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New York Magazine Building Survey

September 17, 2008


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Avalon Bowery Place New 42nd Street Studios The Lyric 173 and 176 Perry Street 497 Greenwich Street Porter House
Credit: (Photo: From left: NYC Municipal Archives; Rebecca Sahn)
New York Magazine's architecture critic asks: Does the new see-through city look better or worse than the one it replaced?
Read the feature: The Glass Stampede

Avalon Bowery Place

11 and 22 East 1st Street
The developer AvalonBay paired Arquitectonica with SLCE, hoping the two firms would cook up something spirited. What we got is pretty blah, but not without traces of urbanistic merit, thanks to a community garden on one side and a suggestive alleyway on the other. A poor replacement, even for just tenements.


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