Conceived for the impossible task of serving as an alibi, if not an apology, for the $25-billion development at New York's Hudson Yards, the Shed, the 200,000-square-foot nonprofit art space that…
Plus, a visit to a piece by Siah Armajani, the anti-Thomas Heatherwick, in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
The Shed wants to be grand. The Shed wants awe. The Shed wants to look like a spaceport.
The 102,000-square-foot institution opens in Cape Town this month.
When plans for Thomas Heatherwick's $150 million public sculpture for the Hudson Yards real-estate development in Manhattan were unveiled to the public last week, my jaw dropped. The project, titled V…