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A City for the Rich, Built Poorly: The Construction of Hudson Yards

11th May 2019

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Brooklyn’s MetroTech Center lacked a unified vision with its variety pack of 90s-fad architecture and is today largely unremarkable. Hudson Yards developer Related Companies took a similar approach, commissioning numerous so-called “starchitects” to build what New York Times Architecture critic Micheal Kimmelman describes as an “architectural petting zoo.”

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2 Responses to “A City for the Rich, Built Poorly: The Construction of Hudson Yards”

  1. debby witt Says:
    May 11th, 2019 at 19:29

    Tim,

    Not all that related, but I can’t think of NYC and architecture without thinking of this 1931 photo of NYC architects dressed up as their buildings:

    https://vaviper.blogspot.com/2012/08/1931-photo-of-nyc-architects-dressed-up.html

  2. Tim of Angle Says:
    May 11th, 2019 at 20:18

    That is extremely silly.

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