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Brooklyn's Shifting Center http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/i...0212225103.jpg http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/i...0212175358.jpg By JOSEPH DE AVILA Feb 13, 2012 Quote:
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Wow that actually looks great, Great news for Bklyn. I hope this starts a trend for high rise architecture downtown.
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I think it's quite a unique proposal, if somewhat ungainly... the crown does a lot to mitigate another MiMA-like bore.
Any integrity the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building had is now gone, btw... gorgeous in its own right but imminently overshadowed by at least three new residential towers. Any argument for height limits for the neighborhood should be moot. |
I like it, but sadly, there's a nice old building on the site that will be razed for this.
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Plus Brooklyn gets a skyscraper. :) |
Great news.
I'm sure many would disagree with me, but I think that the Barclay's Arena is going to have a tremendous positive impact on the immediate area. This is just an example... |
Render looks decent. I agree that it resembles the first renders of Mima. So it looks like the three tallest buildings in Brooklyn will soon be all U/C, if all goes well.
Only a matter of time before Brooklyn gets a real standout, skyline centerpiece type of tower. Great news! |
This is a nice tower. I like how the roof steps downward and culiminates in a crown. I like how the sides progessively bulge out.
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Great news for the ever-growing Brooklyn - the design looks interesting.
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Ohhhh... Great news for Brooklyn. I hope soon to have more projects for this area of the city.
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Hopefully this will pass 600 ft.
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Don't forget the CityPoint development as well as the Metro Tech Tower... I think it is quite likely Brooklyn sees something in the 1000ft range before 2020 and I also think it's likely that such a building will be residential or mixed-use, definitely not strictly office. |
Mmmm Brooklyn with a supertall, such a wonderful thought, these 600 footers being planed are a start though.
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Off topic, but Brooklyn did have a super-tall proposal a few years back. The City Tech Tower. Originally it was planned to have reached 1,200 feet, but then it was cut down to 1,000 feet to save cost, and then it was canceled altogether thanks to NIMBY's. The NIMBY's complained about this building taking the crown from the Williamsburg Savings Bank, and other NIMBY's complained about the future noise from construction and dust. It killed the tower.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Tech_Tower.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=187707 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Tech_Tower |
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Also, there was no redesign of the tower. There was a single proposal, which never advanced beyond the conceptual stage. And a tower is still planned, at some later date. Will likely be a different design, though. |
That's really sad about that building, but Brooklyn is booming and we should see another proposal eventually.
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http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories..._02_17_bk.html
High-end high-rise planned on Flatbush http://www.brooklynpaper.com/assets/..._17_bk01_z.jpg By Kate Briquelet Feb 14, 2012 Quote:
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Still waiting for a 700 footer but we're slowly getting there...
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