"It wasn't ICI telling McCutcheon it wanted a glass box for its headquarters," observes heritage architect Peter Lovell.
Their father, an ethnic Chinese immigrant from Malaysia (their mother is a native Australian of Irish and English heritage), is an architect who modeled for his sons the virtue of precise attention to detail.
The company, which declined to comment for this article, has been accused by architects, heritage-preservation organisations and everyday Lebanese of driving out the area's original property owners and unnecessarily demolishing historical buildings.
Many architects and heritage campaigners have opposed the building from the beginning, seeing it as a bullying monument to developers' greed.
"I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, who is an educated man and well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family's life in this country," Glosser wrote in his piece.
I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, who is an educated man and well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family's life in this country.
Ian Harper, an architect with English Heritage said: "The problems with the drought's effect on the clay have emerged recently and we haven't worked out how to prevent it".
Alas, in the years that followed, Chicago architects treated their entire heritage as an old canoe.
Conservators and architects working with built heritage at risk from ground moisture intrusion face a difficult choice.
"The point of the event is really to excite people and interest people about New York's amazing architectural heritage and its future," Scott Lauer, an architect and founder of Open House New York, a nonprofit group that promotes city architecture and design.
It is a rich and varied heritage that the city's new architect mayor, George Ferguson, is only too aware of – and a legacy he is keen to build on.
