The NYtimes architecture critic sounds off on the mediocrity of the developer's schemes for the 26 acre site that replaces the failed football stadium proposal. The 5 schemes 'are not just a disappointment for their lack of imagination, they are also a grim referendum on the state of large-scale planning in New York City.'

This is not how to build healthy cities. It is a model for their ruin, one that has led to a parade of soulless developments typically dressed up with a bit of parkland, a few commercial galleries and a token cultural institution — the superficial gloss of civilization. As an ideal of urbanism, it is hollow to its core.

Are the architects/developers to blame or is the the MTA's lack of vision?

Related Companies' new urbanist proposal by Kohn Pederson Fox, Robert A.M. Stern, and Arquitectonica creating a News Corp distopia...



Steven Holl for Extell Development Company with their innovative 'suspension deck'. read more in the pdf presentation



Brookfield Properties' all-star team including masterplan by SOM & Field Operations; buildings by buildings designed by SOM, Thomas Phifer & Partners, SHoP architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa SANAA, and Handel Architects.





FXFowle & Pelli for the Durst Organization and Vornado Realty Trust



Helmet Jahn & Peter Walker for Tishman Speyer Properties.

On exhibit at 335 Madison Avenue, (43rd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue), 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. untill Monday, December 3. You can fill out comment cards there to push the MTA for better a better project.

no land grab & the gothamist have more..