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It looks like a common condensation phenomenon. Notice how the air is full of water vapor (humidity)? As the air flow meets the skyscraper, it's forced to rise up. The pressure drop results in...

Hopefully we'll see more architectural concrete + casement window buildings in the future. It provides the sense of solidity and authenticity of materials that people look for, without the...

Anybody else see this rendering of Tamarkin's 508 West 24th Street in the Times:

http://i.imgur.com/asrGNAt.jpg

"14 of the 15 units will be three-bedrooms. “These are all family-sized ...

Let's hope they tamp down, or tamp on, with the flow issues. It looks sloppy. Monumentally sloppy.

Never got a good sense of the scale of these windows until this photo:

http://i.imgur.com/HRrpD6V.jpg?1

If 100 Church would get a limestone re-cladding a la Barney's on Madison, this area would really shape up.

It looks like they're gearing up for action here:

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/05/15/the_world_is_finally_ready_for_larry_silversteins_30_park_place.php

Getting piss on a wooden floor is one thing, but showering on a wooden floor?

http://i.imgur.com/EeEE793.jpg

From the teaser pic of Cary Tamarkin's 508 w. 24th, it looks like another white concrete luxury apartment might be going up soon in NY:

http://i.imgur.com/4XYY24W.jpg

They can market this type of concrete. Call it travestine.

The color reminds me of the remaining bauhaus bit of Omotesando Hills:

http://i.imgur.com/5WGixCP.jpg?2

From above, the construction site looks like vesica piscis (New World Order/Inside Job/Infowars/etc.).

Does every stupid thing have to be a "movement?" As if architects have to be sans-culottes storming Bastilles or setting up barricades, and if a building doesn't look like an alien dildo it's...

They say it's topping out in the fall. The white steel will be visible. Where the white steel ends will be a glass curtain wall. This and Piano's Whitney on the high line should make interesting...

Not only did Cooper Union have an edifice complex, but they invested on borrowed money? Looks like the collateral was their academic mission.

Hilarious. Maybe we can interpret it as a symbolic trophy, not unlike when the Romans brought back obelisks from Egypt.

This is what happens when you don't "tell people what they can and cannot do:"
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/04/18/west_texas_fertilizer_plant_blast_map.jpg

Feel free to move to Texas.

We should savor the view before it gets Foster-ized. Bye bye elegance.

At least it's a repurposed industrial building, in the service of selling luxury apartments, and not the actual luxury apartments themselves! I expect the facade of 432 to age nearly as well as that...

Good eye! That's definitely more than a coincidence. Here's another example of raw concrete meeting a factory style window, the sales office of the future conversion of The Schumaker on Bleecker:
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Black frames on white look astonishing on this Zaha Hadid in Baku:

http://i.imgur.com/FASSbn8.jpg?1

Yes, I'm beating a dead horse, but enjoy the picture.

That long, dark, and curvy corridor to the elevators is reminiscent of something to soothe cattle as they make their way to the abattoir.

Hopefully they scrap the design for Tower 2.

http://i.imgur.com/AmDpTGm.jpg?1

Close enough.

It's surprising how well this one turned out, especially compared to the trashy/glassy early designs. The half balconies look a lot less obnoxious than full balconies. The casement windows look...

Grid windows are at the bedrock of modern architecture:
http://i.imgur.com/QXatKwi.jpg

I suppose it would show too much self-awareness and too much of a deference to the art moderne for a...