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[Con Ed site, East River, Midtown Manhattan, New York]

• oh, dear, oh dear
  "The developers hope to have their master plan completed sometimes this fall. I have my own master plan for the months ahead." (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_01.06.24)

   

• blazing luminaries
  "Jorge Machado is a member of the Pritzker Prize Jury." (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_01.06.24)

• coasting
  "Is it possible that the winning team could be called a 'Dream Team' precisely because none of them were on it? Because architecture in truth a developer's worst nightmare?." (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_01.06.24)

   

• mediocre sum
  "Pei Cobb Freed still basks in the aura of its dounding partner, I. M. Pei ... Henry Cobb's contribution to American architecture is largely confined to the 1970s ...

  Skidmore Owings & Merrill has always seen itself as a purveyor of top-value design services ... More recently, under the direction of David Childs, the firm has specialized in a denature Art Deco style with vague pretensions to classical gravitas." (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_01.06.24)

• anathema
  "Both firms now specialize in what, to paraphrase Virginia Woolf, one might call the architecture of $19.99. ... No vulgar riot of ideas tumble expensively in these architects' heads ..." (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_01.06.24)

 
[The New York Times Headquarters, Manhattan]

• gossamer vision
  "The New York Times plans to stake a gossamer claim to the mid-Manhattan skyline with a faceted, shimmering, semitransparent headquarters by Renzo Piano, an Italian architect who has enjoyed the international spotlight since the construction of the Centre Pompidou in Paris 23 years ago." (David W Dunlap, nyt_00.10.13)

• thin horizontal ceramic bars
  "... Mr Piano had been chosen in part on the strength of the distinctive facade he has proposed; in essence, a skin of clear glass enveloped in screens that seem almost to float in the air around the tower ..." (Michael Golden, the vice chairman and senior vice president of The New York Times Company, in David W Dunlap, nyt_00.10.13)  

• the color of the moment
  "It's always very dangerous to look for symbolism ... But in some way, I love the idea that the spirit of a newspaper like The New York Times is expressed semantically." (Renzo Piano in David W Dunlap, nyt_00.10.13)

• just a trend
  "My real hope ... is that the building will be loved." (Renzo Piano in David W Dunlap, nyt_00.10.13)

• just say
  "The only other partnership of architects in the competition, Mr. Gehry and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, withdrew last week before the final judging. 'I would just say our process was incompatible,' Mr. Gehry said yesterday." (David W Dunlap, nyt_00.10.13)

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