NEW YORK | New York Times Tower (Gehry) | 45 FLOORS | NEVER BUILT - Page 2

sbarn · #21 Posted **Jul 4, 2009, 3:48 PM**

Call me crazy, but I prefer Renzo's tower - its much more New York.

Zerton · #22 Posted **Jul 4, 2009, 5:31 PM**

^ I agree, but I do think the giant "NY" would look awesome.

metroXpress · #23 Posted **Jul 24, 2009, 11:49 PM**

I think it's very unique~

Lecom · #24 Posted **Aug 21, 2009, 3:31 PM**

I actually think Renzo Piano's external screens, with paper-like thinness, smooth but palpable graininess when viewed from a distance, and neat, newspaper column-like rows of windows are a better ecletic representation of a newspaper than anything Gehry could ever produce.

kickser · #25 Posted **Apr 29, 2010, 10:13 PM**

with 45 floors and an average floor height of 4m it would be 180m tall and would'nt made a big impact on the skyline. I prefer the tower that is beeing built, because it allows fancier towers to go up around it. If they had build this one, fancier towers around it, like 11 times square, westin hotel and propably other upcoming towers would not compliment each other, rather clashing. So i consider a decent NYT tower surrounded by fancier towers as the better solution.

IMBY · #26 Posted **Dec 19, 2012, 10:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by Pinion

I don't know any famous architects except Gehry and I only remember him because his stuff is so awful and it all looks the same (melted metal bs). He even managed to ruin a hockey trophy.

I've tried ever so hard to appreciate this man's designs, and I fail to do it repeatedly. Las Vegas got one, the Ruvo Brain Institute, and thank God above and past Pluto, it's only 5 stories!

If only, if only, if only he'd use more color other than grey, grey, grey! I was recently in Chicago to see his creation in Millenium Park, grey, grey, grey!