Starchitects Die For Our Sins

Robert Scarano, Brooklyn’s “bad boy” architect should really get a Spitzer-like position with one of the local papers (Brooklyn Paper — where this interview was published — or the Observer or whatever) . . . with no new commissions, he’s chastened, and is now calling it like he sees it:

Gehry’s designs, as magnificent as they are, are not for the faint of heart. They’re only for those with an unlimited budget. When they’re wildly overpriced to begin with, the real drama comes later when there are 80 percent cost escalations. [Forest City Ratner] brought him in to be the main star guy and he had a shelf life, as did Daniel Liebeskind at the World Trade Center. When that shelf life was up, they let him go.