Thearea has thusbeen redesigned as the naturalcontinuationof the park, which bends to form the architecturalvolume whose sill is transformed frompavementtoroof.
Large-scale protagonists occupy a shallow frieze across the canvas, with a substantial volume of space evoked by means of gesture, architectural settings, glimpses of landscape and, above all, relationships of opulent hues burgundy, scarlet, salmon, creamy off-whites, dull greens, saturated ultramarine, chalky cerulean.
Is it my imagination or did the rise of expense-account restaurants purposely building-in conversation-evaporating high-volume noise levels (partly by not building in the architectural elements that muffle them) coincide with the market run-up to 2008?
While Mr. Cave is widely considered to be one of very few people who could write a definitive architectural and social history of New York real estate, that is one volume we are unlikely to enjoy soon.