NEW YORK | Central Park Tower (Nordstrom)| 1,550 FT | 131 FLOORS - Page 259

jayden · #**5161** Posted **Mar 23, 2018, 1:26 PM**

So still another 600+ feet to grow? This will totally dominate everything around it.

NYguy · #**5162** Posted **Mar 24, 2018, 1:08 AM**

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bgrj0qln...ed=centralpark

https://www.instagram.com/p/BgreNIml...ken-by=rox.rnr

Skyrocket27 · #**5163** Posted **Mar 24, 2018, 6:47 AM**

http://https://jayboy2727.tumblr.com/post/172194771540

NYguy · #**5164** Posted **Mar 26, 2018, 7:11 AM**

samo_wi

NYguy · #**5165** Posted **Mar 26, 2018, 3:39 PM**

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf3fygWn...icorealtygroup

NYguy · #**5166** Posted **Mar 27, 2018, 3:24 PM**

Roman Kruglov

NYguy · #**5167** Posted **Mar 29, 2018, 12:57 AM**

Silvana Dell

Tobias

NYguy · #**5168** Posted **Mar 31, 2018, 1:15 AM**

https://www.instagram.com/p/BgzFAQNH...aken-by=ripk10

photoLith · #**5169** Posted **Mar 31, 2018, 3:23 PM**

^
I still can't believe all the change that's happened in the past 5 years from that view. It's absolutely incredible.

antinimby · #**5170** Posted **Mar 31, 2018, 5:16 PM**

^ The view of the skyline is so much better with peaks and contrasting heights, a concept the NIMBYs do not get with their nonsense need to have everything be the same heights/fitting in/contextual.

WhatTheHeck5205 · #**5171** Posted **Mar 31, 2018, 7:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by antinimby

^ The view of the skyline is so much better with peaks and contrasting heights, a concept the NIMBYs do not get with their nonsense need to have everything be the same heights/fitting in/contextual.

Contexualism isn’t always “nonsense” when it comes to things like setbacks and quality of design/materials though. Just look at the huge number of Kaufman/Poon budget hotels with their huge plazas and garish materials and the damage they’ve done to the cityscape of the Garment District. Or the rampant value-engineering that ruined 5 Beekman. Or the travesty that is the watered-down design of Moinian’s 3 Hudson Blvd. Those are the cases where a little bit of neighborhood opposition honestly wouldn’t be inappropriate. Unfortunately, howver, the NIMBY crowd has decided to ignore those real issues and fight against attractive, high-quality buildings just because they’re tall. In that regard I agree with you—their opposition to these towers is completely unwarranted.

chris08876 · #**5172** Posted **Mar 31, 2018, 9:48 PM**

On a side note, a few posts up, check out 220 CPS. Blends in so well with the much older structures in the foreground (along CP South).

220 CPS and 111 W 57th will be ones for the architecture books. I could just picture a nice book at some college called "fundamentals of architecture" with a pic of Steinway on the front cover and being used in some architecture class for freshmen.

Sadly, the class on the exam had an average of a 20... and only 1 passed. He went on to design the 1st mega tall for NYC. After great success, and going on to designing Chicago's 1st mega tall, he was struck by a bus (that was taking NIMBYs to a community meeting) and died.

But he is not to be forgotten, as the "fundamentals of architecture", with the Steinway pic, inspired him to transform two skylines.

(credits screen)