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One famous modern building sits empty and forlorn, rain trickling in through broken windows.
Another bustles with renewed fervor as 360 construction workers work day and night on a $20 million renovation that will recapture past architectural glory.
The forgotten Pirelli building on Long Wharf, designed in 1969 by legendary architect Marcel Breuer, today is a place for Ikea to hang banners.
Less than a mile away Tuesday, architecture journalists from across the country converged at the corner of York and Chapel streets for tours of a modern architecture shrine: Yale University's Art & Architecture Building, designed in 1963 by architect Paul Rudolph, at the time dean of the Yale School of Architecture.
There's only one reason Rudolph's building escaped the fate of Breuer's building and many other modernist landmarks in New Haven and elsewhere: Yale and its alumni's very deep pockets. As Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of...