PARK AVENUE 125

Rather than creating a new free-standing building, PA 125 is an addition to existing building, which many -including the client - have deemed ugly, boring and banal. Architects want to save, help, liberate, etc. but what are we really doing?  We are imposing our values on a system and environment that has a meaning and complexity independent of us.Thus, the ambition of the PA 125 was to resist our insatiable desire to ‘solve’ and simply listen, record and mostly importantly learn from the existing building, and suppress any personal intentions or desires.

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