Calatrava to give lecture.Internationally renowned architect, engineer and artist Santiago Calatrava Santiago Calatrava Valls (born July 28, 1951) is an internationally recognized and award-winning Spanish architect and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland. will launch the Downtown Alliance's 2006 lecture series, Downtown Third Thursdays. Calatrava will discuss his design of the Port Authority of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and New Jersey's World Trade Center Transportation Hub Transportation hub is a location where traffic is exchanged across several modes of transport. These modes may include any of railway, tramway, rapid transit, bus, automobile, truck, airplane, spacecraft, ship, ferry, pedestrian or any other kind of transportation. . At his lecture, titled "Recent Works," Calatrava will also discuss 80 South St., the residential tower he designed, along with many of his projects throughout the globe. The lecture will take place at 6 p.m. on January 19, on the 60th floor of One Chase Manhattan Plaza One Chase Manhattan Plaza is a banking skyscraper located in the downtown Manhattan Financial District of New York City. Construction on the building was completed in 1961. . "Downtown Third Thursdays highlights lower Manhattan's rich history and phenomenal architecture and offers a rare opportunity to appreciate spaces that are usually closed to the public," said Valerie Lewis, vice president of marketing for the Downtown Alliance. Downtown Third Thursdays will explore themes and issues that are as important today in lower Manhattan as they are in a historical sense. The series will be hosted at grand landmarks and venues such as One Chase Manhattan Plaza, the Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway, John Street Methodist Church The John Street Methodist Church located at 44 John Street in Manhattan, New York, USA was built in 1841. It is the third church located at the site.[2] It is the home of the oldest Methodist congregation in North America, starting on October 12, 1766[4]. at 44 John St., Seamens' Church Institute at 241 Water St. and The Downtown Association at 50 Pine St. All events are free, but attendees must RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. due to space limitations. For more information or reservations, please contact the Downtown Alliance at (212) 835-2773 or visit www.downtownny.com. Lectures are approximately one hour long. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion