Architecture review: Brutalism revisited

Cary Tamarkin turns neo-modernism on its head with West Chelsea condo

508 West 24th Street
508 West 24th Street

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From the August issue: Contemporary architecture in New York City tends to come in one of three broad formal categories: the deconstructivist style of Frank Gehry’s 8 Spruce Street, the neoclassicism associated with Robert A.M. Stern’s 15 Central Park West, and the neo-modernism that inspired Shigeru Ban’s Metal Shutter Houses On West 19th Street and Jean Nouvel’s 40 Mercer in Soho. [more]