Reply With QuoteWow! Setting aside judgement on the building... Derek, you are taking some exceptional photos these days.
If not for the TWC that would be a very dreary picture. The apartment building covering up Hearst could really use demolition.
Wow! Setting aside judgement on the building... Derek, you are taking some exceptional photos these days.
I'll second that. Over the past few days, Derek, you've put up probably the most encompassing and impressive collection of photos I've ever seen on this forum in such a short time span. Makes me wanna get out there and use my camera. Keep it up, man!
Excellent pictures Derek.
I like the Time Warner Center.
Time Warner Center is stubby, but I can't hate Child's for that. I hate the NIMBY's for inflicting a 750 foot ceiling at the site.
It might be stubby from that perspective, but it has quite a presence looking down 59th Street from around 5th/Madison Avenue. I've always liked this development, and I think it fits in beautifully. Plus, it's been a boon to that area.
To reinforce what's already been said about this tower, there's plenty of nice things, and also plenty to complain about. I'll add it's best when seen as a double tower. Without the sky coming through it looks like a wall. Excellent photos Derek - a rare perspective of the "backside".
Excellent shots -- gotta love that early evening NYC light.
What's the vantage point you took them from?
I wish these were mine but they're this guy's. He has a couple other on his page.
loungeflyDE's photostream
August 6, 2006
Amazing pictures. Granted, today was a great day for shooting photos. Glad I had my camera on hand, and too bat I didn't make it to top of 7WTC today. Oh well, tomorrow it is, then.
I just cant get over that flatness up top and the fact that theres is 2 of em the effect is more accentuated and increases my disappointment with the design. The height issue may not be Childs fault but that indistinct blasé flatness I can't forgive Childs for.Originally Posted by Derek2k3
you can see 15 CPW u/c.
Comprehensive webpage with info on the T/W site going back to the 1949 Coliseum Plan:
http://members.fortunecity.com/chyiy...duse_paper.htm#
Columbia University GSAPP
Student Project for Land Use Planning
PLA6108 Fall 2002
10 Columbus Circle
Chyi-Yun Huang (UP1)
ObjectiveThis paper aims to address the issues and development of former New York Coliseum and present American-On-Line-Times Warner (AOL/TW) Center also known as the Columbus Center. The main focus would be on land use planning concerns pertaining to related problems and background factors; specific plans or approaches; steps taken in formulating the plan; role of various “players” and evaluation of the plan or approach. Three main land use plans would be addressed here - the New York Coliseum Plan, an interim unrealized plan proposed by developer Mortimer Zuckerman and the American-On-Line/Times Warner Center plan.
Thanks for the link lofter.
Good read
NY Post
August 22, 2006
GREEN GIANT TAKES SHAPE
By STEVE CUOZZO
...
When Related Cos. honcho Kenneth Himmel launched Time Warner Center's galleria in 2003, some brokers sniffed that New Yorkers wouldn't shop or dine in a mall.
That view now seems quaint. The 350,000 square-foot atrium is thriving. The only weak spot was the third- and fourth-floor restaurants; V Steakhouse closed, Charlie Trotter backed out of a deal, and Bouchon Bakery took a long time to open - leaving the place to pricey Café Gray and ultra-pricey Per Se and Masa.
But Michael Lomonaco's new Porter House (where V was), due by October, and chef/owner Marc Murphy's Landmarc, planned for spring, will change all that. Landmarc especially will liven up the joint with service from morning until the wee hours.
"Landmarc's popular price point will complement Time Warner's existing group of eateries," said Lansco honcho Alan Victor, who represented Landmarc with Lansco's Tom Duke.
Landmarc leased 10,630 square feet. Murphy would not comment on terms, but asking rents on the third floor are $100 to $150 a foot.
Murphy said his new place, a grander version of his popular TriBeCa original, will be open from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. "Even before we got going with the lease, I already had my design team working to see if I could get enough people in there," to justify the long opening hours.
Murphy concluded his moderately priced, 270-seater is just what Time Warner Center and the neighborhood need.
He said he was recently looking through the windows with Related Cos. suits when one of them jokingly apologized for the fact that the new 15 Central Park West condo would block the restaurant's view of the park.
"I said, 'Hey, are you kidding - I'm getting 3,000 more customers,' " Murphy recalled.
Lansco, along with the Auber Group, also negotiated the galleria's first replacement for an existing tenant - fashion retailer Bebe's impending move into 6,764 square feet previously occupied by Joseph Abboud.
Victor said Abboud wanted out of its lease, but, "The only way Related was going to let us off hook was if we came up with an acceptable replacement tenant." Asking rents on the galleria's main floor run as high as $350 a foot.
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