Why is there a shrunken replica of a 2,000-year-old Roman temple on West 51st Street?

At the start of a new year, I always find myself looking to re-orient perspective toward the near future. It’s not about behavioral resolutions or promises—I make those, but usually around my birthday—but more re-turning my sense of the world around me and its futurity.

With that in mind, I’ve been reassessing my typical bike ride up and down the west side of Manhattan. For the past few years, the western edge of midtown Manhattan has increasingly displaced the Highline’s run in Chelsea as the site of contemporary starchitecture. Starting from Studio Gang’s elegant Solar Carve at 10th Avenue and 13th Street, one passes

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