Reply With QuoteYup, dated indeed. All those BPC towers were built in the last 10 years yet they look like pimped out projects. What a missed opportunity.
These photos, especially without the former WTC Towers, make this part of the skyline look decidedly dated. This area will be enlived with a few supertalls coming down the pipeline, and I for one will standup and cheer these anticipated intrusions.
Yup, dated indeed. All those BPC towers were built in the last 10 years yet they look like pimped out projects. What a missed opportunity.
I love New York.
Great pics Darryl, postcard worthy.
thanks!
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A terrific image of Downtown from Governor's Island by Andrew Mace at Flickr, a composition of 19 different photos ...
andrew mace Flickr
Super Large Size (4,000 x 2,000)
It is THE greatest concentration of skyscrapers with a volume this large.
The downtown Manhattan skyline as imagined in 1931 by Polhemus & Coffin ...
Polhemus & Coffin AIA 1919-1954 at Flickr
http://www.polhemusandcoffin.com/
Small French Buildings by Polhemus & Coffin on Facebook
Color skyline shots from the 50's. Even with all the crap that was built after this time period, I'm glad the city was never museumized. Still a lot to be missed.
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Two of Midtown:
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From the 60's.
http://viewlinerltd.blogspot.com/201...-new-york.html
Lower Manhattan Skyline From the Air - This historic area where half a million people work includes City Hall, the Battery, Federal Hall, Trinity Church, the new 60-story Chase Manhattan Bank Building and Wall Street, the financial capital of the world.
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Wow. Pretty
Except there's that big slab that got plopped in the middle of all the poetry.
Destroying the Singer building in the process...
One Chase always seemed like a better fit in Midtown. Singer might be condos now if it was still around.
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