#5

The OMA towers are early to the party.

Maybe critics should place less value on the aesthetics of New York living, and more on the qualities that make the many ordinary buildings of yore happy homes for thousands today.

“People may say, ‘We don’t like it,’ but at least it is a project that people’s eyes focus on and they say, ‘Wow, that’s interesting.’”

Scaffolding is visceral and fluid, not just permanent, but possibly immortal.

“Hedonism in the face of global catastrophe?”

History—commercially reproduced as a spatialized representation.

The vote ultimately comes down to Chin and de Blasio.