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Alexandra Lange | Essays

Governors Island, ca. 2014?

Image from the long-under-wraps West 8 master plan for Governors Island. City takeover announced Sunday. I remember the mounds from Round One, but I am waiting to see a plan. More here.

The unrenovated island opens to the public June 5. FIGMENT is already planning a new art mini-golf course, and an architect-designed pavilion a la P.S.1.

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Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic, and author of Writing about Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities. (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in The Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Record, Dwell, Metropolis, Print, New York Magazine and The New York Times.

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