Post-I.M. Pei Debacle, NYU Unveils New Expansion Plans

After being forced to scrap their expansion plans last November at the behest of I.M. Pei so as to not upset his 1966 Silver Towers complex, NYU has just unveiled their new plans for the central Washington Square area. While far less towering than the idea before it, the new plan still calls for a massive construction effort (labeled by NYU as a series of “superblocks”), building no fewer than 10 new structures, some as tall as 27 stories, with lots of landscape architecture and attractive through-ways in between.

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