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It's not the height that bothers me. It's the fugliness of it all. If only they were half way decent looking but I'm sure some people will find them nice.
They're just fine, nobody is going to agree on any design. For every building someone likes, 95% of others won't
They're just fine, nobody is going to agree on any design. For every building someone likes, 95% of others won't
True. I heard the design of the Twin Towers was hotly debated back then. With some people hating the design and others loving it. I liked it. You'd think I wouldn't but oddly enough I liked it okay. At least it was symmetrical, even with clean straight lines. It had this austere beauty... Though some were like, "please, they look like two gigantic kleenix tissue boxes!"
NYC is actually left behind in skyscraper construction. Up and Coming countries,aka Dubai, offer really breathtaking design and build. Like nyc in the 70s 80s , but on steroids.
These feets of construction really let's the world know what's up. People. Still are buying pre construction as real estate value have only one way to go,up up up.
Part 3: The Making of a Supertall Skyscraper: How One Vanderbilt Utilized Zoning Rights Enacted Under Mayor de Blasio
It is 1,401 feet above 42nd Street, about four yards taller than the Empire State Building.
“It’s location, location, location,†says Edward Piccinich of the jaw dropping apartment.“It’s location, location, location,†says Edward Piccinich of the jaw dropping apartment. He is the COO of SL Green Realty Corp. “Whether it’s Central Park or looking downtown, [the] views are spectacular.â€
But for a project like this to come together, one would have to consider a fourth dimension: time.
“We are going to occupy August 4,†says Piccinich. “We’re three months ahead schedule in large measure due to our ability to use 3D drawings.â€
“From the acquisition of the first building on this site, it’s an approximately 20 year odyssey,†says Robert Schiffer, the managing director of investments for SL Green Realty Corp, the city's largest commercial landlord.
The odyssey began when the company started methodically scooping up buildings and development rights, so One Vanderbilt can rise so high.
We needed those super talls. Midtown had too many 700 ft buildings and from a distance it was beginning to look like a flat 700 ft. plateau. Now it looks like a city again.
Not with the 57th street supertalls. I can see these from most of the metropolitan area.
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We needed those super talls. Midtown had too many 700 ft buildings and from a distance it was beginning to look like a flat 700 ft. plateau. Now it looks like a city again.
Not with the 57th street supertalls. I can see these from most of the metropolitan area.
And how is that a bad thing?
Everyone is talking about 432 Park as though it represents *all* current supertalls, but for example the new 111 West 57th is visually and architecturally appealing. The supertall they are building in Brooklyn is going to be a beauty as well.
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