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Originally Posted by RobEss
It's a very cheap and uninspired trick for such a large and visible building - two solid walls of uninterrupted studded glass, paired with two solid walls of Trumpian metallic-tinted windows. NYC deserves better.
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I mean it’s not the Chrysler Building, but it’s nowhere near as bad as some of Trump’s stuff. Extell (the developer of this tower) may not always go for cutting-edge design but they usually manage to deliver an overall high-quality building. They did at least go to the extra expense of varying the glasswork and they didn’t leave any bare concrete walls or exposed mechanicals on the roof like some other developers would be content to do. Plus it’s in a location that, although it’s visually prominent, isn’t nearly as high-end as 57th Street for example. So even if it’s not the most stellar design, I’m going to give them credit for carrying it out pretty well.
Though I genuinely didn’t realize until now that the metallic-tinted parts were glass. I thought they were actually some kind of metal panels to hide blank walls. I’m slightly disappointed by that.
(As a sidenote btw, I do wish NYC had some kind of design standards for prominent sites like this as opposed to just trying to regulate the height of new buildings. There definitely are some places where the city “deserves” better design than it gets—i just don’t know if this is necesarily such a bad one though.)
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