Jean Nouvel at the launch for 53W53 in New York, a 1,050-foot tower at 53 West 53rd Street in Manhattan. Photograph: Billy Farrell and Neil Rasmus/BFA

“Everything will become infrastructure bathed in artificial light and energy,” wrote French theorist Jean Baudrillard in America, part-travelogue, part-cultural critique, in 1989. “The brilliant superstructure, the crazy verticality will have disappeared. New York is the final fling of this baroque verticality, this centrifugal eccentricity, before the horizontal dismantling arrives, and the subterranean implosion that will follow.”.......Continue Reading

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