Threshold

After the Great Fire of 1876, architectural innovation occurred, according to George Kubler, because Chicago was the center of "a region with many unfulfilled needs, having the wealth to satisfy them." Such conditions exist in New York now.

From affordable housing to superlative schools, from contemplative havens to dynamic workplaces: what forms, what buildings, what urban inspirations will rise from this city of innovators?

Look to the waterfront, look to the skyline, look to the streets that quicken our heartbeat. As the poet Marjorie Agosin wrote: "on the threshold of dreams / the city was a canvas / of stone.