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Originally Posted by DZH22
Terrible design for something that will be topping off the skyline.
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Originally Posted by sbarn
Not a fan of this design. What are the chances of a redesign?
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There's a good chance the design is refined as this moves forward, but I'm not outraged by it like some others appear to be. A flat top? It will be no more outrageous than Central Park Tower (it's twin in height), 432 Park, or even the Chase Tower, which will be a more massive building. None of these towers will bring us the great spire the city deserves, but once you move past that, It's another tower that aims to take advantage of the ever growing and record breaking number of tourists that flood the city streets each year.
It will be a very public building, with features that make it more inviting to the public than some of the other towers going up anywhere. It won't be a "billionaire's tower" like so many of the critics of the new towers like to claim.
I can see the biggest issue for NIMBYs as being the location, above St Patrick's. But even if you cut the height by a third, you'd still have a 1,000 ft tower rising above, not really much of a difference from the street.
The difference would be on the skyline. And after the initial massing we saw, I was prepared for the worst, but pleasantly surprised by this. Is it a "great" design? I don't think it's great, it's just a more straight up version of 30 Hudson. Is it going to ruin the skyline? Hell no. If CPT and 432 Park haven't done it, if Chase's massive tower won't do it, I see no reason why this will. It's not necessarily what I want, but neither are the others.
These towers are like toys for me, and Christmas keeps on coming. Even just a year ago, we had no reason to expect this, but here we are headed for ULURP where things will get interesting.