In my view, the lower Manhattan skyline of the late 1920s-early 1950s was the most attractive skyline in the history of skylines. Many have lamented how the skyline of elegant thin towers (featuring setbacks) of Lower Manhattan was overwhelmed (and for me, ruined) by the boring/ugly big boxy skyscrapers of the 1960s and 1970s.
Today there is another proliferation that is dramatically altering the skyline: this time, Midtown Manhattan, with many bemoaning how the pencil towers have ruined the aesthetics of that skyline. Individually, these pencil towers are quite interesting, but I have not decided whether they are augmenting or detracting from the Midtown skyline.
what do you guys think?
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