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Fox & Fowle's new Reuters tower in Times Square is a clumsy assemblage of unrelated parts. Ned Cramer pieces the puzzle together.
With apologies to Chicago, New York is the first city of the skyscraper. There, especially, builders of high-rises aspired to something finer than mere height, and, even amid the belt-tightening of the Depression, attained it in the noble proportions and powerful iconography of the Chrysler and Empire State buildings. But in these ostensibly better times, Fox & Fowle's newly completed Times Square headquarters for Reuters falls short of the civic responsibilities of architectural patronage.
This latest upstart on the New York City skyline lacks the attenuated elegance of its predecessors, which is due-at least in part-to the contemporary market's demand for larger floor...