The Worst Buildings in New York

Three weeks after the American Institute of Architects published its survey of America’s best loved buildings, monuments and bridges, the website gridskipper has come up with its own rundown of the ugliest buildings in New York. There are some choices, like Norman Foster’s Hearst Tower, that I disagree with completely. But most of the list strikes me as exactly right. In my dreams I, too, frequently speed around the city with a wrecking ball, cheerfully pulverizing the Pan Am building, Philip Johnson’s pompous Museum of Television and Radio — a post-modern castle keep for a museum of 20th century media; go figure — and anything that says Trump.