Posted Jan 12, 2018, 5:01 AM
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A good read on how we ended up with the current design...
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...york-city.html
The Megamall–Hotel–Condo–Concert Hall That Ate New York City
Time Warner Center and the West Side it made.
By Justin Davidson
January 10, 2018
The first of Donald Trump’s three unbuilt plans for the site. This one was the biggest, the most tremendous, 137 stories, you’d never seen a tower like this.
Safdie’s design looms on New York’s cover, 1987.
David Childs’s first scheme for the site, from 1989.
Childs’s revision, 1996.
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