A planned 75-story residential skyscraper connected to the Museum of Modern Art seems headed for a fight with area residents, who claim the Jean Nouvel-designed tower would be dramatically out of scale with the surrounding neighborhood. NY Observer via Curbed | previously
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Friggin' civilians, man.
I'm sorry, but isn't that "neighborhood" like Midtown freaking Manhattan?? This isn't like in the east village or anything.
No kidding. What a joke. Hopefully this will all turn out to be some kind of avant garde live theater production. Sarcasm is the only way this kind of complaint would make any sense.
"dramatically out of scale"... with midtown? FTW?
Personally i like it. Tall and slenderish.
Plus, certain groups/neighborhoods need to get beyond the whole preservationist NIMBY stance otherwise contemporary NY will simply reflect a historical static image of the city....
NIMBY bastids!
um, isn't that tower in the top left corner actually TALLER?!?
sorry, top right
Sure looks that way in the rendering...
No, that's Pelli's MOMA Condo tower. It's about 600ish feet, but it looks taller because of the angle. Apparently, in Midtown, 600 feet is "low-rise"?
this community board vote is largely symbolic. they act as "advisers" to landmarks, but landmarks makes the real decision (before passing it on to dob etc). i don't think it's uncommon for landmarks to vote in opposition to community boards. i'm currently working on a project that was "disapproved" by the local cb, but approved by landmarks. a project must be presented to a cb before landmarks will see it, but it doesn't dictate how they will vote.
also, in my single experience the cb was made up of a bunch of people with opinions (and seemingly little else in the way of background, related experience or education), whereas the landmarks committee is made up of informed people with developed opinions and educational and professionals backgrounds in line with their position...
nevermind, I'm sure the credit crunch was gonna stop it anyway.
I think the purpose of community boards is to disagree with every proposal. They are probably more worried about it blocking the view from their own 40th floor apartment across the street. I have to say I did get a kick out of the comment that the building is "out of scale" for the neighborhood, it makes me wonder if he even lives in Midtown.
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