NYC could do with another 1000 buildings like that.
Hopefully Robert AM Stern will design at least one 1000+ footer, maybe if the Metlife North Tower ever resumes construction (it remains unfinished), that'd be a perfect candidate and potentially his Magna Opus. SL Green recently bought the building so who knows what they plan to do with it.
This is a building that would enhance any city . . .
or any borough . . and just about any neighborhood . .
It's good that Woolworth now has such a worthy neighbor . .
and that acres of Trade Center glass . . got a foil . .
The overall design is really top-notch. I didn't like the Four Seasons decorative motif on the base and between the windows, it looked too futuristic for a traditional building. But looking at the tower as a whole, it somehow manages to be very modern while looking very old. It's not a boring copy of the past or a cheap knockoff skinned to look like a pre-war building, but a building that completely belongs in our time, maybe even a little beyond our time (or a galaxy far far away).
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In my city of Toronto actually ill show you a similar idea to this one that I like for the same reason, it's not nearly as tall of course (110 meters) but the idea is the same
what do you think this one? I like that it's white and that they made use of the artistic setbacks with the balconeys like most new York cities classic architechure
The overall design is really top-notch. I didn't like the Four Seasons decorative motif on the base and between the windows, it looked too futuristic for a traditional building. But looking at the tower as a whole, it somehow manages to be very modern while looking very old. It's not a boring copy of the past or a cheap knockoff skinned to look like a pre-war building, but a building that completely belongs in our time, maybe even a little beyond our time (or a galaxy far far away).
The decorative motif between the windows struck me of arc deco designs seen on other buildings. I quite like it, and I feel the same as you about the building's design as a whole.
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