What's next, a Staten Island Cultural Center? What is going on with the starchitects in the areas around Manhattan? Who drank the Kool-aid on this one? Here's a fun game to pass the time during those soul crushing deadlines: We have Gehry's Brooklyn Yards monstrosity to the East, Rem goes west across the river to Jersey City. Which name-brand draftsperson (PC) will claim the Bronx and or Queens as their turf?
LB, dunno if i'd fail them, but i might slap them for being a smart arse.
i dunno though, if your going to get into heroic formalism for condo developments (or pointless formalism if you like), then this isnt so bad, it sort of a massivly simplified constructivism. you could even find some merit in the structural challenges.
is easily better than this effort be Libeskind, which appears to be nothing more than a very ordinary floor plate with some protruding balconies that just happen to form some kind of sylistic signature.
rem's interior spaces are probably what will sell the design in the end. fenestration and materials are always interesting.
there was another libeskind building that paired up with that one. both are terrible. the thing in kentucky is hideous as well.
i think it resembles a street furniture more.. a road sign to be exact... "whatver st. this way, whatver road that way... pls follow road name signs..."
it would fit nicely on a corner lot and have humongous graphics of street names on its elevation....
"there was another libeskind building that paired up with that one. both are terrible. the thing in Kentucky is hideous as well"
bucku - I saw the Kentucky one this weekend as I was driving across the bridge to Cincinnati. I can't believe how fast it has gone up. I also can't believe how nasty it is. I'm really curious to see it completed but it better turn out better than the renderings because it's a big guy and there is nothing worse than really huge architectural failures for everyone to enjoy.
Regarding OMA - I wonder if they will use 2X4 to do all their graphics for cj w.'s proposed street sign super graphic idea...
can you guys figure out the orientation of the tower? which portion of the tower is parallel with the hudson river? just half of condo units get the view?
OMA does...Jersey?
What's next, a Staten Island Cultural Center? What is going on with the starchitects in the areas around Manhattan? Who drank the Kool-aid on this one? Here's a fun game to pass the time during those soul crushing deadlines: We have Gehry's Brooklyn Yards monstrosity to the East, Rem goes west across the river to Jersey City. Which name-brand draftsperson (PC) will claim the Bronx and or Queens as their turf?
I don't know if OMA can claim Jersey City, considering that Cesar Pelli had a tower on the waterfront for a few years now.
i didn't think ANYBODY could claim Jersey...
hey! a lot gets done in Jersey, more than in NYC anyway.
meta, hey! That's Doctor Bon Jovi to you, pal.
The flyswatter comment made me laugh out loud. I would fail a second year student who presented this design to me.
Doesn't Michael Graves claim Jersey?
Oh, and I wish the majority of people would stop pronouncing his name "Cool-House". It sounds like "Coal-Hass".
LB, dunno if i'd fail them, but i might slap them for being a smart arse.
i dunno though, if your going to get into heroic formalism for condo developments (or pointless formalism if you like), then this isnt so bad, it sort of a massivly simplified constructivism. you could even find some merit in the structural challenges.
is easily better than this effort be Libeskind, which appears to be nothing more than a very ordinary floor plate with some protruding balconies that just happen to form some kind of sylistic signature.
now that i'd fail in 2nd year
rem's interior spaces are probably what will sell the design in the end. fenestration and materials are always interesting.
there was another libeskind building that paired up with that one. both are terrible. the thing in kentucky is hideous as well.
another of these box-piling-things from koolhaas; must these oma-kids ever play around with their toy collection...
i think it resembles a street furniture more.. a road sign to be exact... "whatver st. this way, whatver road that way... pls follow road name signs..."
it would fit nicely on a corner lot and have humongous graphics of street names on its elevation....
something like this...
haha. perfect photo.
looks like the folks at OMA were playing jenga
"there was another libeskind building that paired up with that one. both are terrible. the thing in Kentucky is hideous as well"
bucku - I saw the Kentucky one this weekend as I was driving across the bridge to Cincinnati. I can't believe how fast it has gone up. I also can't believe how nasty it is. I'm really curious to see it completed but it better turn out better than the renderings because it's a big guy and there is nothing worse than really huge architectural failures for everyone to enjoy.
Regarding OMA - I wonder if they will use 2X4 to do all their graphics for cj w.'s proposed street sign super graphic idea...
I guess they are...see todays job postings
2x4 is looking for more help.
'another of these box-piling-things from koolhaas'
yeah, I don't get rem's recent box-piling infatuation. Gehry did it a lot in the eighties, and he did it a lot better.
woo hoo, i actually live in that neighborhood. i wonder how this will affect my rent...
what's wrong with staten island?
can you guys figure out the orientation of the tower? which portion of the tower is parallel with the hudson river? just half of condo units get the view?
yeah, Rem's resorted to ripping off dead people!
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