Jeanne Gang will soon join the likes of Neil Denari, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, and Shigeru Ban with a new project near the High Line in New York City. The roughly 180,000-square-foot office tower will rise along 10th Avenue between 13th and 14th streets, pending city approval. — archpaper.com
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"Jeanne Gang will soon join the likes of Neil Denari, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, and Shigeru Ban"...to be lionized by the Architgectural PR machine as the anointed avant guard. Another glass box but with a twist. The sun angles carve it to create the only archtiectural interest. Didn't the set back laws of 1917 do this already?
A pity it's not as materially expressive as her other work. The sun-path and zoning totally dictating the massing is logical, but not very special. Hopefully the carved/ridged surfaces supply lots of interest.
god Thayer, you are so set in faux-old shenanigans, it will take years of living in the Avery library to open up your faux-old trolling mind.
Looks like bow of Titanic. And it's close to water. This will be a photo op in storms to come.
if the sun angles had some druid or aztec sun worshiping value, I'd be willing to give her a pass, but it is an office buildings. Also, as anyone who's familiar with the faux-old practice of considering natural light in buildings, the arcs as shown only exist two times a year. BTW, does doing a shear glass curtain wall like Mies did 100 years ago qualify Gang as a faux-oldie? Not if modernism is your religion.
ugh.
The idea of a curtain wall is old, but Gang's application is by no means faux, let alone faux-old.
The idea of a curtain wall is certainly old even though it might be new to a young architectural student, and there's the problem with the faux-old criticism. Whether it be an Italianate cornice or a glass curtain wall, a young architect's enthusiasm towards either ought to be nourished and not supressed with an old ideology that says one has more validity than another becasue it's been around longer. That's the same kind of institutionalized thinking that the early modernists fought against, and that's the real faux issue being perpetrated.
ugh.
Late renaissance ugh.
Ay dios mio, este guebonerro si le gusta jugar con su clip art!
Wow, they've designed a building that will cast a shadow under sunlight. That's pretty cool!
Yo!
The idea of a curtain wall is certainly old even though it might be new to a young architectural student, and there's the problem with the faux-old criticism.
Young students don't worship curtain walls, that is just the paranoid faux-old's attempt at pigeonholing everything as part of some modernist scheme. It is also a root cause of their ignorance. The faux-old sees more things through the eyes of Corb than any neomodernist.
Whether it be an Italianate cornice or a glass curtain wall, a young architect's enthusiasm towards either ought to be nourished and not supressed with an old ideology that says one has more validity than another becasue it's been around longer.
Most young architects are not interested in designing caves for neadrathals, so there is no need to pretend like something is being suppressed Faux-old is philosophically bankrupt because it is unable to address contemporary needs, instead it is lazy and reflects the bygone.
That's the same kind of institutionalized thinking that the early modernists fought against, and that's the real faux issue being perpetrated.
No that's life, it's why we don't live in caves.
been through this discussion too many times... faux-old facepalm
is someone along the lines of Caruso St. John "faux-old" in your opinion?
Yo Update,
You're a divider, not a uniter, and no amount of hate will keep people from loving whatever it is they love, be it curtain walls or not. The idea is to expand the possible, not decrease it as you would have people do. Let's take a sampling of your confused logic, shall we? "The faux-old sees more things through the eyes of Corb than any neomodernist" This is espesially rich since you aknowledge that modernism is now a revival style, yet that's ok? In the words of a famous Hempstead poet, "you work for ups".
BTW, why do you keep using realistic classical sculptures to make your point? Oh yeah, I wouldn't get it if you didn't. How "faux-old" of you!
You're a divider, not a uniter
yeah that's what the GOP said about someone too. Some things are just better off staying in the past bro.
You can't hide behind politics, bro, I'm glad as hell my fellow mulatto won last night. Liberals are about inclusion, not the division you espouse between modernists and traditionalists. Just a tip, everything before the present is histor. There's no good or bad history just as there's no real-old or faux old. It's all old, just a matter of how much. I'm surprised you didn't indulge me with another clever statue though, there's one of a little boy in Bruxelles I'd like to share with you.
Peace.
But there is progress.
We have yet to see the faux-old approach anything on peaceful terms, it is always second-guessing and massively pushing back. Look to the future bro.
It's all been said before... can't keep repeating stuff.
Have a nice day.
it will be very nice for the tenants of 450 west 14 street!
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