It’s not a trip to NYC without a visit to my beloved Hearst Tower

The stone base was completed in 1928 as the foundation for a matching tower that got put on hold during the Depression and never got built. The magnificent new diagrid tower was added in 2016 and rises in a muscular, majestic dialogue with its citadel-like base. It’s all but a literal diamond shimmering among the grand old and shiny new architecture just south of Columbus Circle, and I make a point to stop by and say hi every time I’m here.