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High life

My New York is gone forever. The internet has seen to that

The Fountainhead was a great movie but lousy architecture. Now all we have is the lousy architecture

5 April 2014

9:00 AM

5 April 2014

9:00 AM

 New York

Back to the mythic city, dreamed into existence by the movies long ago and instantly memorable, a visually stunning place built for action and adventure, a city of broad avenues and narrow side streets, of soaring towers and grubby tenements, all giving an air of, as Humphrey Bogart drawled in The Maltese Falcon, what dreams are made of.

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