Mad Architecture

The Old Pennsylvania Station, NYC, 1910-1963, McKim, Mead, and White Architects.

When the original Beaux-Arts station was torn down in 1963 there was such an uproar from the citizens of NYC that the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was established. The loss of historic architecture to make way for future projects is a double-edge sword, what went up in its place is Madison Square Garden. The destruction of this building was featured in an episode of the television series Mad Men.

RIP Christo: If you Could Dream it, You Could Do it.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude "Lower Manhattan Packed Buildings" (Project) (2 Broadway and 20 Exchange Place) Collage 1964-66.

This proposal for a project in Lower Manhattan was rejected but Christo and Jeanne-Claude did get a NYC project called “The Gates” done in 2005. They put orange “gates” in Central Park and the citizens were sorry to see them go when they were taken down.