New York Magazine asks the question nobody else would: Why no big budget museum expension for Staten Island? It's so audacious I wouldn't even think of asking it myself. Somehow, SI has added itself to the real estate zeitgeist (to the extent one can argue New York is a reflection of reality). We were already shocked when the mag recently listed St. George as one of the last places in NYC to find a real estate deal. Wait a minute, could it be that New York's publisher Larry Burstein now owns some property here or something?
The fact that they used the words "Forgotten" and "Staten Island" in the same sentence tells me that Kevin Walsh's top-secret subliminal messaging plan to make everyone aware of the forgotten borough (NY's words, not mine) may actually be working. It's worked on us, at any rate.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
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The article failed to mention that the planned new building for the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences was being designed by architect Peter Eisenman, FAIA and would have been an outstanding addition to the St. George waterfront. Its a shame that the budget matters and other factors killed the project. What with the outstanding design of the renovated Ferry Terminal designed by HOK, the St. George waterfront would have had a couple of world-class modern buildings, something that this Island needs more of. As for the museum, I hope that its new home at Snug Harbor will be as architecturally significant as the Eisenman building would have been. If the Bronx can get Arquitectonica and the Brooklyn Museum can get a terrfic entrance by Polshek Partnership, this Island is certainly desrving of great architecture.
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