« Called on the carpet. | Main | Hey, there's an empty lot! Cover it with a nasty institutional behemoth, stat! »
June 28, 2004
They can call it the East River Pipe(line). Curbed linked up to the Bloomberg interview (reprinted by Architect) with Richard Rogers, who, along with SHoP Architects, won a limited competition to renovate the lower segment of the FDR (one of his ideas is burying the drive itself). For more details, the Lower Manahattan info site has a reasonably in-depth look at the competition, with too-small thumbnails of all the finalists, including the second team-up (the first being the plywood viewing stand overlooking the WTC site) of that most inexplicable collaboration: Rockwell/Diller, Scofidio & Renfro.