the polaris

i was afraid of what they were doing when i saw it all draped in plastic --- basically they demolished the old blue dome and approximated it with a new one --- coincidentally a friend showed me a big chunk of the original plexi today --- the new dome has more ribs and the panels are flat, not slumped like the original --- they have thoroughly destroyed the architectural detail of portman's original lobby, one of the finest designs of the late twentieth century ---