Concrete Behemoths in the Morning Light
Briefly

Owen Davies describes his experience of New York during the lockdown, noting how the city's unique light transformed his perception of concrete buildings, particularly brutalist architecture, into 'monuments... of a failed utopia.'
Davies recalls his first encounter with a deserted New York, remarking on the Art Moderne bathhouse at Jacob Riis Park: 'It just looked otherworldly to me... as if it had been sent down by a spaceship.'
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