After 50 years, Lincoln Center still offers plenty to criticize

摘要

There's a grotesque disproportion between the 10 years it can take to execute a major architectural project and the 10 minutes it can take to read a review that demolishes it. But a more cautionary chronological measure is the veritable life sentence imposed upon the public by poorly designed civic architecture too conspicuous to ignore but too costly to replace, like New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, parts of which annoy me more and more as time goes by.