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2001 ADPSR Environmental Clearinghouse | |||
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Sustainable Design in the Public Realm:- NYC Department of Design and Construction's High Performance Building Program | ||||
 ho among us ever imagined that the Twin Towers would collapse?
They had, after all, withstood a previous bombing in 1993. The
almost slow motion pancaking of Tower 2 was truly unbelievable. It was at
that moment that I felt terror — imagining that a chain reaction would
ensue and the whole of lower Manhattan would crumble. The reason for the
collapses became evident once you appreciated the ferocity of the fire. We
salute our ADPSR colleague, Les Robertson and the engineers in his firm,
LERA — the structural engineers for the World Trade Center; whose
design permitted so many people, though sadly not all, to escape.
 Within the archi- tectural and engineering community reactions have run the gamut from "build ‘em back up" to urging a period of mourning and reflection before rebuilding on that site. There will, no doubt, be an examination of emergency exit requirements and fire-proofing, although it is hard to imagine a fire-proofing system that could protect steel against a jet fuel explo-sion. It seems likely, for many different reasons, that the era of the super tall building is over. Architect James Stewart Polshek commented that "skyscrapers are not socially productive, and rebuilding would be an act of super arrogance." Others feel that not rebuilding would be a sign of knuckling under to the terrorists. Peter Marcuse, Professor of Planning at Columbia’s School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, has proposed a number of ideas to better New York rather than simply concentrating on the World Trade Center site (see lost family members or friends on September 11, 2001 and after |
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Thursday November 14 6:30 pm NYU Main Building, 3rd Floor 100 Washington Square East or 32 Waverly Place (use elevators on Waverly side) Hillary Brown, AIA, Founder & Former Director, NYC DDC, Office of Sustainable Design (now Program Consultant) John Krieble, Deputy Director, NYC DDC Office of Sustainable Design This program's integrated approach to building design, like some similar government initiatives across the country, is starting to improve the environmental performance of city-owned facilities for a diversity of building types, while emphasizing occupant comfort and health, and saving taxpayer dollars. Several projects will be featured. Sidney P. Gilbert, FAIA  ne of the founders and a long time member of
ADPSR, Sidney P. Gilbert died on September 14,
2001 after a brief illness. Gilbert is one of the giants in
ADPSR’s history. In 1982 he wrote a letter to hundreds
of colleagues exhorting them to join an effort against
the proliferation of nuclear weapons. This led to the
formation of Architects for Social Responsibility
(ASR) which became ADPSR. He was also instrumen-tal
in organizing several ADPSR exchanges between
architects in the US and in the former Soviet Union,
including a US-USSR traveling exhibit. ADPSR’s
voice for social responsibility would have been much
weaker had it not been for Sidney Gilbert.
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