Blumenfeld's proposal for an 11-story apartment building on the strip of land behind the Rodin Museum - just approved by the Art Commission - "would dramatically alter the experience by cutting off the northern third of the block. The Rodin would no longer be a building in space. It would appear visually jammed on a smaller, less serene, less countrified site...Won't someone in City Hall please come to the rescue of this Philadelphia treasure?" [The Inky]
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