Jeremiah Budin reports for Curbed. All renderings ©COOKFOX <div><a href=”http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/10/16/revised_cookfox_puzzle_building_approved_by_landmarks.php”><img src=”http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/525ea792f92ea158b900491a/23rdSt_05.jpg” width=”500″ height=”372″></a><br /><a href=”http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/10/16/revised_cookfox_puzzle_building_approved_by_landmarks.php” style=”font-size: 9px; text-align: center;”>Click here to view the full photogallery.</a></div>COOKFOX’s crazy cantilevered building proposal for 39-41 West 23 Street divided the Landmarks Commission when it was presented last month. A revised version of the design, simplified and toned down slightly, was presented yesterday and, although

After the complete rapture that was 688 Broadway, it would have been pretty tough to get the Landmarks Preservation Commission all that excited about another building yesterday. As it turned out, the Carlos Zapata-designed 22 West 24th Street didn’t have much of a chance in the first place. After a presentation in which Zapata laid out his firm’s methods of

Jeremiah Budin reports for Curbed. ;div><a href=”http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/09/25/cookfox_reimagines_pope_hat_building_as_crazy_3d_puzzle.php”><img src=”http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/5242f4a7f92ea172650303fe/8D3FH1ne_-JaToCLFam_LmJzdmiS0WEI5go-Ir9Ha9g,f7SqZim0P7IVVWP7gUHnZYJNTJdpq45O69MTfY_S0-A,WONCeM7r83ZTOrP9zhChIu7RoCr97jin4KmDfTr6DRs,0bpulfXhhy3fGhohWvtXI6wuXm-dhIBAZITX3SJX10s.jpeg” width=”500″ height=”433″></a><br /><a href=”http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/09/25/cookfox_reimagines_pope_hat_building_as_crazy_3d_puzzle.php” style=”font-size: 9px; text-align: center;”>Click here to view the full photogallery.</a></div>Carlos Zapata’s Pope Hat Building was one of the wackiest designs we’ve seen around these parts—in a historic district, no less—so it was with some sadness that we watched the plans for it slowly fizzle out over the years.