HISTORICAL DESIGNATIONS MEAN NOTHING IN NYC WHERE MONEY RULES AND A HIDEOUS BAUHAUS NIGHTMARE WILL REPLACE GORGEOUS OLD BUILDING.
Roman Abramovich has won approval to build a $78 million mega-mansion in New York's Upper East Side. The Russian billionaire, who owns Chelsea Football Club, has spent months battling to turn three landmarked townhouses into one 18,000 square-foot, five-storey abode. At first, the plans were rejected as 'uniformity over authenticity'. They proposed to redesign the front of one house to look like the other two.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3643278/Russian-oligarch-Roman-Abramovich-78-million-New-York-mega-mansion-APPROVED-radically-scaling-egregious-design-plans-knock-three-townhouses-together.html
THE PROPOSED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR THIS MONSTER HOME IS HIDEOUS, UNORIGINAL AND A DAMN SHAME
Roman Abramovich has won approval to build a $78 million mega-mansion in New York's Upper East Side. The Russian billionaire, who owns Chelsea Football Club, has spent months battling to turn three landmarked townhouses into one 18,000 square-foot, five-storey abode. At first, the plans were rejected as 'uniformity over authenticity'. They proposed to redesign the front of one house to look like the other two.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3643278/Russian-oligarch-Roman-Abramovich-78-million-New-York-mega-mansion-APPROVED-radically-scaling-egregious-design-plans-knock-three-townhouses-together.html
THE PROPOSED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR THIS MONSTER HOME IS HIDEOUS, UNORIGINAL AND A DAMN SHAME