Was this building influenced at all by Unite d’Habitation by Le Corbusier in Marseille?

SH: Our building is quite a bit different, but certainly the notion of color we can trace to Corbusier, but our color is actually related to structural energy of the building, the actual structural diagram. Different forces are represented by different colors on the façade. VB: What is your dream project?

SH: I have a dream project every day! VB: So what is it today? SH: Well, my real dream project is the High line (Holl is pointing to the abandoned elevated railroad link, the good part of which is just one block away from his office, right above Penn Station yards).

I’ve been working on the possibilities for what I think is an incredibly important piece of New York City for the last 20 years. One day it will become an elevated green strip that moves through the city. It will be a public space that gives you a different point of view.

Not just elevated point of view, but also sound and silence. You can’t really hear the city from there. It is so quiet and wonderful!

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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