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Old Posted Oct 2, 2012, 2:08 AM
JayPro JayPro is offline
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I have a strong feeling that Mr. Gehry is starting to push his luck with skyscraper aesthetics. The only reason he pulled off what he did in Downtown NYC is that he was constrained by the locals to tone down what he originally had in mind.
It surely seems to me with this design that the Big Apple's Torontonian counterparts are quite willing breathe a good deal less heavily down his proverbial neck.
For these reasons I fear that the optimism that could be on display here will be soon regretted. Gehry run amok is not a good thing, I'm afraid. What I perceive to be the aggresively deconstructuralist tendencies of architects like him and Rem Koolhaas IMO warrant *very* close observation, *especially* with structures in this height range.
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