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Jake Morrissey examines the intense rivalry between two seventeenth-century Italian architects who transformed the architecture of Rome: Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini.
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Heeding urgent pleas from preservation advocates, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission agreed yesterday morning to hold a hearing on the future of the 1949 Paterson Silks retail building at Union Square. But it was too late.they couldnt even get a decent picture of the damned building!
Hours earlier, the building's most distinctive feature, a double-height, glass-walled tower, had fallen victim to the wrecking ball to make way for a Bank of America branch.
The missed opportunity jolted advocates of midcentury architecture who have been fighting to save the Paterson Silks building and the former Summit Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Both were designed by the architect Morris Lapidus, best known for his colorful Miami Beach creations like the flamboyant Fontainebleau and Eden Roc hotels.
"I'm going to say a horrible word," warns University of Illinois at Chicago architecture professor Roberta Feldman as she discusses the public's conception of prefabricated housing. "Trailer trash. We link it with people we consider uprooted and mobile." Housing built in a factory doesn't exclusively mean double-wides, and it may offer an affordable alternative to the usual -- and more expensive -- practice of building homes from scratch on-site. But it can be hard establishing a comfort level with a something that often seems as much joke fodder as housing type.by my count thats two words. go ahead, say it again...