Elegant architects' plans for the building's refurbishment were drawn up some years ago, but put aside when money got tight.
In keeping with another element of green construction, the architects' plans for the new media center make extensive use of materials that can be obtained locally.
This vision of the stadium as a gigantic social organism, rather than as a machine for mass hypnosis, is underscored by the architects' plans for the building's future.
The architects' plans for the apartments on the 57th Street side show two-bedroom units with two servants' rooms, a pantry, a kitchen, excellent closet space, a dining room and an unusually large salon, 20 by 30 feet, running across the front.
The architect's plans for the first block show a glass and steel box, with a woman in high-heeled sandals striding briskly past, files under her arm.
Mr. Platt, his architect, filed plans for a Park Avenue-type apartment house just off East End at 530 East 86th Street.
Recently, he said, a client showed him another architect's plans for a hotel in Lower Manhattan; Mr. Kaufman was able to alter the plans to squeeze in 25percentt more rooms.
First an architect presented plans for the renovation of 33 East 63rd Street, near Madison Avenue, an 1877 neo-Grec-style brownstone row house, including limestone cladding, a front-door shift, a rear addition and other exterior changes.
Larry Silverstein, the developer who leased the towers from the Port Authority just weeks before September 11th and who has continued to insist that he has the legal right to rebuild as he sees fit, said that he likes the Libeskind plan, but he craftily limited his praise to the "site plan," and said nothing about the architect's plans for buildings.
John and Alice Drexel built the cool, reserved, limestone at 1 East 62nd Street from Trumbauer's designs; they had had the architect make plans for a site at 13 East 54th Street, but the impending construction of the St . Regis Hotelat 55th Street and Fifth Avenue provoked Mr. Drexel to seek quieter surroundings.
