Submitted by Patrick, Jan 21, 2007 22:33

"... would have been unimaginable in New York, where Mr. Gehry's one completed structure to date, the Sails, on 18th Street and 11th Avenue, is a far tamer and inferior product." And yet it is a product that fits into its setting - perhaps the only Gehry building that has ever made the attempt. LA of course doesn't have "setting", which is why Gehry can get away his usual outlandishness. To condemn an architecture on the grounds that it actually pays attention to its surroundings is so typical in an America which now far more resembles LA than NY.

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