Architecture review: DDG’s 345Meatpacking is one of the better buildings in the neighborhood

From the February issue: This past summer, those who made it to the western-most portion of 14th Street were likely to be dazzled (and perhaps confounded) by the sight of an enormous 11-story box, covered in what must surely have been the most expensive wrapping paper in human history. The wrapping — actually construction netting designed by famed Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama — was a convoluted affair of snakelike, black branches against a yellow background. The site would be immediately familiar to anyone who visited Kusama’s contemporaneous retrospective at the Whitney Museum. [more]