Submitted by Sir Joshua, Oct 31, 2006 08:36

'"tradition of radicalism." on the Upper East Side???? Architects are the worst when it comes to egomania. As James Gardner says, the Whitney and the Guggenheim, surely the only two really radical buildings on the upper East Side, respect their neighborhoods and FIT IN. His domus erectus is a pure crass commercial flogging by Sotheby's being proposed for CASH purposes.

The Landmarks Preservation Committee is a famously difficult and overly opinionated, meddlesome, pain in the posterior for virtually every home-owner in a designated area. Granted they have a function, but people's backyards are not part of their job discription. Now is the time for them to function and stop this nonsense, this carrot from being stuck on top of Sotheby's building. Granted that part of the Upper East Side is a sewer of commercialism but the Sotheby's building is a good looking functional building ... why kill it for a couple of bucks?

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