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Originally Posted by artspook
I love big new development - steel - concrete . .
But let's tell it like it is aficionados ! . .
patriotizzy - yes "disappointing" . . but - "all its curves" ? ? . .
Hardly . . They're cheap very meager curves . . a wishy-washy minuscule effort . .
the big Elizabeth Diller bombastic "Corset" rollout . . Gone !
It wasn't my favorite lavish proposal . . but it was complex . . it was ambitious.
15 HY design now has wimped out . . It's a vision of fainthearted timidity . . .
Same for most of the other washed out HY proposals . .
also the marshmallowy glass box placeholder designs of the Manhattan West towers . .
But for the solid KPF vision of the 10 & 30 HY towers complex at the center . .
HY's halfhearted overall aesthetic is monstrously irresolute mediocre expediency . .
millions & millions of square feet of it.
I can't wait to see this bodacious centerpiece they're talkin' about . .
promised to be more amazing than Paris's Eiffel Tower ! . .
Imagine it ! . . seriously . . But who cares ! - Right ? . .
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Couldn't have said it better myself. I was looking forward to a lot of these towers, but they've been value engineered into mediocrity. Disappointing for such an ambitious project.
Goes to show that these foreign beauties they're building elsewhere are meant to be statements of power and vanity.That's just not how we do it in the States I guess...