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Originally Posted by chris08876
Another roadblock in the stuck up, grotesque looking female and old men NIMBY's attempts to halt progress. 
The tower itself isn't really worth landmarking. The Plaza or Waldorf of course, but not this... |
LOL, you guys are harsh. Of course it isn't worth landmarking, the effort was put forth to block the tower, and the gullible people at that meeting are there mainly for that reason. It's not that they actually think it's something worth preserving, they don't want anything new built. They never do. They'd landmark a garbage can it they thought it would stop development. It's a shame that's what the landmarking process has come down to. But those interested in preserving
true landmarks need to hijack the process back, it's become a joke.
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Originally Posted by mistermetAJ
The Park Lane in no way deserves landmark status. However, the location certainly warrants a design review and contextual requirements. That massing model almost killed me. There should be much more stone than glass on whatever is built there. I get NY isnt a museum (everyone says that to defend every crappy design) but some places deserve more attention and better architecture than others. This location deserves the best, not the typical mediocre glass box.
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Well, for one thing, everyone says that
because it's true. As far as "crappy design", you people who claim to be for preserving "landmarks" always throw in hypocritical comments about design. What that means is you would throw the "landmark" in the garbage with everything else if the design replacing it was something you thought worth while. That puts you in the boat with everyone else, who're you kidding.