Assignment Advising Port Authority on Plans for Lower Manhattan Completed by EE&K Architects.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2003 Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects announced that it has completed its assignment, providing advice on large scale mixed use urban design related to the Port Authority's ongoing Engineering and Transportation Planning Transportation planning is the field involved with the siting of transportation facilities (generally streets, highways, sidewalks, bike lanes and public transport lines). . Led by Stanton Eckstut the firm provided the Port Authority and the Lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North Development Corporation with planning services related to the transportation and infrastructure development for Lower Manhattan, and served as an advisor throughout the World Trade Center site plan competition. "Stan and his team made a tremendous contribution to this effort," said LMDC LMDC Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (New York City, NY, USA) LMDC Lake Merritt Dance Center (Oakland, California) LMDC Logistics Management Development Course LMDC Laser Motion & Development Company spokesman Matt Higgins. Stanton Eckstut used the firm's "Four Guiding Principles of Large Scale Design" to help evaluate the urban design plan. Along with Dan Libeskind, Eckstut was a panelist pan·el·ist n. A member of a panel. Noun 1. panelist - a member of a panel panellist panel - a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc at the General Session of this year's American Institute of Architecture's national convention in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . Eckstut said, "Many large scale urban design projects languish for years, caught up in community-related issues and complex approvals. As a result, surprisingly few are ever completed. We were fortunate in being able to share with the Port Authority our four decades of working closely with clients to help them successfully navigate the public processes, and orchestrate or·ches·trate tr.v. or·ches·trat·ed, or·ches·trat·ing, or·ches·trates 1. To compose or arrange (music) for performance by an orchestra. 2. community sensitivities into community enthusiasm. The Port Authority and LMDC have achieved extraordinary success with the consensus and official site plan and in record time. We believe what sets us apart from others is our combining this hard-won skill-set with design which is both innovate in·no·vate v. in·no·vat·ed, in·no·vat·ing, in·no·vates v.tr. To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time. v.intr. To begin or introduce something new. and site-appropriate. This is the reason our firm has been fortunate to enjoy consistent success in large-scale urban projects when others have not always fared so well." "EE&K Architects' impressive track record in large-scale urban master planning is exceptional among architectural firms An architectural firm is a company which employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture. History Architects (master builders) have existed since early in recorded history. The earliest recorded architects include Imhotep (c. ," said Anthony G. Cracchiolo, Director of Priority Capital Programs for the Port Authority. EE&K Architects is a full-service architectural firm that is acknowledged to have raised the standard for the fundamental role architecture plays in modern, large-scale mixed-use urban design. Established in 1959, EE&K Architects' landmark projects include Battery Park City, Los Angeles' Gateway Center, the Hollywood & Highland commercial/entertainment complex, Pasadena's Paseo Colorado, the Circle Centre in Indianapolis, and many of the Smithsonian Institute's historic renovations. |
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