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September 14, 2006
Gaphattan builder: Stay small
The Brooklyn Papers
Manhattan architect Richard Meier — famed for his iconic, celebrity-filled glass-walled towers on West Street in Manhattan — celebrated his first Brooklyn building last week with a warning to his fellow master builders: Keep it small.
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“Brooklyn has its own scale, a human scale — that’s why Brooklyn is great,” he said, in an implicit criticism of Frank Gehry’s skyscraper-filled design for Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards.“Other builders can build tall, but that’s not for me. I build to Brooklyn scale.”
Posted by lumi at September 14, 2006 10:51 PM