![]() The building is far from faultless, but it is gloriously imperfect, frankly attention-getting, and invigorating in its rejection of high gloss and generic bigness. Like the schist outcroppings that rear up a couple of blocks away in Central Park, Gang’s mixture of urban attitude and immemorial forms reminds us that even a megalopolis like ours is just a collection of boxes clinging to a very old boulder. ![]() ![]() It’s a stony portal to a rock hall of fame and a labyrinth of fossils, a gateway to the museum’s explorations of all that’s hidden in the soil. Now, the team led by Jeanne Gang has embodied geological forces in the form of the granite-clad, cavelike Gilder Center, the High-Flintstonian west wing of the American Museum of Natural History. And the Solar Carve office building along the High Line dodges and twists to keep from blocking daylight. The flame-red-and-smoke-gray Rescue Company 2 in Brooklyn serves the fire department. ![]() ![]() Aqua Tower in Chicago ripples like the surface of Lake Michigan. The architecture firm Studio Gang grapples with the Earth’s basic elements. ![]()
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