"Its raining, heavy winds, . . lightning in its ferocious intensity
lights up the facade for a brief 2-3 seconds.
Has that Gotham look to it. Like an evil persons lair."
- chris08876 (feb 10th post)
beVARE ! . . the ominous TV spook lurks above ! . .
I only hope the tower doesn't loose its edge . . Literally !
namely the sharpness of the wedge that slices up into the sky . .
Many developers seem to think crown-uniqueness is somehow superfluous . .
they cluelessly hack off unique crown characteristics . .
They pull this routine at the last min. . . Hines won't at Verre . .
Here, ultra severe "dangerous" Gotham, is emblematic . .
But the angled Citicorp Tower Concept in the early render,
originally had a sleek, ulta-modern, razor-sharp top edge.
But the bastardized version actually built, radically blunted the top edge . .
The famous skyline wedge now sports wide "shelves" atop & below its slope . .
compromising the geometry . . (crucial "practical" reasons, plus savings) . .
(shape's even uglier with innumerable irregular hair-like antennae
"growing" out of it) . . Both north & south flat roof shelves, could've been
"dropped into" (hidden behind) a sharper east-west geometric profile . .
Developers love dumbing down unique, well-considered architectural design
for prissy architectural conservatives . . who get very uncomfortable
with the actual completion, of the fierce rogue design-punch, of a talented architect . .
After all, money's involved . . Here, Novell's top caliber shape, remains fierce as ever.
Sharp Spikes were, however, hacked off WTC tower 3 . .
their piercing distinctiveness obliterated . . Silverstein saved a traitorous buck . .
WTC tower 2 - Foster's amazingly intricate & expensive crown, hacked flat . .
no need to triumphantly accentuate BIG's easily stacked, cheap floor-plans . .
. . CPT's simple, but sublime, deco corner spire, got shunned . .
our tallest building grossly disarmed !!! . .
With that awesome spire, CPT is just too triumphantly "American" . .
too powerfully "Empire City" . . for Chinese billionaire-buyer sensibilities . .
Like a "privett" (rich folks' privacy hedge), hanging 1550 ft. over NYC . .
Extell now symbolically lords moneyed foreign "discretion" . .
(a dismal camouflage of blandness) from the very pinnacle of beloved Gotham . .
45 Broad Street, still fairly decent, got its sharp bristly top-shards neutered . .
they don't pierce sky now . . their silhouette wimps-out before a tall, flat parapet . .
the same could happen to 9 De Kalb before all is done . .
I assume KPF's tall shapely tops at 30 HY & 1 Vanderbilt, will be left un-redacted . .
But with all this cheap dumbing down, the hacking up, camouflaging, neutering,
and taming of proud NYC Tower Crowns . . its all much too "safe" & generic now . .
Hard to imagine many new evil lairs manifesting way up there . .
Thankfully, the dastardly wicked, horned Verre Spook, is soon to reside
in the thrillingly "evil" shard, slicing the stormy firmament above Gotham . .
go ghost-hunting anybody ? . .
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