n Personal reflections on the best of 20th-century
American architecture.
Grand Central Terminal
The great American architect Philip Johnson was 7 years old when Grand Central Terminal was completed in 1913. The building "is the belly button of New York. It centres you so you know where you are in relation to the city," he says.
He has grown up with it and for him it is "the greatest room in New York. It is timeless, this people's pleasure dome, this cathedral of New York....this room was built for pleasure, splendour. It is frivolous - it is a preposterous building." Director Sandra Goldbacher Producer Ruth Rosenthal