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October 13, 2006
New Yorker critic slams Gehry
The Brooklyn Papers
By Gersh Kuntzman
Rather than only rehashing Paul Goldberger's criticisms of Frank Gehry's design for Atlantic Yards, the article also compares Goldberger's pointed criticisms to the effusive statements of support by the City Planning Commission.
A card-carrying member of the Manhattan establishment has turned on Bruce Ratner’s starchitect, Frank Gehry, calling his design for the Atlantic Yards project “a large part of the problem.”
In his regular “Sky Line” column this week, New Yorker architecture critic and Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Goldberger slammed the $4.2-billion, eight-million-square-foot, 16-tower, arena, residential and office space development as “enormous.”
In attacking Atlantic Yards, Goldberger has joined a chorus of critics. But by singling out Gehry, Goldberger has gone where few have gone: attacking the very element that Ratner has called a selling point of the project: Gehry’s lush, curvaceous, radical designs.
Posted by lumi at October 13, 2006 7:46 AM