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Date: Thursday, January 17
Speaker: Pete Hamill, Author; journalist
Topic: Downtown: My Manhattan
Location: Broad Street Ballroom
At 41 Broad Street, this Classical Revival style building designed by Cross and Cross Architects was completed in 1929 as the headquarters of the Lee-Higginson Bank. The original grand banking hall with its marble mosaic columns now houses the Broad Street Ballroom.
Date: Thursday, February 21
Speaker: Kent Barwick, President, Municipal Art Society
Topic: City of Water: Examining the Past and Future of New York's Waterfront
Location: Museum of American Finance
At 48 Wall Street, the Museum occupies the majestic banking hall at the landmarked former headquarters of the Bank of New York. Designed in the Renaissance Revival style by Benjamin Morris, the building was completed in 1928.
Date: Thursday, March 20
Speaker: Michael Arad, Partner, Handel Architects
Topic: Reflecting Absence: Designing a Memorial at the World Trade Center
Location: 7 World Trade Center, 45th Floor
At Vesey and Greenwich Streets, this is NYC's first certified "green" office tower. Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the building is notable for its state-of-the-art glass technology providing reflectivity, light and spectacular views.
Date: Thursday, April 17
Speaker: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Chair, Historic Landmarks Preservation Center
Topic: Icons: NYC Landmarks to Remember
Location: New York Stock Exchange, 7th Floor
At Broad and Wall Streets, this structure with its magnificent façade of 52-foot-high marble columns and sculptured frieze was completed in 1903. It was designed by architect George Post to mirror Federal Hall National Memorial across the street.
CANCELLED: Thursday, May 15
Speaker: David Rockwell, Architect
Topic: David Rockwell and Rockwell Group: Inspiration, Imagination and Innovation
Location: Federal Hall National Memorial
WE REGRET THAT THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
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