31.   These are good questions to be asking in New York, a city where in recent years window dressers and restaurant designers have shown more daring than architects have.

32.   To construct the white, marble-plated skyscraper, the architects had to raze the graceful old Savoy Plaza Hotel.

33.   To attach the glass, the architect had wood studs placed in the wall.

34.   Yet there is something poignant about the fact that both architects now have to pass a baton they have held so briefly.

35.   Architects had to carefully plan the site to properly channel the water that flows through the building, she said.