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Karrie Jacobs

June 28, 1999 | Cityscape
Fat City

Strip away the genially glitzy signage, the oddly beautiful armature, and 4 Times Square -- a.k.a. the Condé Nast tower -- is an office building with a weight problem.

September 13, 1999 | Feature
Architecture: Designer Marriage

An exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt shows that Charles and Ray Eames did a lot more than design the world's comfiest chair.

October 5, 1998 | Feature
Hoopless Dreams

The NBA Store Plays Ralph Lauren's Game

March 16, 1998 | Feature
Faulty Towers

Old buildings may send the occasional cornice hurtling to the street, but it’s modern architecture we should really fear.

October 4, 1999 | Cityscape
Architecture 101

New student-activities centers at Columbia and NYU expose the complex and sometimes contentious relationships between two schools and their neighbors.

July 12, 1999 | Cityscape
Robert Moses Lives

A cunning plan to cover the West Side rail yards with a vast park and commercial ventures -- with a stadium in the Hudson on the side -- has a master builder's grandiosity.

October 12, 1998 | Cityscape
New Train of Thought

The restored Grand Central is lovely, but is strict preservation the best approach to the West Side train station? Let's atone for the loss of Penn Station by learning not to fear the future.

June 29, 1998 | Cityscape
Cineplex Odious

Outsize movie theaters are making new apartment towers uglier than they've ever been. So don't blame the architects for these big boxes. Blame Hollywood.

August 10, 1998 | Feature
Site Lines: Coming Full Circle

The Coliseum site gets the building it almost had in 1989.

July 27, 1998 | Feature
Site Lines / Dressed to Shill:
The Bus Terminal Gets a Madison Avenue Makeover
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