texas Medical
	Center. The six-story Fayez S. Sarofim Research
	Building is now home for the Brown Foundation Institute
	of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human
	Diseases (IMM). The building's elegant design is, in
	several ways, a departure from that of conventional
	research facilities.
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	In the past, various 3D formats (such VRML, 3DS, 3DMF,
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	format. As with those other formats, a free viewer is
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