I am so bored by boxes. I know, I know, we need more options than buildings that contort themselves and ask us to look at them. We need buildings that are well behaved, efficient, and blend into the background. We need building blocks for better urbanisms, not urban-scaled sculpture. But do we really need more boxes? Case in point: Earlier this year, the developer David Levinson announced that he was asking some of the world's best architects (at least by his definition) to design a mixed-use high-rise on Park Avenue in New York. Zaha Hadid, Hon. FAIA, was one of those contending to do her first skyscraper, along with OMA and Richard Rogers.
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