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Old Posted Sep 19, 2014, 2:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown View Post
^It's not about Stern being from New York. It's because he knows his craft very, very, well. He's not some kid looking at picture books and trying to figure out how the details of a historic skyscraper worked. I think some of you are being misled by a gauzy, indistinct rendering, and thus projecting your own fears of faux historicism onto this building. I have every confidence this will be as well-composed and nicely detailed as NBC Tower.
I hope you don't actually believe this. If you do, you're deluding yourself. His portfolio of faux historisist junk speaks completely to the contrary. Trying to somehow equate AM Stern with the talent of an Adrian Smith is just embarrassing.
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