Court of International Trade & Jacob K. Javits Federal Building | Gail Cornell

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 11 a.m.

Architectural historian Gail Cornell talks about the adjoined Court of International Trade and Jacob K. Javits Federal Building. Home to federal agencies such as the NYC branch of the FBI and GSA, this granite and glass checkerboard was once the backdrop to the highly controversial Richard Serra sculpture Tilted Arc and now boasts a new plaza redesign by landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. The original landscape architect was Martha Schwartz.