Cooper Square In Flight: In his nearly completed Cooper Square Hotel, Carlos Zapata has created a 22-story tower that exploits, to no memorable effect, this infinite elasticity of postindustrial form. [NY Sun]
Redesigning a Building to Preserve Peace in the Neighborhood: But the new design is more polite and less original, hewing to the reactionary view that most contemporary architecture is best when it is invisible. Little wonder that this neighborhood has not gained a significant new work of architecture in more than a quarter-century. [NY Times]
The last modern architect: Richard Rogers’s achievements as a maker of extraordinary buildings are in danger of being obscured by his status as a new Labour panjandrum. [New Statesman]
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