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Compound on Park.

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 19-MAR-07

Author: Goldberger, Paul
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COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

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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