Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his way with words. His orations have charmed competition juries, and in a 2003 profile, critic Paul Goldberger wrote, “For an architect who loves to talk, Libeskind says very little about his buildings that could be considered analytical.” Not so for the project he simply calls his “New York tower,” a colossus that would reach more than 900 feet above Madison Square Park. “There is no spiel,” he said in a telephone interview this afternoon. “This is not a building about a shape or a facade. It’s really a building about how New York goes forward, how to build and live in a high-density Manhattan.” AN | A/N Blog | prev.
from the A/N Blog post:
...But before we go, one caveat. The developer refused to release any of these images–except for the one we posted of the terrace gardens–when we requested them. “They were made at least a year ago, for publication purposes, and no longer reflect the current state of the project,” Lloyd Kaplan, spokesperson for developer Elad Properties, told us. Still, they provide the most complete picture of the project yet. And, even if it does change, as long as it looks half this good, we think everyone will be happy.
-Matt Chaban (AN)
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hahahaha “For an architect who loves to talk, Libeskind says very little about his buildings that could be considered analytical.”
what else is new???
i know very few architects this days that say anything analytical, is all about selling lifestyles, not anymore about space, function and how does it fulfill the requirements of an user(s)
Does anyone miss the soupy earnest meaningful Libeskind? Not me, but I still think Foster would do this building better. . . maybe I'm wrong.
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