I was watchful to see what a NY Times’ new design censor would be like. Now that he has pronounced that this building is “handsome,” it is apparent that his sensibilities have been so dulled by brutal, ugly, unclothed modernist buildings that he is relieved to see a brutal, nauseous building that is not utterly as bare.

At slightest he moves over Ouroussoff by saying: “The profession, or in any box most speak about it, has been fixated for too prolonged on brand-name oppulance objects and buildings as sculptures instead of attending to a richer, broader, some-more obligatory capillary of open process and village engagement, in that aesthetics play a part.”

Incidentally, Ouroussoff seemed to skip with really small fanfare. He seems to have been a slightest reputable of new NY Times design critics.

Charles Siegel