Curbed ranks the reviews by bitchiness.
Curbed ranks the reviews by bitchiness.
3) Astor Place Tower (aka the Sculpture for Living; Gwathmey Siegel): "It might be more at home on the skyline of some other town: Stamford, Charlotte, Tampa all come to mind."
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But they're towers, and they "make a statement". Isn't that what we're teaching our students to aspire to "design" these days?
Wow, don't know what school you went to or teach at, but that certainly hasn't been my experience of architecture academia. Whence the cynicism? Architecture schools have problems, but it seems to me that they're mostly in the direction of over-thinking and over-articulating, these days (at least, in NYC). The cynical under-baking evident in most of these projects is a behavior learned through practice, I'm afraid (and, to be fair, I bet these were terrible, terrible clients).
Astor Place should have been #1, though -- bad towers in Williamsburg don't really hurt anybody, but that monstrosity sitting across the street from Cooper Union is a constant source of dismay.
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