When the Planning Department approved the Riverside Center project, it imposed particularly restrictive design requirements.

WSJ: Architect Switch Irks City Officials

"I am extremely disappointed to learn that the developer of Riverside Center has chosen not to retain Christian de Portzamparc as architect for this project, " said Amanda Burden, director of the Department of City Planning, in an emailed statement Friday.

WSJ: Architect Switch Irks City Officials

The building is to be the first of five planned in Riverside Center, which is the southernmost and final piece of the larger Riverside South apartment development that runs above a former set of Penn Central rail yards by the West Side Highway between 59th and 72nd streets.

WSJ: Architect Switch Irks City Officials

"She was a wonderful woman, " said Karen Chadderton, administrator of Riverside health and Rehabilitation Center in Hartford.

BBC: Mrs Tillman held the title for less than a week