paul rudolph’s LOMEX proposal for a new york city that could have been
celebrating what would be paul rudolph?s 100th birthday, designer lasse lyhne-hansen revisits one of the late american architect?s most famous unbuilt proposals: the lower manhattan expressway, one of the last mega plans radically transforming new york city.
in 1967, rudolph was commissioned by the ford foundation to do a study on the implications of the LOMEX, as it was abbreviated and known back then, a robert moses proposal for a Y-shaped corridor that would have destroyed much of what we now know as soho and tribeca. rudolph?s findings led him to believe that the city did not need a road that would sever midtown from downtown but instead, a building spanning the entire width of manhattan. ...
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