The proposed Smithson design for rebuilding Coventry Cathedral, though never realized, was much admired.
The Peabody Trust recently unveiled an imaginative shortlist of designs for rebuilding its social housing in Hackney and Islington.
D1 Developer for Ground Zero Daniel Libeskind, the architect who created the winning design for rebuilding the World Trade Center site will soon be offered contracts to oversee nearly all of the development projects at the site, rebuilding officials said.
Daniel Libeskind, the architect who created the winning design for rebuilding the World Trade Center site, will soon be offered contracts to oversee nearly all of the development projects at the site, rebuilding officials said yesterday.
Jones's work at St . Pauls considerably influenced Sir Christopher Wren and is reflected in some of his city churches as well as in his early designs for rebuilding the cathedral.
This may have been so, and it is certain that Charles I, nearly 20 years after the Banqueting House was built, instructed Jones to prepare designs for rebuilding the whole of Whitehall Palace.
Responding to a wave of public dismay over the first designs for rebuilding Lower Manhattan, Gov. George Pataki has sent word that it's time to go back to the drawing board.
The design echoes myriad earlier grids stretching back to the ancient world – for Thomas Jefferson, it revived "the old Babylon" – but perhaps the closest inspiration was Richard Newcourt's bold design for rebuilding London in 1666, with its central square at the intersection of axial streets, surrounded by four satellite squares.
This was supplemented by a larger steam chest and an increased-diameter chimney casting specially designed for the rebuilds.
The six design proposals for rebuilding the World Trade Center site (front page, July 17) are collectively and individually disappointing.
