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June 19, 2007
Marcel Breuer makes the NYTimes
The New York Times covers the Marcel Breuer tower story in Cleveland - which you may have read about here first. The best new thing in their story is this:
County leaders and preservationists agree on the tower’s shortcomings. By modern standards, its layout and ceiling heights are cramped. Its mechanical systems, designed for a building twice its size, are outdated and overly large. Its porthole windows provide terrible insulation.Some government officials have grown tired of pointing all this out.
“We represent the philistine position, those people who are too stupid to realize the architectural significance of this building,” David Lambert, assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor, said dryly at a recent meeting of the Cleveland Planning Commission.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 19, 2007 9:44 AM