Our Former Optimism

This residential building along the High Line in New York City makes a space age architectural statement.

Its design purposefully asks if there are ways to look at buildings as something other than the box. Curves instead of straight lines. Aluminum instead of wood. Walls of glass rather than small portals of light.

Architecture tells us something of the cultural moment in which it was designed and built. In this case, this building speaks to an America, and a New York, limited only by imagination. We can shape any steel, any form, any structure to our liking. We have put a man on the moon. What else can we do? What can’t we do?