NY Observer > Fumihiko Maki http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/30404/feed Articles from Observer.com en Un-Cooper Union-Like Building to Rise on Cooper Union Site http://www.observer.com/2008/un-cooper-union-building-rise-cooper-union-site

The folks involved with a new building at 51 Astor Place sent out a rendering of the proposed tower last night, and it seems architect Fumihiko Maki plans a building rather reminiscent of his planned Tower 4 at the World Trade Center (a.k.a. 150 Greenwich Street), with a corrugated facade and distinct angles. The site sits just across from the school’s signature 1859 Cooper Union Foundation Building.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/un-cooper-union-building-rise-cooper-union-site#comments Real Estate Cooper Union Fumihiko Maki Woody Heller Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:30:44 -0500 Eliot Brown 65114 at http://www.observer.com Make Way for Maki, Part Deux: Minskoff Reportedly Developing in Cooper Square http://www.observer.com/2008/make-way-maki-part-deux-minskoff-reportedly-developing-cooper-square

Developer Edward Minskoff has agreed to buy a building from Cooper Union, with plans to raze the structure at 51 Astor Place and put a Fumihiko Maki-designed office building in its place, according to a report in The Real Deal.

The price of the building sale was not revealed. Mr.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/make-way-maki-part-deux-minskoff-reportedly-developing-cooper-square#comments Real Estate Astor Place Cooper Union Fumihiko Maki Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:46:45 -0500 Eliot Brown 63329 at http://www.observer.com Windows on the World Trade Center http://www.observer.com/2007/windows-world-trade-center

Anticipating the type of questions that arise this time of year, developer Larry Silverstein held a press conference today to assure everybody that rebuilding at the World Trade Center site continued on track, that shovels will go into the ground for his three towers in January, and that they would open in 2012.

If that’s not news, the 200-odd media people who turned out, many from national and international news outfits that cover developments like this from a distance, will try to believe really hard that it is. Instead of starchitects Richard Rogers, Sir Norman Foster and Fumihiko Maki, who attended last year’s unveiling of the actual designs, senior staff people from each of the three firms gave updates.

Yet the renderings looked remarkably the same, aside from a few details at street level.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/windows-world-trade-center#comments Real Estate Fumihiko Maki Larry Silverstein Richard Rogers Sir Norman Foster Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:19:40 -0400 Matthew Schuerman 57628 at http://www.observer.com Let's Make a 'Deal' http://www.observer.com/node/35144 The Port Authority and Larry Silverstein announced that they finalized April's shuffle at Ground Zero which puts the Freedom Tower moves into government hands. Sort of final that is, but the number of loose ends ($1 billion in missing insurance money and whatever the lawyers find in actually doing the documents) is getting smaller.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/35144#comments Real Estate Freedom Tower Fumihiko Maki Larry Silverstein The New York Times Company Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:51:49 -0400 Observer Staff 35144 at http://www.observer.com Plus Ca Change http://www.observer.com/node/35104 People (perhaps even we did at one time in our lives) like to point out how much Daniel Libeskind's site plan has been abandoned, but today's unveiling of the next three towers at Ground Zero shows there's a lot of Danny left. Compare this after-dark rendering:
WTC Nite Site resized.jpg
(Credit: Silverstein Properties and dbox)

... with Libeskind's revised plans from September 2003:  read more »

Libeskind Site Plan.jpg
(Via Lower Manhattan Development Corp.)
]]> http://www.observer.com/node/35104#comments Real Estate Daniel Libeskind Fumihiko Maki Larry Silverstein Norman Foster Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:06:29 -0400 Observer Staff 35104 at http://www.observer.com The New Look at Ground Zero http://www.observer.com/node/35102
WTC Site by day (credit SPI, dbox).jpg
No more World Trade Center: It's Greenwich Street from now on. (Credit: Silverstein Properties and dbox)

From left, the Freedom Tower (David Childs) as we know and love it; and designs unveiled today for 200 Greenwich Street (or Tower 2, by Sir Norman Foster), 175 Greenwich Street (or Tower 3, by Sir Richard Rogers), and 150 Greenwich Street (or Tower 4 by Fumihiko Maki).

-Matthew Schuerman ]]> http://www.observer.com/node/35102#comments Real Estate David Childs Freedom Tower Fumihiko Maki Silverstein Properties Inc. Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:00:11 -0400 Observer Staff 35102 at http://www.observer.com Wednesday: Falai? Yes, You Can! http://www.observer.com/node/34669 - Tom McGeveran]]> http://www.observer.com/node/34669#comments Real Estate Emmis Communications Corporation Fumihiko Maki Greenpoint Wylie Dufresne Wed, 03 May 2006 05:00:49 -0400 Observer Staff 34669 at http://www.observer.com Architect Trio Alights to Join Zero All-Stars http://www.observer.com/node/48141 Ground Zero is set to become a Hall of Fame for the all-stars of contemporary architecture now that  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/48141#comments Fumihiko Maki Jean Nouvel Larry Silverstein Lower Manhattan Development Corporation Sun, 05 Oct 2003 20:00:00 -0400 Tom McGeveran 48141 at http://www.observer.com