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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown
I don't mind the balconies. I actually prefer them to a bland glass wall. They give it the all-important sense of human scale, which a single-colored glass wall simply doesn't do. I also like the stepbacks with the pools/hot tubs, and of course the CVC angled side. Everything else about this building is pretty boring.
And I'm sorry, but the Independent is not unique. There are a bunch of existing stacked-boxes buildings around the world. In fact, the Independent is nearly indistinguishable from the one in Jersey City (of which there will be three when all are built):
https://skyrisecities.com/news/2017/...unches-leasing |
Come on now. We're really going to compare the Independent to the Urby? The Independent is a much more interesting building with box sections that are tall enough to give the impression of a slender tower reaching skyward, while the Urby had all the thought of proportion put into it that went into it's super dumb name and somehow despite being 700 feet loots squatty and is hocking out low-rent apartments to 20-something junior analysts.
Urby has too boxy of proportions and is trying very hard to look like a low-rent "chaos" that 56 Leonard pulls off so well.
And while stacked boxes may not be a completely unique building design, it's something beyond the normal value engineering that you get in most high-rises outside of NYC in 2018.