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So writes the New York Times’s architecture critic this week, citing the Parrish Art Museum’s plans for a new home in Long Island’s Hamptons. Originally, Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron had designed a lavish, village-like cluster of pavilions, but when the museum couldn’t raise money for the project, a more modest proposal, less than a third of the original $80 million cost, was offered. For the Times’s Nicolai Ouroussoff, it’s far from a poor design; he’s even reminded of some of Frank Gehry’s revolutionary work from the mid-’80s. But he’s still concerned that it points toward a trend of reduced creative experimentation in architecture, even if the crassness and excesses of the past decade make a welcome exit.

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