Say what you will about third term victor Bloomberg’s politics, or financial largesse, but his mayoral legacy is solidified in large part by his Design and Construction Excellence Initiative (DCE) and subsequent Department of Design and Construction (DDC), which have turned what was once the “ugly stepchild” of the architecture profession – government bids – into one hot ticket. New York magazine profiled several institutional projects in this week’s issue, highlighting libraries and firehouses in the outer boroughs. As especially fond fans of firehouse design (seriously, check out the fonts on even the crappiest 1970s iterations), we’ve selected a few after the jump.
