After months of public protest, hearings and redesign, The Landmarks Preservation Commission today decided to go with Renzo Piano's Plan B for the Whitney Expansion, where only one of the adjacent townhouses will be demolished instead of two. Commission officials said "Renzo Piano's design successfully and appropriately knits together the past, present and future to create a new layer of history." Read the update. [NYT Coverage w/ imgs] (earlier)
"The Whitney proposed shrinking its planned 32-foot-wide entrance, left, to 16 feet, right, to save a brownstone facade and gain approval." (NYT)
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Plan A makes more sense than Plan B. The Whitney needs a wide entry...
(i love how piano's rendering includes eager museum-hopping jay-walkers)
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