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Originally Posted by a very long weekend
there are moments in the history of a city when a perfect confluence of circumstances (wealth, desire for urbanity, design sophistication) leads to a great moment of widespread high quality architecture. ringstrasse-era vienna, hausmann's paris, wren's london, bund shanghai, 1920s new york. there's definitely an argument to be made that nyc is living another such a moment now.
thanks for the photos.
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One of my favorite comments in all my time here. Although I feel that in the other eras/areas you mentioned, that the proportion of good architecture to bad was higher. I would say that 25% of current NYC architecture is either bad or awful (eg almost everything in Queens and most around Times Square). 25% is merely decent (eg most of Brooklyn). 25% good (the KPF builkdings at Hudson Yards, One57, 432 Park etc), and 25% great. Perhaps I'm wrong, but in those other eras, I would guess it would more like 15-15-35-35, mainly because good craftsmanship counts as good architecture in my book.