“Why do they come to us? Because of 15 Central Park West,” Mr. Stern, 73, said earlier this month from his office on the West Side of Manhattan. The Chinese “don’t want to go home at night to their three-bedroom shelf on the 44th floor,” he added. “They want to live in a place. That’s what we do: we’re place-makers.” — nytimes.com
“You used to look out that window and somewhere you would see a crane,” [Richard Meier] said a few days ago. “You go around New York City today and you don’t see that many cranes. It is just not happening at this moment.”
“Obviously,” he added, “if the economy in this country stays the way it’s been, we are happy to be working all over the world. I wish we had a project in New York City, but we don’t.”
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this passage seems enlightening..
For the wealthy, “architecture is a different form of art,” said Ali Pamir, the Turkish developer of the Bodrum project. “And architecture is becoming collectible".
This is interesting from a new urbanist point of view. The skyscraper-like condo towers are a bit out of scale from the rest BUT it afforeds the rest of the project a far more human scale than would have been likely if they weren't there. I would much rather live in something like this, where 80% of the urban fabric is on a human scale, than a homogenous 8-story medium density mush...
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"8 story medium density" is the fabric of Paris. It's not so mushy if it's pretty!
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