New York has a piece this week about how Robert Scarano may get his architecture license revoked. That’s not really news, but it gives the mag an excuse to rate Scarano’s buildings according to a “Shoddy Meter” (53 Java, where a truck recently overturned and damaged a neighboring building, gets top shoddy honors, beating out 333 Carroll Street, above). In the most interesting bit of the article, Scarano defends himself by saying his work as an architect doesn’t have bearing on all aspects of individual construction jobs. To say that the architect has some all-encompassing role in the overall construction activity is not the way that this process happens, he says. I am confident that the work we do is proper, accurate, complete, and meets all of the requirements of the zoning resolutions and build codes. (Numerous architects have made the same point in this forum.) And so it remains to be seen whether the state’s education department agrees with him.
De Blasio Continues To Go After Scarano [Brownstoner]
He Built This Borough (Badly) [NY Magazine]