The Landmark Preservation Commission had a hearing Tuesday to determine whether Silver Towers/University Village, a concrete complex designed by I. M. Pei in 1966 as part of a Robert Moses urban renewal program, should be designated a historic landmark.

A formal vote will be held at a later date, but already, the discussion about whether to protect the buildings — located between Bleecker and Houston Streets east of LaGuardia Place — has been heated.

Some fans of Jane Jacobs’s philosophy of urban spaces find the buildings hideous. Others see the towers as important examples of postwar modernism.

- bill 6-26-2008 3:44 pm

I find these buildings really perplexing. I've never been able to decide if I like them.

But given the latest NYU building on Delancey, I don't want them building anything new!
- jim 6-27-2008 4:48 pm [add a comment]


all the nyu dorm garbage that went up on 14th st and 3rd ave btwn st marks and 14th st in the 80's is fair warning to expect the worst from nyu.
- bill 6-27-2008 5:15 pm [add a comment]





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