4.4.06 | Washington Post | The reason I can't blog this morning is that I have just moved to a new
cubicle and am totally out of sorts . . . . I don't want to be seen as a Work
Station Complainer. Every office has people whose work stations are, at
least in their imagination, killing them.. . . Changing workstations can be every bit as emotionally devastating as
going through a divorce. There is a pervasive strangeness to
everything. There are unfamiliar sounds, light hitting the eyes at an
odd angle, peculiar vapors from a photocopier, plus the reorientation
of the body with regard to magnetic North.
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1.17.06 New York Times Now that many of the new residential buildings come with a big-name designer or architect attached to them, I am even more curious: What do these famous, sophisticated and cutting-edge people bring to a building that was once defined only by location and square
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8.28.05 | NY Times | WHEN a federal judge ruled this month that a lawsuit brought by Thomas Shine,
formerly a student at the Yale School of Architecture, against David M. Childs, a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill,
could proceed, the architecture world was caught off guard. It wasn't
the accusation - that Mr. Childs appropriated one of Mr. Shine's
student projects in a 2003 design for the Freedom Tower at ground zero
- that seemed puzzling. The surprise was that Skidmore's motion for
dismissal had been unsuccessful. For once, an accusation of
architectural plagiarism had taken on a life beyond cocktail party
chatter and snippy blogs.
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8.27.05 | NY NewsDay | Even as 7 World Trade Center nears completion, it has only one committed tenant to date -- Silverstein Properties. And critics have viewed the new Freedom Tower design more as a bunker than an accessible office building. ut when it comes to actually building the new office towers on the 16-acre site, private developer Larry Silverstein, 74, is perhaps the single most prominent force moving the construction forward. In an interview with NY Newsday, Silverstein said many of the problems that once mired progress are over now that Pataki named his chief of staff, John Cahill, to serve as the governor's point person for downtown redevelopment.
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