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This weekend’s mammoth Gray Lady brought what at first glance seemed like a shockingly newsworthy story by none other than two-time WTC memorial competition entrant Fred A. Bernstein. In the wake of Thomas Shine’s lawsuit against SOM Goliath David Childs, it seemed the whole architectural profession might be taking a turn for the atypical, the entire gentilely understood process of “homage” and “reference” being taken for what it so often is: outright plagiarism. Bernstein writes:

When colleagues at SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli opened a copy of L’Arca magazine, they were struck by a proposal for a Marseilles, France, skyscraper by the architect Zaha Hadid.

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