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I'm also not a big fan of Hudson Yards, although there may be one or two buildings there that are OK. I do love the High Line though. Wish DTLA had something like the high line. I guess the Venice boardwalk is sort of like the high line in a way, or at least Coney Island. Equally crowded. If L.A. ever redid the L.A. River like San Antonio (collect/dam the winter floodwaters?) it would have something. Tempe Arizona did a great thing with the Salt River. Made a lake out of it with inflatable dams. Also maybe they could put a roof on the Harbor Freeway & Hollywood Fwy through DTLA and make a linear park like the high line--would link east & west & north & south sides of downtown. . But for DTLA to ever achieve greatness, will have to shelter the homeless. Tents on the sidewalks are so Dickensian. Who can enjoy themselves amidst that misery/squalor? |
Great conversation everyone. I keep finding myself agreeing with every post about skinny towers in Manhatten, no matter what side they are on.
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these new super skinny towers have very unfamiliar proportions, but in a generation or two, they'll just be "classic new york". some people are already there, many aren't. |
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They're common in cities with most or all of this: (a) high parking ratios, (b) tough soils, (c) land use codes that allow above-grade parking, and (d) lower rents. |
Are NYC's "tooth-picks" a welcome curiosity to the skyline? Not sure. The height/width ratio shakes my geek head. Fragile and wind at risk comes to mind though lol.
But typically NYC has built tall and strong. So I've cancelled future tooth-pick proposals. |
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Aesthetically, part of what I find attractive in a skyscraper is it's apparent sturdiness and stability. A slow taper from a wide base is like looking at a mountain. Some of these new super-skinny supertalls are almost unsettling from that perspective. It's the same reason I'm not a big fan of top-heavy designs like Vancouver House. https://images.skyscrapercenter.com/...65_300x415.jpg From: https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/bui...er-house/13987 Once again, all personal preference though. All the power to those pushing the envelope with modern engineering. |
^ a building like that in the subduction zone PNW no less, that's a big no from me.
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^ Wut? :???: I don't even get what your word means.
subduction zone PNW WTF does that mean? That building is a cool piece of structural engineering. That's what you meant. |
^ pacific northwest -- its built in an earthquake zone.
i dk that it really matters with modern engineering, but it sure looks like it might. |
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Ok, I got you guys.
I'd forgotten how huge that Pacific tectonics thing is. You know, it is obvious in California and Chile, not so much up to Canada... Well, fingers crossed, huh. Or some engineers out there will be sentenced to hell. But that building would still stand in my region. Both floods and droughts are our issues over here, but quakes? Nope, we don't have any, so it would be valid out here. |
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It's not the skyline per se, but the density around the Chicago River makes Chicago very unique.
Another skyline that has always impressed me since young kid, is Pittsburgh. The rivers confluence, the park there, and the beautiful buildings with the taller ones behind is incredibly harmonic. Maybe is my favourite in the world. Outside North America, but with its same logic, I like Johannesburg. The very tall office towers, surrounded by smaller ones and with a highrise residential district right there, plus the TV towers. After a while, I learned to enjoy the sea-of-highrise type of skyline present in São Paulo, Buenos Aires, etc. They have a Coruscant vibe, an endless urbanity. |
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And it's actually the prewar coops that have all the chintz and glitz. The Dakota/CPW is Hollywood East, not old money. Finally, I seriously doubt suburbanites are laughing at Jeff Bezos, Leonard Lauder, Ken Griffin, Sting, Denzel Washington and random folks who can afford $240 million apartments, in buildings that don't even allow financing. |
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----- It has been quite some time since L.A. / S.F. / S.D. have been hit by a sizable quake. 1994 was the last somewhat major quake and that wasn't even near the potential. |
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