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Originally Posted by artspook

Bjarke Ingels has designed 2 spectacular medium-sized tower projects . .
both very sophisticated, for the westside riverfront of Manhattan . .
one is finished, a pyramid structure at W57th St . . and a two twisting-towers project,
around the high-line & W18th St, now under construction . .
both outrageously fun, innovative, confident, even serious masterpieces . .

but I'm no fan of his super-tall NYC tower work . .
His psyche must change working at the more impressive scale . .
Does he get overwhelmed & defensive or something . .
it seems to come out all self-important and self-conscious . .
like he wants to force some sophomoric statement, with impunity . .
with immature, clunky bad buildings . . bad Gargantuan buildings . .

2 WTC & the Spiral are "So What !", "I don't care", unresolved work . .
dug-in small ideas (different than sublime simplicity) . .
at a full, can't ignore 1000+ft. scale . . and bothof these Ingels supertalls,
will seriously compromise the dignity, of a nearby soaring giant landmark,
(1WTC & 30HY). . with bombastic mediocrity . .

the attitude seems to be . .
I'm a big-shot bad-boy, super-starchitect, designing Super-talls in Manhattan . .
whatever I do is great . . so I'm punking your skyline with 2 of my biggest farts . .
just 'cause I can . . Sorry Bjarke, we don't all have to bow down . .

some artists just work better on smaller canvasses . .
doesn't mean that the work is any less significant . .
it can be just as important as monumental work . .
Bjarke, your smaller work is fantastic . . lots more of that please . .

No, it's far better than 50HY, 55HY, 3HY(recent render), and many other office towers. Foster's next door is outdated looking and he should be lambasted for desiging a dull tower given his talents and reputation for making imaginative buildings. Rant about him rather than Bjarke who is imaginative and bringing new ideas to the typical corporate box. It's very likely given trends that without BIG, this would have been a boring conventional box.

Some heavy psuedo-psychobabble in there about Ingles too.