Newsday from New York, New York • 114

VM. A Part III Monday Conform New Yorks building designers pay attention to neighborhood David Childs, right, redesigned a Columbus Circle complex to reflect the neighborhood. Costas Kondylis, below right, did the same to conform with Brighton Beach. John Burgee, below left, says Lipstick building fits quirky Third Avenue. I Newsdmrlas Newaday Osier Muhammad By Hairy Berkowitz HEN DONALD TRUMPS plana for an Upper West Side megaprqject ran into a firestorm of opposition, he dumped flamboyant architect Helmut Jahn and turned to community-minded planner Alexander Cooper.

When developer Mortimer Zuckerman was scrambling to rescue his giant condominium and office complex at Columbus Circle, he switched from Moshe Safdies space-age design to David Childs more traditional look. And just this month, when Stephen Muss was forced to scale down plans for Brooklyns biggest residential waterfront complex, he picked Costas Kondylis to redesign the project to fit in with the Brighton Beach neighborhood. In the face of increasingly strong and sophisticated community resistance to large or intrusive projects especially in the past five or six years developers in New York have been forced to pay more attention to a buildings neighbors and neighborhoods. As a result, they have sought architects and designs that will win enough favor from civic groups or planners to overcome roadblocks that could delay or kill a project. We have come a ways from the time, perhaps ten years ago, where architecture wanted only to make a statement and that statement could be made without reference to surrounding buildings or surrounding neighborhoods, said Samuel Lindenbaum, one of the citys Continued on Page 10 Plastic Profit Entrepreneurs Mine Mountains of Trash.

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