One of the architects designing a building in the Greenwich Street district found to his considerable surprise that he could not do the tower surrounded by plaza space that had become the usual formula for the prestige office structure. He was outraged at such interference with his artistic prerogatives particularly when he discovered that he was up against a law which could only be amended by the Planning Commission and the Board of Estimate The creativity of the individual architect is subordinated to the design of the district. This principle had been debated and accepted by New York architects when the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects supported the passage of the Lincoln Square special district