Downtown, Can The Whitney Live Up To Its Past?

“Critics don’t normally weigh in at this stage of a design or dwell on the many tricky decisions involved in maintaining the design’s integrity in the face of financial pressures. But in this case those pressures are unusually intense, and the way they are resolved will determine the answer to [this] question … : Will the final result be an experience as good as — or better than — Marcel Breuer’s Whitney?”