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Writing in the January issue, critic Robert Campbell contends that the glass-and-truss tower looks like it was pre-conceived, and then simply deposited on whatever site happened to become available.  Omitting any mention of the building’s ground-breaking environmental features, he likens the new tower rising above the original deco structure to a delinquent teen thumbing his nose at his grandfather.  And he calls the lobby waterfall and escalator, “the kind of cliché you’d expect to find at a Hyatt convention hotel.”  (One imagines Campbell would have a greater appreciation for the tower, if he had ever worked in the 250 West 55th Street building.)  Architectural Record  (January 2008)

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