re: Times Square Hilton Hotel to "permantly close"

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Awful architecture. Awful area to stay in NYC.

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One of the major criticisms that the Marriott Marquis faces today is how it shuts out Times Square and is so inward facing, At the time Time Square was seen as crime ridden and not the destination that it’s become so when designing the hotel he made IT the destination and tried to create a world unto itself (a lot of his buildings seem that way) and it shuts out the street. So you’re left with a building that is hostile to its surroundings and as the area was cleaned up it seems to be a relic of the past.

Add to it that it’s yet another brutalist monstrosity there’s no reason to try to preserve or keep it around other than the fact that it’s built and demolishing it would be incredibly expensive and logistically challenging. As a nation I’d be in favor of starting a fund to help cities get rid of their brutalist architecture with the stipulation that no new brutalist buidings be allowed and ideally the replacements wouldn’t be glass curtains either. Especially in DC which is plagued with brutalist garbage, I think Trump had the right idea that government buildings in particular need to have a classical style. And if the Marquis hotel in NYC was replaced I would love for it to be replaced with something Art Deco and utilized brick or stone as much as possible.