Maybe because they speak the truth A certain Republican presidential nominee has become infamous for launching vicious middle-of-the-night Twitter attacks on his critics. As we were reminded in the first Presidential debate, these tweetstorms have been directed at, in turn, Miss Universe contestants, the Chinese government, and Rosie O?Donnell. But he?s also lobbed his fair share of 3 a.m. hate-tweets at architecture writers.
When you build some of the biggest (and gaudiest) buildings in U.S. cities, it?s inevitable that your work will eventually be addressed by the design critics in those cities. A great piece in Places Journal looks back at how Trump?s projects were received by legendary critics like Herbert Muschamp and Ada Louise Huxtable. (Spoiler: Not very well; Huxtable called the atrium of Trump Tower a ?pink marble maelstrom.?) Trump?s temper over bad reviews used to manifest in different ways. In 1984, he sued Chicago Tribune critic Paul Gapp for $500 million simply because Gapp criticized Trump?s plan to build a 150-story tower in New York City as "Guinness Book of World Records architecture.? (The case was later dismissed.)
Of course, that was all long before Twitter. Now, Trump can attempt to silence his critics by himself. Critic Paul Goldberger recently reminisced about the time Trump came after him.

Maybe it's time to share one of my favorite tweets. No, I was not fired--that's a Trump invention. So is my fading into irrelevance. https://t.co/WU...