

- Nov 30, 2020
Three Architects Deconstruct ‘Jenga’
How much does ‘Jenga’ resemble actual skyscraper construction? We asked the experts. I thought a lot about Herzog & de Meuron’s “Jenga Building” in lower Manhattan while writing about the World Trade Center. I admire the audacity of their 56 Leonard Street building, which forces you to consider the nuts and bolts of skyscraper construction. That deconstructed design, however, like similar others proposed earlier for the WTC in December, 2002, wouldn’t have been able to fulfil