[5][6] In 2022 he created the Mark Foster Gage Foundation, a private charitable organization that funds efforts to improve the built environment through supporting innovative architectural research, education, publications, and projects.
There he teaches graduate-level design courses and seminars on subjects including aesthetics, innovation and the process and implications of architectural decay.
[13] Gage often speaks to the fact that the vast majority of his and his firm's designs go unconstructed, treating the unbuilt as proof that the twenty-first century field of architecture must reexamine its core values.
[18][19][20] His firms diverse output also include an outfit for Lady Gaga, logo designs for the Biden/Harris Presidential Campaign (2020), and the Elanan Capella and Treyam Equinox resorts in the Middle East.
[30] Television coverage of his work has aired on PBS, Fox, and MTV, and he was recently the subject of a documentary segment on the Travel Channel China's program 'Go as Far as You Can' which focuses on international innovators in creative fields.
[31][32] Gage also writes about architecture and design in both academic and popular formats- including books, magazines, and journal articles.
Visitors would not be confined to the indoors, however, as four cantilevered balconies would allow individuals to emerge from the sixty-fourth floor lounge and overlook Central Park.
While the press described the Khaleesi Tower as a "sumptuous crust of carved and gilded forms," an "acid fever dream," and "what might happen if Michelangelo was brought back to life and commissioned to design a skyscraper," the surrounding towers, like Rafael Vinoly’s 432 Park Avenue and Roger Duffy’s 252 East 57th Street have been skewered for their simple designs.