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January 8, 2006
Gehry, in Manhattan, hit with Atlantic Yards questions: “I didn’t expect this to be a thing about Brooklyn"
TimesRatnerReport details Gehry's appearance at the Times Talk segment of the New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend:
During the session, Gehry had said of his projects, "If I think it got out of whack with my own principles, I’d walk away." Patti Hagan of the Prospect Heights Action Coalition, wearing a "Welcome to Ratnerville" t-shirt and a sticker saying "Eminent Domain Abuse," picked up on that.She asked, "Have any of your previous projects involved the use of eminent domain or eminent domain abuse? Does that square with your principles and would that be enough to make you walk away from the Ratner project?""No comment," Gehry responded, to applause, though not as much as he received previously. (Gehry fans had to perform a quick calculation: it’s one thing to admire the architect, but another to endorse eminent domain.)
Posted by amy at January 8, 2006 10:53 AM