There, Related and its partner, Oxford Properties Group, are partway through erecting the complex, which includes residential space, office space, and a mall-with such stores as Neiman Marcus, Cartier, and Urban Decay, and a Thomas Keller restaurant designed to evoke “Mad Men”-most of it on a platform built over active rail lines. The room was filled with models of Hudson Yards, which is a mile and a half southwest, between Thirtieth and Thirty-third Streets, and between Tenth Avenue and the West Side Highway. We had a view of Columbus Circle and Central Park. Ross was in a meeting room at the Time Warner Center, which his company, Related, built and partly owns, and where he lives and works. Ross told me that there was a presentation, and that he was very impressed by Heatherwick’s “what do you call it-Television? Internet?” An adviser softly said, “PowerPoint?”
Who are the great sculptors?’ ” (Ross pronounced the word “sculptures.”) Before long, he met with Thomas Heatherwick, the acclaimed British designer of ingenious, if sometimes unworkable, things. It has to be monumental.” He went on, “Then I said, ‘O.K. He recalled telling himself, “It has to be big. On a recent morning in Manhattan, he spoke of the moment, several years ago, when he decided that the plaza of one of his projects, Hudson Yards-a Doha-like cluster of towers on Manhattan’s West Side-needed a magnificent object at its center. Stephen Ross, the seventy-seven-year-old billionaire property developer and the owner of the Miami Dolphins, has a winningly informal, old-school conversational style.
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