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Originally Posted by JayPro
It appears that the Childs Tower #4 is *hella* slender from that angle.
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Yes, we knew from looking at the model that the building would be oriented
inwards or towards the office towers. But in today's article, it mentions that the tower could possibly be rotated 90 degrees.
http://nymag.com/homedesign/urbanliv.../hudson-yards/
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The people in the conference room can visualize that future in high-resolution detail. On the screen, digital couples stroll among trees pruned to cubical perfection. A chain of glowing towers garlands the skyline, and tiny figures stroll onto a deck hanging nearly a quarter-mile in the air. Architects discuss access points, sidewalk widths, ceiling heights, flower beds, and the qualities of crushed-stone pathways. You could almost forget that none of this exists yet—until one architect points to a lozenge-shaped skyscraper and casually, with a twist of his wrist, remarks that he’s thinking of swiveling it 90 degrees.
The Related Companies, the main developer of the site, has called this meeting so that the designers of the various buildings can finally talk to each other, instead of just to the client. I’m getting the first look at the details at the same time some of the participants are. Suddenly, after years of desultory negotiations and leisurely design, the project has acquired urgency: Ground-breaking on the first tower will take place in the coming weeks. There’s a high-octane crew in the room: William Pedersen, co-founder of the high-rise titans Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; David Childs, partner at the juggernaut Skidmore Owings and Merrill; Elizabeth Diller, front woman for the cerebral boutique Diller Scofidio + Renfro; David Rockwell, a virtuoso of showbiz and restaurant design; Howard Elkus, from the high-end shopping-center specialists Elkus Manfredi; and landscape architect Thomas Woltz, the only member of the group new to New York real-estate politics. Their task is to compose a neighborhood from scratch.
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I'm getting a very "World Trade Center-like" feel to the complex.
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One question though: Are nos. 2 and 4 due for the same kind of facade treatment as far as glass hue is concerned?
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For a better idea of what Childs may be planning, check here...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199033