Apart from delivering the welcome news that Manhattan’s West-Park Presbyterian Church was recently awarded landmark status, ArchPaper’s review about how the building averted demolition also alludes to a interesting - but by no means unprecedented - strategy for generating public support to destroy (inconveniently) historic structures.
Back in 2003 (before being landmarked), the West-Park congregation proposed replacing the 1880s church [...]
More than a couple critics have located both the climax and requisite decline of an “architectural epoch” in the last decade. During that time, the United States - and by extension, much of the world - built up for itself a real-estate bubble just begging to be popped. And popped it was.
Among the high-profile development victims were Frank Gehry’s Brooklyn [...]
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