The New York Times today
on architect Charles Gwathmey,
who died Monday:
"Mr. Gwathmey's Astor Place
condominium tower drew
criticism from those who
said it was insufficiently
deferential to its
surroundings."
Astor Place tower
(click to enlarge):
Surroundings:
The above sculpture,
popularly known as
The Borg Cube,
appeared here on
Saturday:
The Borg Cube, with
Cooper Union at left
For deferential remarks, see
Annals of Collective Consciousness.
See also the link
from noon today to
Nobel Prize Day, 2006,
and the link there to
J. G. Ballard on modernism.
"So, there is one place
where modernism triumphs.
As in the cases of the pyramids
and the Taj Mahal, the Siegfried line
and the Atlantic wall, death always
calls on the very best architects."
— J. G. Ballard,
"A Handful of Dust"