A no-holds-barred look at the collision of interests behind the ambitious attempt to raise a new national icon at Ground ZeroWhen we stand in downtown Manhattan in the future and look up and ask; "Why?"--Why is it so strange; so rude; so striving; so right; so wrong?--we will have Sixteen Acres to give us the answers. Tracing the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site from graveyard to playground for high design; insurgent critic Philip Nobel strips away the hyperbole to reveal the secret life of the centurys most charged building project.Providing a tally of deceptions and betrayals; a look at the meaning of events beyond the pieties of the moment; and a running bestiary of the main players--developers and bureaucrats; star architects and amateur fantasists; politicians and the well-spun press--Nobels book bares the crucial moments as factions and institutions converge to create a noisy new culture at Ground Zero.Tragic and comic by turns; full of low dealings and high dudgeon; Sixteen Acres takes us behind the scenes at a site in search of its sanctity; exposing the reconstruction as the flawed product of a complicated city: driven by money; hamstrung by politics; burdened by the wounds it is somehow supposed to heal.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Inspiring once. but today nothing spectacular. Good for beginners. maybe.By Charles C. LarsonEverybody loves this book and certainly Whitney is mentioned by many good artists as having been their instructor or inspiration. But I found it average. Okay. Some good information and artwork. Good foundation sort of stuff. But I didnt read the instruction or see the work and get wowed into suddenly learning something that would turn me into a watercolor wizard. Yet this book was around when so many others were not even in the planning. Whitney was there years ago teaching and inspiring and what he said then was new. For me. it is just that others....maybe his disciples. have since said the same thing. Maybe a good book for beginners.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Just excellent. Any artist will gain insight and skills from ...By Jean CrockerI am a knowledgeable. competent artist with over 50 years experience. This book has given me a whole new look at design. Just excellent. Any artist will gain insight and skills from this book.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A must have for the serious painterBy Laura J. CoffeyThis is a wonderful book. I have a Master of Fine Arts Degree with an emphasis on oils. Recently.Ive begun to work in watercolor and located this book. It beautifully clarifies some to the more technical aspects of painting as well as some of the finer points on watercolors.A must have for any serious painter
