Compound on Park.

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 19-MAR-07

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It is probably safe to assume that Santiago Calatrava is the only architect in New York who lives in a town house on Park Avenue. It is an even surer bet that Calatrava is the only architect who has what amounts to a compound of three town houses on Park Avenue. A few years ago, Calatrava, who designed the soaring train station planned for Ground Zero, decided to move his family from Zurich to New York. He purchased an 1885 Queen Anne-style town house with bay windows, one of a pair on the east side of the avenue between Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Streets, and among the few surviving private houses anywhere on Park. "We had stayed around there in hotels, and you get used...

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