Heh, love that risque painting/sculpture
The NY Times architecture critic today, in a long piece, really slammed Hudson Yards, on financial, architectural and aesthetic grounds. He particularly hates the Vessel: “stairway to nowhere …” “preens” … “casts egregious shadows…” “…ruinously manspreading…” etc. On the whole, the project is “socialism for billionaires,” he writes, and is “nearly devoid or urban design.” He scoffs at buildings that look like “glass shards on top of a wall” and “shiny envelopes” without any “semblance of human scale.” For me, the “glass shards” and angularity of a couple of the buildings are the best part. It reminds me very much, in spirit, of Libeskind’s original conception of the World Trade Center site, all lost with the abandonment of the off-center spire at One World Trade and the decision to drop Foster’s slanting diamond roof for Two World Trade. In the end we’ll get four boring flat-topped buildings, even assuming 2 World Trade is ever built. He concludes with one of the cheapest and oldest shots in the architecture critics’ book — reveling in the view from the observation deck, and then cracking that from it, he doesn’t have to see Hudson Yards. Of course, people said the same thing about the Eiffel Tower observation deck. |
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One obvious objection is that it’s a bit early to make this objection. Even he writes “we’ll see” about the projected rise in GDP. After all, the thing just opened! I do particularly like the view of 30 from Chelsea. It’s so much more interesting than those super-tall skinnies springing up, which I personally loathe. On the Lower East Side there is a clear view up one of the avenues of distant Chrysler, dominating, as it should, that sector of the skyline. Now that beautiful view has been blighted by a super-tall skinny dwarfing Chrysler. :yuck: |
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Looks like a lot of the landscaping between this and 30 Hudson is still underway (re: not complete yet). Once that goes in, this will be much more inviting.
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https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7840/...e9d6bcd9_k.jpg Hudson Yards 03-29-19 - 3 by Christopher Estevez, on Flickr |
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