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Reflections on the waterfront

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While the new Richard Meier-designed apartment towers between Perry and Charles Sts. are frequently perceived as inappropriately large and non-contextual, Westbeth artist Toni Dalton, who has watched the stages of their construction, also sees something interesting in them. Red fencing ringing open floors on the third tower now under construction was to her reminiscent of a Chinese pagoda, while the reflection of the three buildings in the Hudson River one evening had an Impressionistic feeling.