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NY Times Architecture Critic's Tear Down Wish List

<p>Trump Place, just south of Riverside Park, of which Ouroussoff says: "Viewed from the West Side Highway its regimental rows have the mind-numbing regularity of Soviet-style housing."</p>



<p>Penn Station and Madison Square Garden: "What replaced [the old, glorious Penn Station] is one of the city’s most dehumanizing spaces: a warren of cramped corridors and waiting areas buried under the monstrous drum of the Garden."</p>



<p>The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center: "The site would serve better as housing than as a shed for dog shows and car fanatics."</p>



<p>The "Sculpture for Living" at Astor Place: "Clad in garish green glass, it rests on a banal glass box that houses — what else? — rows of A.T.M.’s inside a Chase bank."</p>