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The “groundscraper” serves as the centerpiece of a bucolic, 260-acre site planned by acclaimed landscape architect Peter Walker, then a partner at Sasaki, Walker and Associates.
What Ever Happened to the “Original Green Building”? SOM 2021
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The term Cook and others have begun using for a building of the terminal’s proportions is “groundscraper,” a word that can be traced back at least to the nineteen-twenties, and the Russian artist and designer El Lissitzky, who argued that moving horizontally is more natural for humans than moving vertically.
Google’s New Manhattan Groundscraper Bets on the Future of the Office Condé Nast 2022
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