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[Greenwich Village -- New York]

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"... the star architect Richard Meier, the man behind the Getty Museum and a career full of knockoffs of the white geometries of Le Corbusier, has designed two boxes ... They will bring darkness to the cobbled charm of little Charles Lane. Their only distinctions are the Orwellian names of their developer, the Sunshine Group, and of Mr Meier's design firm: Architectural Landmarks." (Comment: Buildings, wsj_01.07.25)

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[The National Gallery of Australia Addition, Canberra, Australia]

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"Supporters of the original architect, 70-year-old Mr Colin Madigan, are considering whether new 'moral rights' laws protecting artists' integrity could be used successfully to demand changes more sympathetic to the award-winning building." (Lauren Martin, smh_01.06.27)
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"I hope we'll be seen to be complementing a major work of architecture in a fine and sensitive and forceful way, rather than a reticent kind of addition ... I followed its construction when I was an architecture student -- it's clearly an icon. ..." (Peter Tonkin, in Lauren Martin, smh_01.06.27)
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"But the general public have never been that fond of the building, according to the gallery's research ... The public votes with its feet in terms of where they enter the building -- and largely they enter through pretty much the back entrance." (Peter Tonkin, in Lauren Martin, smh_01.06.27)

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