Mall In Manhattan Still Pretty Much Just A Mall

We stopped into the Whole Foods at the Time Warner Center yesterday and spent about one sixteenth of our conversation discussing the various design elements (we are visual critics, after all, work to live and live to work). First, there are way too many wack-ass details and prisms for a glass building. Second, the graphics for Jazz at Lincoln Center pretty much define tacky. Third, we want Whole Foods to be our mommy. We don’t think we’re alone here.