Students Redesign Church Hit On Sept. 11

Architecture students take on a real-world project -- redesigning a church demolished on Sept. 11.

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January 23, 2002, 1:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"As a professor of architectural technology, Tim Maldonado tries to find real-world projects for his students at New York City Technical College in Brooklyn. They have worked on a hospital floor for AIDS patients in Queens, a playground for children with Down syndrome on Long Island and buildings for the Con Edison site in Manhattan.But none of these projects has had quite the significance or poignancy of their most recent undertaking: designing a small church to replace one demolished on Sept. 11."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Student Project: Redesign Church Hit Sept. 11

Tuesday, January 22, 2002 in The New York Times

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