As the last piece of Riverside South clicks into place, JDavidsonNYC writes that it's better than we had a right to expect
Waterline Square, at the southwest corner of the Upper West Side. Photo: Elizabeth Felicella On one of those summer days so hot and thick that the brain goes into standby mode, I duck gratefully into Harry’s Table, the Cipriani-branded Italophile snack shop and grocery at Waterline Square.
Waterline Square is the last puzzle piece in the 57-acre site high above the Hudson River that grew slowly southward from West 72nd Street to West 59th Street, covering what was once an uncrossable swath of rail tracks. Developers salivated over the area starting in the early 1960s and floated an assortment of doomed plans.
That statement proved accurate, except for the last word. Despite all the dire predictions, the plan did improve, going from worse to bad. But once construction began in the mid-1990s and Trump spun off the property, it soon became clear that the design guidelines were too vague to prevent blandification. An 87-year-old Philip Johnson signed on to co-author just the kind of architecture he cared least about, the stepped-back, Art Deco–ish, resoundingly bourgeois residential building.
New York has some notable examples of roughly homogeneous, master-planned campuses with individual buildings designed by disparate architects: the U.N., Lincoln Center, the World Trade Center, and Hudson Yards come to mind. What’s rarer is for one auteur’s vision to impose itself in such fine-grained detail on other architects of drastically different sensibility.
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