Os Gêmeos, The Giant of Boston, MA, 2012
Larry Silverstein, the developer of the World Trade Center, received a multi-billion-dollar insurance payment for the destroyed building, under terms that included a requirement that he rebuild and lease an equivalent amount of commercial space.
Errol Louis, "On Banksy and One World Trade Center," 2013 (via cnn)
Wherein the New York elite profit off of Terrorism.
Museums are expanding beyond topological terms and are growing to the scale of a city. I think the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi was scrapped because it tried to be architectural at a scale that architecture couldn't handle. Architecture is currently terrorized by the impetus to create landmarks.
Rem Koolhaas, "Interview with Ossian Ward," 2011
We're facing a situation where anyone -- a felon, a terrorist -- can open a gun factory in their garage and the weapons they make will be undetectable.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, "On 3D-Printed Guns," 2013
By freeing ourselves from the obsolete narratives we used to rely on, we can begin to recognize the patterns in the apparent chaos.... In a world where crises are constant and perpetual, we might as well begin to develop more sustainable approaches to solving them in real time, rather than once and for all.
Douglas Rushkoff, "The Terror of 'Real Time,'" 2013
In an always-on, post-narrative age, 24-hour cable and Internet news and Twitter feeds offer a steady stream of opportunities for panic and misinformation.... It's like we are all living in newsrooms.
Douglas Rushkoff, "The Terror of 'Real Time,'" 2013