Piano Whitney Clunker; Snohetta San Francisco Behemoth: Review

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The latest design for the $210 million Whitney Museum of American Art looks like a top-heavy container ship run aground in Manhattan’s Chelsea district.

The metal-paneled building by busy architect Renzo Piano makes nothing of a richly textured neighborhood. Did he never take in the golden light reflected from the Hudson River?