This special section of RECORD is unabashedly devoted to New York City. We are not just commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11. We want to give the city its due as a 21st-century design capital. There are more architects here than in any other U.S. city, but for decades, New York didn’t construct many innovative buildings. The city was a think tank for architecture — with its schools, institutes, and critics — a crucible for big ideas that got built elsewhere, if at all.
About ten years ago, that scenario began to shift. Not just because of the international stars who came to design here — Foster, Piano, Nouvel — though they helped raise everyone’s game. There was a change in the culture, a new awareness that all the elements of great cities were here to build on — the streets, the waterfront, the density.
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