“They had to use them as status symbols to vie for customers’ attention,” he continued. “It becomes this weird petting zoo'
Photo: Getty Images, Alamy “It’s like when you go to someone’s wedding and they’re trying to prove how fancy it is,” an architect is saying to me. “Like they have both sushi and caviar, but the sushi has just been sitting out.” He’s talking about the apartment towers surrounding the High Line, which arguably constitute the densest conglomeration of buildings designed by celebrated architects anywhere in the world.
The nicest thing anyone can seem to say about these buildings is that while none of them is any given architect’s best work, they’re not bad. Or not that bad. Or not a total failure. Except for the Heatherwick building. Everyone hates that one. This is, really, where the starchitect boom was leading all along. Around the turn of the century, when three Richard Meier buildings went up in the West Village and sold at sharp premiums to celebrities, developers realized that they could charge extra for buildings by prominent names.
Another architect came to the defense of a couple of other buildings: He actually likes Enrique Norten’s Hotel Americano and the Annabelle Selldorf building on West 19th Street. Shigeru Ban’s Metal Shutter House and Studio Gang’s Solar Carve building both drew compliments — Daniel Lobitz, a partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, said he admired the facteted corners on the Studio Gang building — but there was a general agreement that all these architects have done much better work elsewhere.
Elihu Rubin, an associate professor of urbanism at the Yale School of Architecture, said the aesthetic of the corridor is very much technofuturist, a sort of new baroque architecture that makes a spectacle of technical innovation. “But,” he said, “I think it’s a little depressing to see so much effort and resources and skill and talent being given over to elite and exclusive environments instead of for public infrastructure. It has this late-capitalist last-gasp-of-decadence feel to it.
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