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Originally Posted by eXodius
This is EXACTLY why I enjoy this forum and people like you who keep the rest of us apprised of the latest happenings in NY! As a former native New Yorker who grew up a little bit in the Bronx, I miss seeing the NY skyline on the regular! Since my last visit a few years ago, NY has changed a LOT! When I was last there, Hudson Yards was barely getting traction! Now it's some futuristic mini-city and it's just Phase 1!
I really appreciate you and others for posting stuff even if it's something you don't necessarily enjoy. In 10 years' time when the next wave of supertalls like Tower Fifth, 350 Park, 270 Park, and others ideally get built up, the skyline will not only even out but we'll begin to appreciate what these "simple towers" do to the skyline just as the former Twins did. They were simplistic but something a LOT of people in this forum still think fondly of. We haven't even seen CPT lit up at night in person! Coupled with 111 W 57th and One Vanderbilt, gonna be VERY hard to argue that the skyline isn't better from their presence, even if much of it won't ever be seen up close by the common Joe.
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Thank you sir, and I’m not even someone who’s hard to please, designwise. There’s so much going on, the skyline is changing at a very fast pace. But there aren’t many places where you can put up a 1,500 ft skyscraper, and most people still don’t know anything about it. Part of it has to do with so many skyscrapers coming so fast (and they’re all relatively new). But it’s also in part because of design. The further away from the skyline, where you can get an accurate view of scale, this building appears almost shockingly tall, but not necessarily in a good way. It’s as if you took an ordinary 500 ft box filler, and stretched it up to 1,500 ft. Buildings of that height just need more, particularly if they are going to be the tallest, as this is in Midtown’s skyline.
But we still get to watch towers like Steinway, 53w53, and 9 Dekalb go up. And we get to look forward to 270 and 350 Park and have expectations for a Grand Hyatt tower. This one will be completed, and we’ll still be watching the skyline change.