New Victory Press Mention

This Is New York: Architecture

Publication: New York Magazine

The current incarnation of Times Square - candy colors, schlock and all - is a colossal and coordinated achievement, not least because it was preceded by an assortment of appalling schemes. (As for those warm memories of its porn-palace days, they're romanticizing misery.) Platt Byard Dowell's symbol of the district's renewal is this collection of rehearsal studios with a glass facade clad in nothing but colored lights. A luminous wand stands guard out front, announcing, This is where the action is!