A fixed structure in ever-changing neighborhood.

Real Estate Weekly | March 15, 2006 | Copyright

A residential development site on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where Little Italy meets Chinatown, posed interesting design challenges for architect Adam Kushner.

It wasn't that he didn't understand the neighborhood through which he rides his motorized scooter from his West Village home to his office on Canal Street, just blocks from the site. It's just that the transient nature of a neighborhood experiencing an influx of contemporary shops amidst the culturally entrenched and traditional iconography of Little Italy's trattorias and Chinatown's food markets ...

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