This week, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Santiago Calatrava released renderings of the scaled back World Trade Center Transportation Hub. A/N Blog | NYT CityRoom
Seriously, is anybody ever fooled by this shit anymore? Name one large public scale project in New York over the past decade that hasn't just been a flagrant bait-and-switch case.
One.
Go ahead.
How about over the past quarter century? Ever seen the original renderings for Battery Park City? It was some huge Brutalist Megastructure. It looked like friggin' Logan's Run! It would've been awesome! Instead y'all got triangle, square, circle ... nice one.
Public projects in New York City are the biggest scam on the planet, and anybody who believes those initial plans and images they roll out to get approval ought to be playing three card monte in Times Square with all the other rubes.
Oct 11, 08 10:22 pm ·
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Nice play on words there buddy..
credit goes to the folks at A/N.
what's wrong with this one? this is not the mezzanine is it? and, what else? "tapered columns are added..."
ahh, now what!?
Seriously, is anybody ever fooled by this shit anymore? Name one large public scale project in New York over the past decade that hasn't just been a flagrant bait-and-switch case.
One.
Go ahead.
How about over the past quarter century? Ever seen the original renderings for Battery Park City? It was some huge Brutalist Megastructure. It looked like friggin' Logan's Run! It would've been awesome! Instead y'all got triangle, square, circle ... nice one.
Public projects in New York City are the biggest scam on the planet, and anybody who believes those initial plans and images they roll out to get approval ought to be playing three card monte in Times Square with all the other rubes.
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