In an interview, starchitect Bjarke Ingels talks about his plans for NYC, including "the Big U," an eight-mile barrier to protect Manhattan from storms. "Once you get though all the bureaucracy, politics, liabilities and technical issues, you create precedent," architecture's it-boy says. "Precedent is a way to eliminate the Catch-22 that nobody wants to do anything until someone else has already done it." [The Real Deal; previously]
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