Architecture CodeX
WAS IT WORTH THE DEMOLITION OF UNION CARBIDE? Architecture CodeX looks at how a bank worked the system. To build their new mega tower headquarters JP Morgan Chase worked the system to allow them to demolish an important mid-century modern tower, the Union Carbide Building by the Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) team of Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois. How do you judge if it was worth it?
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0:21 skip intro Demolishing Historic Buildings in NYC
1:01 Union Carbine Building
3:00 NYC Landmarks Commission Fails to protect the Union Carbide Building
3:28 The new JP Morgan Chase Tower is announced
4:25 UNBUILDING by David Macaulay
5:08 The structure of the JP Morgan Chase Tower
7:20 And in Chicago...
8:09 Is the Skyscraper Environmentally Sustainable?
10:29 Good but not Exceptional
