Penthouse for sale: $40,ooo,000 million dollars. Take a tour - if this link opens. That is Forty Million Dollars: wow.
That’s 10 million more than a full floor penthouse in 30 Park Place with four terraces, which has been languishing. They’re dreaming.
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Where. Is. The. Crown. Lights.
Must have been scrapped. I live across the street and never see them, nor does it look like there is any equipment for them
That crown is a fine design; elegant bifurcated swooping upward curves one could say in Archi-speak. It is unfortunate that crane must be permanently (and obtrusively) perched on top in plane sight. I think it as needed for window washing and/or maintenance on the facade.
Indeed; this is the view from my window:
Almost hidden, but not quite. They have angled it to try to hide it as much as possible but from a distance it is still quite noticeable.
Anyone know if the BMU final placement will be below the parapet? Would be a shame to mar a beautiful building with a high placement.
There is just no hiding that thing on top: unfortunate. This building has a truly elegant shape, and a smoothly refined facade, the mechanical equipment at the top will have to be overlooked as best as… possible.
And it’s not just the BMU. It’s also the bulkhead that sits below it, which is highly visible from the west. I simply don’t understand going to the trouble of designing and building something that is, as you say @infoshare, elegant and refined only to top it off with something positively inelegant and unrefined. How much money is saved by not extending the facade ever so slightly higher I wonder? KPF’s Madison Square Tower is another disappointing example, looking particularly awful from the south.
Sadly, another recent (and otherwise attractive) KPF building-- 260 Kent–follows suit.
Wow…I had not seen this view. If I did not know better, I would assume that clutter at the top was some temporary equipment for finishing up the construction on the building. I do know better, and that mechanical equipment is a permanent fixture on top; looks awful.
Ridiculous. What a waste of a beautiful architectural idea. This is a lesson in how to make a really nice building stink. Too bad for all of us who live or work in the city.