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babybackribs2314 · #21 Posted: **Nov 7, 2012, 4:56 PM**

I want JC to resemble Kowloon. NYC's ancillary skylines have always been so small (relatively), but JC will hopefully be adding the Journal Square supertalls eventually as well.

Hudson11 · #22 Posted: **Nov 7, 2012, 8:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by babybackribs2314

I want JC to resemble Kowloon. NYC's ancillary skylines have always been so small (relatively), but JC will hopefully be adding the Journal Square supertalls eventually as well.

if you have a taste for commieblocks

DrNest · #23 Posted: **Nov 7, 2012, 9:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

love the height and density, hate the renderings.

Exactly how I feel about these. That mismatched jagged boxes look is already looking dated.

Duck From NY · #24 Posted: **Nov 7, 2012, 10:14 PM**

Ill take this design over three boxes with blue glass.

pico44 · #25 Posted: **Nov 8, 2012, 4:22 AM**

These seem like great looking towers. The hate they are getting her is quite perplexing to me. Sometimes I feel like a narrative is established by a person in a thread and then everyone decides they want to join in thoughtlessly. I suspect people will be pleased if the materials are above average.

DrNest · #26 Posted: **Nov 8, 2012, 1:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by pico44

These seem like great looking towers. The hate they are getting her is quite perplexing to me. Sometimes I feel like a narrative is established by a person in a thread and then everyone decides they want to join in thoughtlessly. I suspect people will be pleased if the materials are above average.

No, they're getting disliked because folk have different tastes. Personally I really dislike the recent trend for building mismatched boxes stacked on top. I cringe whenever a rendering for a building shows them. In my opinion the look will quickly become very dated, that it will not matter how good a quality the materials used are. Had nobody else on this thread mentioned a dislike, I still would have my tastes and posted my dislike of the look.

NYguy · #27 Posted: **Nov 8, 2012, 2:32 PM**

Just a matter of how they implement the design. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. But it will look like either a stack of books, or a nice addition to the skyline.

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Image via Mack Cali

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...ower-the-shard

NYguy · #28 Posted: **Nov 15, 2012, 12:54 AM**

Maybe this is the one I was thinking about...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=126370

Crawford · #29 Posted: **Nov 15, 2012, 1:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

Maybe this is the one I was thinking about...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=126370

The Koolhaas design is on a separate site, to the north, and is on hold.

My wild guess is that we get a big tower on that site relatively soon, but not by Koolhaas. His designs are very expensive to implement, and not really ideal for rentals (which is probably the most lucrative market in Jersey City right now).