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Originally Posted by Robin~
I am often reminded that many people on this forum are only interested in the pure height of buildings, in much the same way some people are obsessed with train numbers or flawed coinage. There seems to be a complete cognitive disconnect from the city that said buildings are meant to be a part of.
Buildings are cool - but cities are cooler, and what makes them even cooler still is when there's cohesion and thought put into how neighborhoods look and operate at a human level.
But like I said, most people are only here because Tall Building Good Always.
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This building has been designed in a vacuum with apparantly zero concern for how it interfaces with the street and with its neighbors. Like many setback towers, it contributes to the degradation of the urban room at street level by ignoring the streetwall. My concern isn't with the height of course, nor with the lack of an affordability component the nimby activists are screaming about. It's the absolutely atrocious site planning and center-of-lot massing that is the natural outcome of working with the city's zoning code of 1961, which was written to have useless plazas and other stupid "open spaces" in front of every new tall building., because traditional built form and urbanism was bad back then. The "sky-plane" formula may have had good intentions, but it's been mostly detrimental to cohesive urban design, and frankly common sense.
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