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New York is just killing itself, destroying all of the pre-war buildings that give the city charm, attractiveness, and liveability and replacing them with value-engineered, pre-fab cardboard...

Have you been by there in person? It looks like the architectural equivalent of a Dr. Frankenstein surgery gone horribly awry, with a schizophrenic streetwall, heights and especially architecture....

Two thumbs up. I like it - much better than the hideous modernist/post-war Milliken Building that used to be there.

Prediction: They'll landmark a handful - say, 6 buildings total, of which 3 will be hideous post-war modernist towers. Just because.

The vast majority of beautiful old pre-war masonry offices in...

Refers to (1) the intolerance toward others' viewpoints, and (2) desire to control the range of potential decisions of others via state action, that characterize the contemporary American Left /...

The "Porsche Design Tower" (residential with individual car-elevators for each apt.) is going up in Miami now.

Hi, writing from "downtown" Moscow. Would be curious to hear what those non-sidewalk pedestrian routes are here. :rolleyes:

Overall, I am a bit confused about this debate. New York is very dense...

UGHGHGHGHGGHGHGH!!!! There are loads of PRE-WAR buildings of incalculable value in the area Bloomie wants to bulldoze ... and these twits get to work landmarking the very post-war crap that should...

Nope. On balance, Boston architecture going up today is better than NYC. Boston may not have smth like "New York by Gehry," but that is an outlier for NY. Most NY construction is cheap, hideous Gene...

I'm surprised they would be so stubborn to push forward with this. Unless they have a really strong + compelling reason (they own the land, the land is super space-constrained, so building 8 floors...

Nope - the area you have in mind (the South Boston Seaport - not South Boston itself) is relatively new infill/reclaimed land and was never really developed. It was part of the working waterfront,...

Barf. The next mayor needs to worry much, much less about sodas and cigarettes - and much more about historical preservation. This is just perverse.

Does this mean the Meier designs won't be used at all? Or is it just on this small plot away from the main one?

... Not thrilled re. SHOP as well. I suppose anything that isn't a Kaufman Special...

Mega-barf. There goes my breakfast.

This crap is criminal. NY needs a stop-and-frisk program for its low-rent developers.

City Hall could *very easily* change the situation. Have a blanket landmarking - or at least relatively higher standards before razing - for all pre-WWII buildings. Between post-war buildings,...

Eek. More trash.

Oh, more pre-fab and alucobond, and breaking the streetwall once you go above the one-story pedestal. Barf.

Isn't there some other city these people can defile? Like Baghdad?

Awful. Can we team up to buy and raze this POS?

Nice. The mullions make this project.

Kaufman must be neutered. ASAP.

Barf.

Too wide and I don't like that streetwall-breaking fence on the ground floor. But overall not bad.

Boston is of course not building as tall as New York, both because of less overall demand in a smaller market but also because of restrictive zoning used by politicians to extract "goodies" from...

^^ Criminal, nothing less.

We need to bring back the stocks / pillory for punishing and publicly displaying the gangsters responsible for this terrorism of the city. Or perhaps the tradition at...