New York has seen twenty-first-century buildings in early-twentieth-century drag before, but 30 Park Place stands out, both for its size [...] and for its location—cheek-by-jowl with some of the most ambitious buildings to emerge from the current high-rise boom [...]
“We’re transposing a nineteen-thirties language to lower Manhattan, which has gotten overrun with glass and abstraction,” the architect said in a recent interview. “People want to look at buildings and make connections.”
— newyorker.com
Robert A.M. Stern Architects in the Archinect news:
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Nice article. His firm is truly eclectic. Not all great buildings but ones that contribute a lot more to their streets and cities than could be expected nowadays. I don't know if people actually want to make connections, but if they do, it's nice to offer them some help.
I'm surprised that the WTC site wasn't turned over to Stern. He is the expert on NYC modernism, and we could have something more interesting and complex than banal glass dildos.
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