架构师提供的文本描述。2010年4月，建筑界聚集在一起，保护上世纪80年代众多面临风险的后现代建筑之一。

Text description provided by the architects. In April of 2010 the architecture community gathered to protect one of the many at risk postmodern buildings of the 1980s. 

约翰·海杜克(JohnHejduk)建造的克鲁茨堡大厦(KreuzbergTower)的新业主，在开始改变建筑外观时，引起了著名建筑师的负面关注。克鲁兹伯格大厦的外墙现在已经修复，它受到的关注反映了它的后现代历史，以及它的重要设计师的显赫地位。

The new owners of the Kreuzberg Tower by John Hejduk drew negative attention from notable architects when they began altering the building’s façade. The Kreuzberg Tower’s façade has now been restored, and the attention it received reflects on its postmodern history, and the prominence of its important designer.

希杜克开始了他的职业生涯在库珀联盟的科学和艺术进步，他后来担任院长从1972年至2000年。这位受人尊敬的建筑师和艺术家建造的建筑寥寥无几，最著名的是他对建筑的书面、学术和理论贡献。

Hejduk began his career at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where he later served as dean from 1972 to 2000. The revered architect and artist built very few buildings, and is most recognized for his written, academic, and theoretical contributions to architecture. 

他是“纽约五人”和“德克萨斯游侠”的一员，写诗和理论。克鲁兹伯格塔是他的建筑作品的一个罕见的例子。

He was a member of both the New York Five and The Texas Rangers, and wrote poetry as well as theory. The Kreuzberg Tower is a rare example of his built work.

Kreuzberg塔是1987年国际包夫斯泰隆(IBA)计划的一部分。德国计划继续支持创新建筑和设计，通过建设和未建成的项目。1987年，国际律师协会邀请著名的建筑师和设计师为西柏林设想新的中低收入住房。

The Kreuzberg Tower was part of the 1987 International BauAufstellung (IBA) Program. The German program continues to support innovative architecture and design through built and unbuilt projects. In 1987 the IBA invited noted architects and designers to envision new low and middle income housing for West Berlin.

Hejduk的项目由一个14层的塔楼组成，塔有两个独立的5层楼的翅膀。中性的彩色塔和翅膀特征绿色的几何形状附着在正面。这些突出作为阳台和遮阳的低收入住房单位。

Hejduk’s project is composed of a 14 story tower with two separate 5 story wings. The neutral colored tower and wings feature green geometric shapes attached to the facades. These extrusions serve as balconies and sun shades for the low income housing units.

业主建议的翻新工程包括更换日光浴和扩建露台等。

Proposed refurbishment by the owners had included changes such as removal of the sun shades and expanding the balconies. 

建筑界产生的负面关注阻止了这些变化，并鼓励人们重新考虑建筑的重要性。不是最初的改变，而是计划对克鲁兹伯格塔，包括周围的花园，这是设计，但从来没有实现的全面翻新。

The negative attention produced by the architecture community halted the changes and encouraged a reconsideration of the importance of the building. Instead of the initial changes, a full renovation is planned for the Kreuzberg Tower, including the surrounding gardens, which were designed but never realized.

今天，克鲁兹伯格大厦受到政府的保护，其中有一项条款规定，改造它的计划必须由纽约市的建筑部门和适当的历史学家以及1987年的国际建筑协会的所有建筑物来考虑。

Today the Kreuzberg Tower is protected by the government with a clause stating that plans to alter it must be considered by the city’s building department and appropriate historians, as well as all of the 1987 IBA buildings. 

这种彻底的逆转得益于直言不讳的建筑界，以及城市对一座独特的建筑及其有影响力的教师设计师的认可和回应。

This total reversal is thanks to the outspoken architecture community, and the recognition and response by the city for a unique building and its influential pedagogue designer.