| NYguy |
Nov 20, 2019 5:53 PM |
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Originally Posted by Maldive
(Post 8753926)
The pencil tower phenomenon in NYC is both shocking from a skyline pov, and yet disconcerting. I always see NYC as a city with height.. and girth. Solid.
Glad ESB can be seen from some angles.
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The ESB itself is very slender, depending on your angle of view. And the skyline itself is less of a skyline, and more of a "skymass" as it's lined with big and bulky 700 and 800 footers that dulled the classic skyline. And we will see more of that still, as towers like the Spiral, 3 Hudson, 50 Hudson, Chase, Tower Fifth, even the buildout of the WTC raises the base skyline even higher. But those classic skylines were defined by the slender skyscrapers that pushed upward in the city's ambition, where one tallest was replaced by the next. And that's how it should be. It's a city of densely packed skyscrapers, where even a 1,000 ft building can fade into the background. We don't really need overly bulky towers. Too much of that is the reason we need these towers pushing up. Central Park Tower could really have used tgat spire to distinguish it further, but it does stand above the base skyline. |
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