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| | Boho Renaissance: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com |
 | | The first sign of change on the Bowery came in 2003, when the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the city's most determinedly avant-garde art institution, announced that it was hiring the Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, of the firm Sanaa, to design a home for its collection, at the corner of Prince Street. |
 | | Sejima and Nishizawa described the Bowery as "tough … less a boundary than a neutral 'demilitarized' zone between neighborhoods." Their building, a tower of galvanized zinc-plated steel, is scheduled to be finished later this year. |
 | | Turning the "Tower of Bowery," as the real-estate blog Curbed had come to call the unfinished building, into a luxury hotel was an even bigger challenge than the one Goode and MacPherson had faced in their first hotel project, when they transformed the old headquarters of the National Maritime Union into the Maritime Hotel. |
| www.vanityfair.com /culture/features/2007/03/bowery200703 (1263 words) |
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