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May 31, 2008
Ouroussoff Can Still Join Fight Against Atlantic Yards
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
The Times's architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote a scathing attack against Bruce Ratner's and Frank Gehry's Atlantic Yards proposal back in March. In that attack he included this odd phrase:...No development at all would be preferable to building the design that is now on the table. What’s maddening is how few options opponents seem to have.We could wage a public campaign to stop it...
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Today, Ouroussoff comes back with a review of another Gehry-Ratner production—the new Beekman tower design in Downtown Manhattan. We're not particularly interested in what he has to say about that building but we found this sentence interesting, especially in light of his March comment "we could wage a public campaign to stop it."...His [Gehry's] plan for the colossal Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn remains a pet target of grass-roots activists...Isn't that cute? Nicci O. recognized that there actually is a campaign against Atlantic Yards, which pre-existed his March article about his pet architect by about 4 years.
Posted by amy at May 31, 2008 10:01 AM