Tells how the statuary is bolted to the building; proposed pigeon-proofing, etc.
The lumpy "walkie talkie" building proposed for Fenchurch Street has also had very mixed reviews.
The immediate threat, say preservationists, is a 32-story residential building proposed for Washington Street, near Little West 12th Street.
The new building proposed by the Dursts is an indication of how the needs of high-tech tenants are changing the way buildings are being designed.
The building proposed was divided into two: a huge top-lit humanities reading room served by underground bookstacks, and the Science Reference Library, which was a linear open-access library.
Although some found it "a magnificent new building, in keeping with the Upper East Side's varied architectural heritage of the last century," the group wrote, "others were frankly horrified at such an ersatz historical building proposed for the 21st century".
And a fourth pharmaceutical company, Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, hopes to double its Cambridge footprint, occupying a 250,000-square-foot building proposed in Central Square, just down Massachusetts Avenue from M.I.T. Trends in philanthropy are helping Cambridge, as well.
At Stuyvesant Cove, a two-acre park along the East River, the use of sun and water for heating, cooling and lighting will be featured at the Environmental Learning Center, a building proposed for the site (Nov. 1).
They say the building proposed by the developer John Gruen, which would replace a small art gallery that once served as a dentist's office, would be too big and disrupt an historic streetscape.
Plans called for a cylindrical, drum-shaped building proposed by Noguchi, with a ground-floor storage and display area for the sets he had designed for Graham, and a second-floor theater space for performances.
