[Duck From NY]

Originally Posted by MarshallKnight

Now, I love a lot of these buildings and spaces individually (initially skeptical of the "Corset" building, but it has really grown on my), but looking at some of these renders of the base of the towers and the plaza... am I the only person who feels like there are just way too many conflicting geometries going on in this one space? The skeletal bulbousness of the culture shed, the sleek curves of the Corset, the many, many different hard angles and monolithic faces of the South Tower... it doesn't make for a particularly cohesive experience.

These guys clearly have very good ideas about the flow of foot traffic, the relationships between the inside and out, the street level and those above. It's going to be a marvelous place to be. But when I look at some of these renders, from a purely aesthetic point of view, I find my head hurting.

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I've said before that I think the plaza level + the first 100 vertical feet of the complex is a little much, a little noisy. Still, I'll take it. The bubble-blanket thing on the shed makes me smile for some reason, and the Corset building is just plain beautiful.