This video (via Open Culture) tells us about the little known practice of hollowing out residential buildings in NYC and converting the interiors to other uses such as subway facilities.
It resembles facadism, an architectural practice that preserves the front of a building with new buildings erected behind or around it, often done to maintain historic streetscapes. Here is a photo I took in Paris a few decades ago that demonstrates how it’s done:
The Gentle Author at the wonderful Spitalfields Life blog deplores the practice in modern London. He has written a whole book (which I have) about what he calls a “painfully cynical trend”.
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