At that height, the new tower would become the second tallest building in the city, surpassing the Empire State Building and even 1 World Trade Center, if you don’t count the 400-foot antenna that drives its height to the symbolic reaches of 1,776 feet. — Observer
It's mostly just idle Internet speculation, but it's the most intriguing thing the Uruguayan has designed since the Walkie Talkie tower. The project is located on the old Drake Hotel site, at 57th Street and Park Avenue, and can be seen from Central Park in the rendering above—Jean Nouvel's MoMA tower is at right.
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Really? That's a solution? I hope the client is paying by the hour.
somebody please humble it to a lower height.
it is fugly
They might as well continue using the extrusion command and raise it a few more hundred feet to surpass the antenna on 1 world trade
It's gawdawful...I wish the city would come up with some sort of a height restriction for certain districts, so we don't end up with gehry-esque towers all over the place. I'm sure something like this exists, but its too easy to go around it by buying air rights.
so good.
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