2024-09-27T07:14:10-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/31971430/it-just-seemed-like-a-big-mess Nam Henderson 2011-12-23T17:33:36-05:00 >2011-12-28T15:31:03-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/32/32pn7lddw4to1wdf.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Working with the actual drawings for the project&rsquo;s underground and infrastructure work, done by the architecture firm HOK, the students said they were consistently struck by the complexity of the site&rsquo;s context and underpinnings. &ldquo;It just seemed like a big mess,&rdquo; Mr. Cencer said. &ldquo;You couldn&rsquo;t just place what you thought was going to be beautiful. It made so much more sense why it was taking forever.</p></em><br /><br /><p> This past semester students from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning were tasked with designing a performing arts center for the Joyce Theater, to be located near One World Trade Center.&nbsp;Although architect Frank Gehry had already&nbsp;unveiled&nbsp;his proposed design for the site, the students were kept in the dark, as was Frank Gehry about their studio project. Robin Pogrebin reviews the students proposals and examines the programmatic and political &nbsp;challenges of the site.</p>