The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) campus in Chelsea is a hodgepodge of mid-century modernist architectural styles that to this day fail to provide the school a with a singular identity…
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University Village occupies a five-acre superblock that is part of the larger Washington Square Urban Renewal Area. I.M. Pei designed three identical 30-story towers made of reinforced concrete…
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“One of the valiant, but misguided efforts in urban renewal, an island of concentrated poverty in a sleek superslab. What sometimes worked in Europe (Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, France)…
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The tower's top two floors cantilever out over the base on all sides, supported by large windowless concrete columns. Completely out of context in the historic neighborhood, the concrete behemoth…
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