On Tuesday, an agreement was reached between West Side elected officials and the Port Authority that said the agency would expand the planning process for a new $10 billion bus terminal with more local input. And just today they’ve revealed the five proposals that were submitted to a design competition to replace the currently loathed site. — 6sqft
Big-name firms Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Arcadis, AECOM, Perkins Eastman, and Archilier Architecture Consortium provided proposal, a number of which take on swooping forms and boast green roofs.
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This is a shitty selection of firms.
youre right davvid, it should have been these:
1. BIG
2. BIG
3. BIG
4. BIG
5. BIG
sameolddoctor,
But that would've hurt the fragile egos of too many mediocre middle aged male architects.
Not sure if a diagrammatic slogan approach (BIG) would work with such a complex problem. That said, these proposals could use a lot of fat cutting. None jump out, most if not all are too big--utilizing every square inch of government land on the west side. It's almost if--they know their client is the Pork Authority.
Just a simple station would suffice. Archiler is the most interesting, if you hire the Broad consultants it might be economical. The rest seem too big.... if they are trying to avoid high costs.... good luck. Obviously it's not the architects that drive high costs, but organizations like the Pork Authority that encourage ad hoc, poorly designed solutions.
My solution: If you separate it into three parts: grand entry, service/waiting, bus. Far west side. Hire Shigeru Ban to find a nice cheap structural approach, and add some concrete walls and colorful glass. Done.
Also, what the hell does "community feedback" mean in the middle of Times Square. Are you going to poll the entire world? Bullshit.
I'd say:
1) Herzog De Meuron
2) Herzog De Meuron
3) Herzog De Meuron
4) Herzog De Meuron
5) Herzog De Meuron
or more realistically
1) Herzog De Meuron
2) OMA
3) DS+R
4) Snohetta
5) ZHA
1. Saarinen
2. HOK + BIG (for marketing)
3. REX
4. Shigeru Ban
5. Holl
1. UNStudio
2. Toyo Ito
3. So_IL
4. Morphosis
5. ZHA
- Kengo Kuma
- Holl
- Studio Gang
- Work AC
- Andrew Berman
- Michael Maltzan
- Shop
- Snohetta
- Selldorf Architects
- David Adjaye
- DS&R
- OMA
- Renzo Piano
- SO-IL
- Mos
- MAD
- SANAA
- wHY
- Morphosis
- Herzog and de Meuron
- Curoso St John
- Lacaton & Vassal
- REX
- MVRDV
- Sou Fujimoto
- Jean Nouvel
- Allied Works
- Rick Joy
- ZHA
- Thomas Phifer
- Tadao Ando
- David Chipperfield
davvid are you a starfucker? btw i was kidding.
sameolddoctor,
I guess you're one of those guys who wonders why he's not getting fucked.
suck my escalator.
Dang! Diller Scofidio + Renfro not even mentioned once in all of your rambling starchitectural choice of firms...
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