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Saturday, November 28, 2009

The atrocity that is Empire State Plaza.

You're walking in a neighborhood of 19th century townhouses...

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... and you run smack into this:

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New York spent $2 billion to demolish 98 acres of 19th century buildings, displacing 9,000 human beings, in order to build a sickeningly ugly collection of government buildings. Is there a worse architectural crime in the history of the world? I'm sure there must be, but...
... it destroyed a neighborhood, isolated downtown from Center Square and created a stark mall that is lightly used and segregated from city life....
Pure evil.

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There's whimsy...

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... leaden government whimsy.

Look into the sunset...

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... and weep.

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