One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.
Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.
New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.
The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.
Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.'
It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
What I'll remember about New York is growing up really fast.
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?