800 Granville Street | 137.5m | 42, 38 fl | Proposed

[seamusmcduff]

-ION- interesting facade treatment, plenty of massing variation, podium mall portion seems to be no more than 6 floors with the tower portion significantly set back, not really similar to whats proposed.

Hudson yards-Bland super talls in a office park like layout. Street interaction along the portion I'm assuming your talking about that completely kills any possibility of street life. Is this really what we want to do to a heritage district that is one of the few places for nightlife in the city? The tower heights aren't an issue, they're still set back enough, but the podium creating a giant wall might create possibly the least interesting street in manhattan.

Just gonna stop there, but I think you get my point. Again to be clear, I don't care about the scale or size of the building, that's not my issue. My issue is that the massing, form, and architecture are terrible and are only a detriment to the feel of the street and the surrounding areas. Honestly having two or three much taller towers that are properly set back would be so much better. In those situations the towers are not the focus, and usually let the heritage portion do that talking. If you want to create a block long wall along this street that's just as prominent as the heritage portion, you can't have subpar architecture, you need to have it be as architecturally interesting and appealing as the forms it is now competing with, which this is not.