Their singular issue is affordable housing, of which there will be some 150-units. The sticking point is that those apartments will only be reserved for low-income tenants for 35 years. The board wants permanent affordability, instead. “As a community board, we are supposed to do the best we can to preserve and maintain our communities and keep them going,” Mr. Nolan said. — observer.com
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Silly people. Today's luxury housing is tomorrow's affordable option. In 35 years, the entire building will be affordable, yo!
Good. Great victory!
While BIG provided a clever, aesthetically interesting solution, there are bigger issues at play amongst self-determining communities who are learning they have the power and will to strike back against the colonizing forces of 'luxury'.
Rest assured the renderings were good enough that designers worldwide got their rocks off and went on to the next shiny object.
The affordable housing must make up all of those awkward corners and points...
But seriously, this is garbage architecture. Plain and simple. Forcing housing inside of a contorted pyramid is just asking for years of headlines about how awful it is. It will be torn down after 15 years.
Ingles work annoys me. I know everyone loves the guy, he seems like a cool dude, and it is amazing how much success he has gained at such a young age, but his work seems like it is always forced to conform to some pre-determined formal idea like Darkman suggested. I'm just not convinced that these forms are doing much for the program or spaces inside. His process seems like he makes a cool form and then squeezes stuff into it. The airplane was shaped by real constraints and scientific principles, It is still sexy, butt sexy was not its purpose, flying was. I always believed that form and beauty should be the inevitable biproduct of thoughtful design rather than the pre-concieved goal. I would like to see more of that approach in architecture.
The airplane is a great example of what design is... New York itself is shaped by similar principles where each building responds to the volume of the grid. I like the idea of a courtyard in the middle, but the contorted shape just seems like shape-making. Just think of the Guggenheim in NYC, which is based upon an interesting idea of interior circulation but makes an interesting shape in itself. That's architecture.
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