His Verdict...
Sanaa achieved success!
"Poised at one edge of a city struggling to regain its creative momentum, the New Museum building embodies a leap of faith. It suggests a breathing space somewhere between the innocence of New York’s artistic past and an encroaching money-driven cynicism. It’s hard to think of another architect who’s been able to capture that uneasy optimism with such grace.
NYT
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Oh by the way...
I thought this was a "funny' quote from the review.
Explaining why they didn't try for as refined a design as they have on other projects...
"For one thing, the quality of craftsmanship in New York is known to be substandard, compared with the workmanship at construction sites in, say, Japan."
exquisitely detailed? what about the corners of the volumes with the mesh? is that exquisitely detailed?
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