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Karim Rashid has fun with apartment design in Inwood: Architecture review

Designer-architect seems to be single-handedly trying to revive the ‘Mod’ strain of modern architecture

From left: 653 West 187th Street and Karim Rashid
From left: 653 West 187th Street and Karim Rashid

From the August issue: With the possible exception of the Magic Kingdom — “The Happiest Place on Earth,” its slogan says — I am not sure that I have ever seen architecture as fundamentally, giddily, all-conqueringly happy as that of Karim Rashid, the designer of 653 West 187th Street, which will soon rise in the Inwood section of Manhattan. [more]

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