[artspook]

not all that transformative, . .
but it's great to have another fine shaped building on the NYC waterfront . .
I just noticed, for the 1st time, the rather prominent surface color-variation . .
The glass, and horizontal concrete-edges demarcating the floors,
are darker in contiguous sections, . . so as to compose a very graphic, curvy band . .
wigglng up the 2 wider sides of the building . . It's a relatively inexpensive way . .
to add complexity and whimsy to the architecture . . Though it's a smidgeon tacky . .

I think it would have been nicer architecturally, . . to see glass wrapping
the sumptuous tight curves . . of the East & West sides of the building . .
with balconies indented into the floors close to, but not monopolizing . .
the more extreme curves of the building's volume . .
As it is, the most dramatic curves in the glass curtain wall, don't happen . .
therefore the most distinctive exterior wall, for interior rooms, doesn't happen either . .
In other words, the place where the glass walls of the ellipse shape,
should be most convex, and bulge out . . actually become concave,
& they cave inward instead . .
The best thing architecturally about The Ellipse . .
is that it's geometry is elliptically-shaped . . Yet it doesn't even read that way
from many angles . . Its East end looks pretty flat from the esplanade in Manhattan . .
But developers saved money this way . . and tenants will enjoy the balconies . .
perhaps even more with them facing more directly East . .
They'll certainly enjoy great river views . .