Cool- thanks!

^ There was a debate about that rehab here on the forum a few years ago.

Here's a later thread.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=184859




Dellawati Wijaya

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This building has a lot more bulk than a thought it would. Which is a good thing.

It'll probably still look very thin from West-East-West.

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I was gonna say...but I'll say it anywho...

Yeah, this is gonna be MAM...MOTH.

Still one big setback to go before it's just the main shaft.


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The western wing (shown on the left) will fall off.



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Got it- Thanks! That does suck- I thought it was some new building with a novel glass over concrete design, not a historic building covered with glass...

By my calculation they should be at the big setback now or just one floor below it. (18 floors above the cantilever is the transition, which I believe is where we are at)

You don’t have to be very tall to still be massive and imposing; the Equitable Building in Lower Manhattan, for instance, is dwarfed in height by quite a few buildings now but still overpowers pretty much everything in the area in shear size and scale. So imposing it led the city enforce the “set back” codes of later buildings to allow more natural light. As for the Sears, only the original WTC really came close to the massive scale and presence in NY.

The Sears Tower does not dwarf the central park tower because the central park tower is taller.....

^ That's all irrelevant. The two towers will never stand together. The Sears Tower is a massive building, on the scale of the original WTC towers, which had their bulk all the way from the bottom up to the top. But it's days of tallest are behind it, just as it is for the Empire State. The Central Park Tower will be the tallest building to roof we've ever had in the US or anywhere else on this side of the world. Let's watch it rise with that in mind.

Hopefully we will get a look at what's behind the protective covering before too long. The building's massing may be awkward, but I've always though the facade would look nice. I hope I am right.



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One's awkwardness, WADR, is another's ::oh, boy...:: "awe"kwardness.

That cantilever IMO will go such a long way towards emphasizing the sheer immensity of this tower at street level when all's said and done. TBH, I've never seen the technique done on this scale.

In the middle of the forest...


Stephen Mildenhall


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Great shot^^...what is the building U/C in the foreground? That is a wild facade.

It's a new research tower for a medical center. Another huge research tower will go up right behind.

The silvery glass on the renderings is my favorite feature of this tower together with the vertical detailing on the facade . They both lend a futuristic industrial appeal and the contrast between that and the heavier (stone/brick) surroundings will be sublime.

I don't know how soon they will be able to reveal it, but I'm looking forward to see the quality.

September 29th, 2017

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This tower has disappointed me already in so many ways.

Except for the height it's pretty average... another blue glass building. The height is very exciting though!

Could it be that we are judging it before it's even close to being finished? I think we should wait a tad more. If we recall, the same as said about 432 Park while it was still u/c, and now, it really enhances the skyline and came out great. Time will dictate if this development stands the test of aesthetics. Its merely more than the physical design, but how it works, blends, enhances its proxies IMO. Physical design is merely a factor in the overall equation.