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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:27:18 +0530
These 3 city blocks go straight up
Architect Koolhaas is bringing his unorthodox style to Jersey City
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
BY RUSSELL BEN-ALI
Star-Ledger Staff
The planned demolition of an abandoned tobacco warehouse, focus of a
bitter dispute involving developers, Jersey City officials and artists
who moved in, was likely to anger preservationists bent on saving the
city's industrial district.
So city officials called on a big name yesterday, Dutch architect Rem
Koolhaas, to unveil plans for a 52-story "vertical city" of condos and
art studios that will dramatically change the city skyline as it
replaces the warehouse.
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