glass is much more than half-full / glass building fashion is reviewed
Newsday’s review of all the glass-this-and-glass-that in lofts and condos
I am not going to add more commentary to Newsday’s review, as they are much more comprehensive and concise than I can be about architecture. I will just note that they talk about the fashion of glass curtain walls in new Manhattan developments and cite (and comment on) the lofts at Phillip Johnson’s Urban Glass House, 497 and 505 Greenwich (about 497: “the curio look of a building in a bottle”; and about 505: “a brace of dark-glass boxes on sturdy-looking bases”), 255 Hudson, 40 Mercer, Blue Condo (“a piece of live-in costume jewelry”), and –of course – Gwathmey Siegel’s much-maligned Design For Living (“It’s a curtain without a show”) as examples.
THX to Brownstoner for pointing me to it.
© Sandy Mattingly 2006
Tagged with: 255 Hudson, 40 Mercer, 497 Greenwich, 505 Greenwich, Blue Condo, Gwathmey, Urban Glass House
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Top
Follow Us!