New Yorkers "stuck" because of the state's "negligence", London mayor making roads more dangerous and over-cautious Washington architects miss "engine of change".
"This is a tragedy. New York state had this gem of a bridge in its infrastructure, and it was a bridge they did not take care of. Because of that negligence, people in the Champlain Valley who rely on the bridge every day are stuck."
Burlington Free Press
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"However, if the mayor is serious about improving cyclists' safety he would be increasing the resources available for traffic policing. Instead he is cutting spending on roads policing, making London's roads a lot more dangerous for cyclists, and then blaming the victims."
Bike Radar
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"But there is no missing the fact that, when modernist architecture re-emerged in the 1990s as a tremendously re-energised, reconceptualised, multifaceted, worldwide engine of change, Washington architects just let it whistle on by. It's almost as if a great cosmic switch had been thrown in the Washington sky urging caution above all - caution, caution, caution."
Washington Business Journal
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"We think it’s a good step, but it's not really enough. It doesn't address the problems the city's rezoning creates of enclosing a huge chunk of Coney Island in a wall of high rises."
The Architect's Newspaper
"The trouble with competitions is the same as the trouble with icons. There's a temptation to choose something because it's different rather than because it's right."
BD Online
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