This just looks like another failed attempt at Lot-ek actually producing built work. They can't even detail a shipping container. How are they going to detail a highrise?
funky either or? I dunno, its just a wierd building. I kinda like weird buildings, but i can see why others may not like this one per se.
I like the variation in the facade, but the shape seems so arbitrary. What the hell is it trying to respond to? Or is this just another building with an ego?
just curious (even though I can only already imagine) but we are talking about Chinatown in NYC correct? is there a contextual image here (of that locale)?? just wondering - cause to me it is always about the context, good bad or indifferent
In all honestly though, what is the actualy possibility that LOT/EK will get something built??? It seems like I am always seeing these renderings of LOT/EK stuff (and it is usually incredible) but it never happens.
I give it a 15% chance!
LOT-EK coming to Chinatown!
Could a LOT-EK building actually be built in Chinatown?
hmm, the building seems to be crooked...
and purple
is that a chinese letter too?
It's like the (even uglier) step-sibling to Tschumi's Blue on the Lower East Side.
You better watch what you say about Blue.
This just looks like another failed attempt at Lot-ek actually producing built work. They can't even detail a shipping container. How are they going to detail a highrise?
Where does the airplane go?
thats cold JP (even though I agree)
i dunno, its kinda funky
funky bad, funky good?
funky either or? I dunno, its just a wierd building. I kinda like weird buildings, but i can see why others may not like this one per se.
I like the variation in the facade, but the shape seems so arbitrary. What the hell is it trying to respond to? Or is this just another building with an ego?
damn, gabe, you beat me...
i was gonna chime in with a "suck it, pisa!"
It's a hell of a lot more interesting than the dog shit that's currently in chinatown.
just curious (even though I can only already imagine) but we are talking about Chinatown in NYC correct? is there a contextual image here (of that locale)?? just wondering - cause to me it is always about the context, good bad or indifferent
Yes, Chinatown NYC, sorry Squirrelly. I should have mentioned that in the post.
no worries, thanks......but wondering if anyone has (or has link to) a contextual image of chinatown
It reminds me of the awful Johnson Burgee towers in Madrid. At least his wasn't purple and have shipping containers crammed in it...
In all honestly though, what is the actualy possibility that LOT/EK will get something built??? It seems like I am always seeing these renderings of LOT/EK stuff (and it is usually incredible) but it never happens.
I give it a 15% chance!
zoning?
squirrelly...
it's on the corner of lafayette and white..
here's a link to the googlemap
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=Canal+St,+New+York,+New+York,+New+York,+United+States&layer=&ie=UTF8&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.048013,84.199219&hl=en&z=18&ll=40.717314,-74.000961&spn=0.001752,0.005139&t=h&om=1&iwloc=addr
and..if i'm reading the map right..they photoshopped the above
picture and they're cutting through an existing building.
is it really legal to cantilever over the property line?
only if you buy the neighbor's air rights - see the porter house building in the meatpacking by shop.
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