Practice: Tools

Libeskind's impromptu bursts of creativity have led to the building of icons.

The carbuncle at the World Trade Center site is well-documented and as the Transit Hub inches along, its mid-2000s aesthetic looks more and more ancient everyday. The dinosaur-like structural expressionist sculpture is eight years behind schedule and $2 billion over budget. It is set to become the crown jewel in Santiago Calatrava‘s overbudget and questionably…

Sometimes a company comes along that does something so well that it can only be categorized as &#822 0;next level” — there is no other way to put it. Case in point: Rotor Deconstruction takes architectural salvage as far as it can possibly go, and they do it exquisitely. Reclamation is important for several reasons. First,…