Postmodern Monstrosities For Downtown

"What’s most frustrating is that these designs were entirely predictable. After the public reacted lukewarmly to the six original plans put forward by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation’s consultants, the group enlisted the help of a coalition of architects, designers, and planners known as New York New Visions to select teams to produce new designs. But New York New Visions is a trendy organization in thrall to architectural postmodernism. Its ideas are relentlessly at odds with the great Beaux Arts and Art Deco designs that people love most about New York, and its selections were guaranteed to produce something jarring and out of place."