yeah that was my read—like it seems like this could inject some arbitrariness back into a system that was actually functioning to permit housing and maybe even slow things as every developer tries to get spot zoning approval instead of just working within the established framework

pretty indifferent to judy chicago’s late work, but this would’ve been a cool public way to put a bow on her career

also have we heard anything about the sculpture they’ve apparently commissioned to replace the dubuffet outside of the building?!

100%

richard prince is garbage though, what a downgrade

please do!

Living in this country, it’s just a reality that the left and liberals are expected to do more and uphold more. I don’t know how you can come away with any other conclusion than that when you flip the script on the above premise.

thank you!!

i found the interior unexpectedly warm, it’s a really moving space

awesome construction photos

1938 aerial vs. 2024 aerial

it's obvious in retrospect, but i didn't realize that st. mary's was the unplanned beneficiary of a large urban renewal clearance project that flattened this part of western addition in the late 1950s

critics so savaged the archdiocese’s original choice of architects—the relatively unheralded local partnership lee, ryan & mcsweeney—that they went out and added pietro belluschi and pier luigi nervi to the team and gave them free rein