Justin Davidson argues that the “contextualists” have it all wrong: Jean Nouvel’s beast is exactly what 53rd Street needs.
NY Magazine
Davidson explains...
In many ways, Nouvel’s design is in fact craftily contextual. Wrapping around the American Folk Art Museum by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien to join Yoshio Taniguchi’s expanded MoMA, the tower would complete a suite of early-21st-century designs, giving the block a period integrity that the future will want to protect. MoMA itself has gradually evolved on its way down 53rd Street, from the pearly 1939 building by Goodwin and Stone to Philip Johnson’s small black wing, César Pelli’s Museum Tower, and now Taniguchi’s connective tissue.
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