On Charles, in charge

From left: Richard Cook and 150 Charles Street in the West Village

From the June issue: It is almost hard to imagine that the firm of CookFox, which gave the world One Bryant Park, could have produced a building like 150 Charles Street, whose aesthetics are so vastly different. One Bryant Park is, of course, that towering, gleaming white monument to Deconstructivist asymmetry that sits on the northwest corner of 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue. [more]