Reply With QuoteI got a note from building management the other day stating that construction is starting ASAP - pile driving, etc. I will get some pictures of the construction site later in the week.
I think there is some life springing up on this site. There is a new drill rig on site as of yesterday. Who knows if that is significant....
I got a note from building management the other day stating that construction is starting ASAP - pile driving, etc. I will get some pictures of the construction site later in the week.
great news!!!!! This one is going to be fun to watch!
I disagree with the building's review, but lol. What a great way to summarize Corbusian ways of thinking, things like the "machine for living", etc.Originally Posted by Stroika
Good NEWS....
By The Next List staff, CNN
(CNN) - This week on "The Next List" we're featuring a rising star in the world of architecture – Bjarke Ingels. *His bold, innovative ideas are pushing the boundaries of design around the globe – from his native Denmark to Asia and now the Manhattan skyline and beyond.
For Ingels,*architecture is the marriage of a fantastic, utopian vision with a detailed approach to design.He's not just dreaming up pie-in-the-sky projects. He's building them.
To Ingels, though, what's most important is to work from the heart. Architecture is not about building monuments but contributing to society and creating possibilities for human life, he says.
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IMO, Ingels, like Zaha Hadid, represents little more than the abandonment of architecture by the media and architectural establishment and its replacement with the pointlessly shocking, the absurd, and the imposition of trendy celebrity culture onto the built environment.
Mercedes House is overbearing and hulking, yet it will be NOTHING in comparison to this monstrosity... height is great, so is new development--but DESIGN is most important. This looks like something a child could have drawn, and will function as such in terms of its interaction with the city...
The streets adjacent to Mercedes House (particularly the northern side) are killed by the sheer walls present, and this is going to be much MUCH worse....
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I don't agree with most of that from the renderings I've seen, except maybe the shear wall along W58th St; but although I like the IRT powerhouse, it doesn't offer much opportunity for streetlife. I'd put building services - deliveries, garage entrances, garbage collection - there.
The building walls slope back on 12th Ave and W57th St, keeping open the view corridor to the river. Instead of butting up against the Helena, there's pedestrian space on the eastern side.
Although it's tall, it appears low-rise along the waterfront.
I love this tower.
I'd like to see the western addition of the adjacent building come down. It looks like crap.
While I have a healthy disdain for Vent ho...er - Mercedes House, I actually kinda like this building and
believe it to work well/play nice within it's surroundings.
A definite plus for the area - how refreshing.
I'm positive on this one as well. It'll probably be landmarked in about 30 years and WNY'ers (probably not even born yet) at that time will be heaping praise on it and thankful this was built.
This is BIG......here is the Video - again!
http://vimeo.com/19661303
A fantastic building. I am extremely glad it is going ahead.
The waterfront view (in the rendering above) is pretty spectacular. It's another sailboat.... Gehry's is moored at 18th street.
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