Ourossoff comments on the eruption of luxury residential towers already constructed or being designed by the profession’s most celebrated luminaries. NYT
"We all like to look at pretty baubles, even if they tend to be hollow. But a generation from now we may look back at these condo buildings as our generation’s chief contribution to the city’s history: gorgeous tokens of a rampantly narcissistic age."
And personally i think this is true for a large percent of the current crop of architecture, not just in NY but across the globe....
Where is the social?
Mar 23, 08 4:34 pm ·
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Brilliant!
"We all like to look at pretty baubles, even if they tend to be hollow. But a generation from now we may look back at these condo buildings as our generation’s chief contribution to the city’s history: gorgeous tokens of a rampantly narcissistic age."
And personally i think this is true for a large percent of the current crop of architecture, not just in NY but across the globe....
Where is the social?
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