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4 days ago · Ada Louise Huxtable, perhaps one of the most outspoken critics, called the building “a colossal collection of minimums”, with the lobby artwork being a “face-saving gimmick.”
3 days ago · Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in 1974 that the plaza was a "close-to-perfect city space" despite the presence of the General Motors Building, which she saw as the only intrusion onto the plaza. Huxtable thought Hastings's design helped conceptually connect the Sherman monument to the Pulitzer Fountain.
4 days ago · Architectural writer Ada Louise Huxtable said the proposal was "a death-dealing rather than a life-giving 'solution'". By late 1974, the archdiocese had leased all of the Villard Houses to Helmsley for 99 years at around $1 million per year.
4 days ago · Architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable derided the new flag as a "simple-minded, vainglorious proposal" and asked, "Does anyone really want to spend $850,000 to upstage the Statue of Liberty?"
4 days ago · The result was a building that set the tenure of a late 20th-century Park Avenue and a structure that still fascinates New Yorkers today. On August 10, hear firsthand stories of the famed ...
5 days ago · Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable noted in The New York Times, that the University “is probably the single most beautiful and effective architectural group of its kind in the country, or in the history of American building.”
5 days ago · Other inaugural fellows include architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, author Francine Prose, Harvard historian Sven Beckert and attorney and former Black Panther Party leader Kathleen Cleaver, who is a visiting professor at Yale.
