“Ubiquitous as glass condo buildings have lately become – glass is the new white brick – New York’s wealthy, unlike their Mies van der Rohe-dwelling counterparts in Chicago, have always equated stone with substance.”
– From “Past perfect: retro opulence on Central Park West,” by Paul Goldberger, in the Aug. 27, 2007 issue of The New Yorker. The piece profiles 15 Central Park West, a limestone-clad condo building designed by Robert A.M. Stern to evoke the prewar era.
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