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December 9, 2009
The Ten Most Positive Architectural Events of 2009
The New Yorker
By Paul Goldberger
No, Atlantic Yards and its megaproject bretheren didn't make architectural critic Paul Goldberger's list, unless you consider dodging a bullet "most positive."
We now live in a different world, more inclined to celebrate the fact that these dismal economic times mean that the biggest projects on the drawing boards, the mega-developments of Hudson Yards on the site of the West Side Railyards and Atlantic Yards on the Brooklyn rail yard, are not happening. Nobody thinks Bruce Ratner can afford to turn Atlantic Yards into his very own stimulus package, the way Rockefeller did with his project, and we are generally glad of it. In fact, it has seemed to many New Yorkers as if the economic downturn has allowed us to dodge some major bullets.
Posted by lumi at December 9, 2009 6:57 AM