Like two siblings who tease each other relentlessly, New York City and London are more alike than they prefer to admit. A conference sponsored by the British Council for Offices last month in Manhattan demonstrated how these cities often copy each other’s best practices for competing in today’s global economy—and architecture, it turns out, is increasingly important to both.
“For a long time, high quality design was seen as an inefficiency,” observed Mark Wigley, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture. “Today it’s seen as leverage.”
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