Rendering of Fashion Week at Lincoln Center
The frontispiece of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, which moved from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center, is a broad, flat, monolithic structure that has set up temporary residence in the interstitial space that separates the David H. Koch Theater from the Metropolitan Opera House and that opens up to the Damrosch Park, where the shows are being held. As temporary structures go, this is an impressive looking thing, its dense and pale façade seeming -- visually -- to be joined at a single, perilously insufficient point to an all too flimsy base. The most striking element of its design, however, is the abundance of travertine stone that you see covering its façade. There is so much of it that you might imagine that to build it they had to deplete the quarries of Tivoli, near Rome, where the use of the stone originated in antiquity.
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