CRITIC'S CHOICE

From: The Architects' Journal | Date: July 12, 2007| Author: Mead, Andrew | Copyright information

After a dire period in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was disfigured by the progeny of Philip Johnson's AT&T building, New York is again a destination for new architecture. One promising project in the current construction boom is on the Bowery: a seven-storey stack of slab-like volumes clad in zinc-plated steel, home for the city's New Museum of Contemporary Art (www. newmuseum. org). Its architect is SANAA: the Japanese practice headed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, which last year ...

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