Stone is completely different. A dopey, non-sensical comparison.
Plus that top photo, and many others on the thread, have horribly inaccurate color balance. Look how blue everything is in that photo, including the grey. It has a much less saturated hue in reality than what you're asking us to base a comparison on.
They had to shut down 40th street because glass was falling down from the tower today. FYI
Glass or ice?
It could very well be ice.
Part of the price of living in the big cityOriginally Posted by lbjefferies
I sincerely hope its glass. NYC hasn't experienced much of a freeze this year, if the building has a problem with ice it could be a nightmare. Take the Bloomberg Tower as an example and how its been years and the subway entrance there to my knowledge still hasn't opened.
Bloomberg Tower is using the ice problem as a ruse.
For what it's worth, the copper who stopped me said it was glass. It must have been a decent amount of glass because there were like five fire trucks and at least as many police cars.
I am not comparing materials used I am comparing color. When I read some of you guys comments (with figurative violins playing in the background) about the dreariness of the tower you are usually talking about its color, not the material that its made from. As for the pictures; I used 2 different pics to demonstrate multiple shades the facade produces.
The low rise section along W. 40th with lights on ...
They've re-aligned the pedestrian passageway at the corner of 40th / 8th Avenue so that you now pass under the building --
And they are seriously digging up that corner for the subway entrance ...
That's a new entrance, yes?
is the building %100 leased yet.?
I think there was one here before -- but memory can play tricks.
There's a staircase across 40th on the southside of the street -- and two on either side of 40th on the west side of 8th Ave.
the warmth of stone VS. ceramic and metal
But it does go beyond the material itself. The Times building is a high tech building, Renzo Piano is a high tech architect. The gray tone to me and likely others seems low tech and tired. When I think high tech I think of crisp shiny clean materials. that you can look at the rods from far away and equate or mistake them with traditional stone buildings is a huge problem IMO.Again with this color nonsense??
Why is it that this opaque gray color looks dreary on the times tower but yet it is basically the same color as other towers that people love (such as the flatiron, San remo)?
No
It's the MTA refusing to open. Not the tower owners.
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