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Originally Posted by NYguy
I don’t think your blind, though you act as if you can’t see. Also, I don’t know why you find it SHOCKIN that modern office construction, and even residential would use glass.
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Originally Posted by MAC123
The buildings all having glass doesn't mean there's no variety. That's not how it works.
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All glass HY makes the complex look like a monolith, irrespective of distinct massings. The original point is that I take what Related says with a grain of salt... Not what building materials should be.
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Originally Posted by TREPYE
I remember very well this selling point because I was looking forward to see what they came up with, and being very disappointed with what they ended up putting up:
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/...ards-discussed
For Kohn Pedersen Fox, Arquitectonica, Robert A.M. Stern, and West 8, which collaborated on the proposal from the Related Companies and Goldman Sachs, the project is all about variety. “What we’re really talking about is trying to make a neighborhood for people to live and work in,” Stern said. “A New York neighborhood which is diverse in its functions, diverse in its architecture, diverse in its typologies, and one that can grow incrementally and change over time as the project goes forward, even after completion.” Hoping to reflect existing Manhattan city blocks more than a singular, super-sized development, the proposal calls for buildings of varying heights, styles, and materials, from bricks and mortar to glass.
"Variety".... not quite. |
They (Related) fronted variety and what ensued was a monolith in material (glass) which dampens their credibility.
Actually, NYGuy, I am more shocked that considering you expertise and after seeing 175 Park Ave, 520 Fifth Avenue, 9 Dekalb, 111 W 57th St you seem to think that modern construction only revolves around slapping glass facades onto every square inch of a tower (as was pretty much done in HY). I know you think, but it doesn't seem like you thought the knee-jerk response through (or what my original point was).