Architecture critics detest Trump complex on Riverside South
Xanadu Mall in NJ is almost as bad a a Trump project.
In the New York region, "the only thing comparable would be Trumpville on the West Side Highway. It beats Xanadu in its sheer mass, and its brutal imposition on the eyes of millions of people."
MELISSA LAFSKY
Editor in chief of the Web site The Infrastructurist
I know various people have said the whole Trump complex on Riverside South is worse, and it is pretty bad."
PAUL GOLDBERGER
Architecture critic of The New Yorker
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Fix Xanadu? The Problem May Be Where to Begin
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Published: April 1, 2011
Architectural experts offer thoughts on rescuing a stalled New Jersey Meadowlands mall project that has already soaked up $2 billion.