There’s something to be said for being on the radar of Metropolis Magazine. Buffalo has been featured by writer Robert Landon in “Point of View”, referring to the city as a place that is recouping from its pitfalls as it “… Looks to Past Architectural Triumphs to Define Its Future”.
“After 60 years of unrelenting decline, Buffalo is prospering in ways few would have predicted even five years ago. The population has finally stabilized, as children of the suburbs move into repurposed factories and Gilded Age hostelries. Since January 2013 alone, the metropolitan unemployment rate has dropped almost two full percentage points.” – Robert Landon
You can read the entire piece here.
Let’s hope that with recognition like this, and Green Code finally about to go live, The City and various local architects will rethink what it means to build in the future. The best way to honor the legacy of the “starchitects” of the past, is to surround their buildings with others of merit, not mindless infill.