Never Forget.
Interior Design, March, 2007
by Joseph Giovannini
With the New York Academy of Sciences, Hugh Hardy returns to the World Trade Center, where he once renovated Windows on the World
It was like a gentleman's club out of central casting. Founded in 1817, the New York Academy of Sciences later moved uptown to the Woolworth mansion, a 1911 building graced with carved mahogany paneling, leaded glass windows, and a marble facade worthy of Georgian London. The furnishings, shabby-genteel in a professorial way, conjured up visions of science discussed fireside, over brandy snifters and puffing pipes, by men wearing tweeds patched at the elbows. But the reality was that the mansion's small rooms balkanized the staff, limited outreach, hindered interchange about science, technology, and...
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