From 85th street
10 Likes
JDS: If it’s such a gift of craftsmanship and artistry why not arrange to get the lighting scheme to work? Then I might agree. As it is, at night it’s half a derelict.
7 Likes
It’s really telling when BOTH the facade and crown lighting are not working. Different applications of lighting both happened to fail? What, do they share the same power outlet? 
We never even saw the crown tested. Did L’Observatoire even install it? They are quite world renowned and have lit many buildings and sculptures in our city. So what happened here? Shouldn’t someone be getting a refund?
I know I continuously harp on this project but it’s only because everything else came out spectacular. I can take CPT’s failure (barely) because even though it’s tall, it’s quite boring in form and materials.
10 Likes
I absolutely feel like you and we have the right to keep pointing that out. Hell I keep posting comments about it on Instagram while tagging JDS. We saw that lighting in renderings from A DECADE ago and it had many of us hyped. Just look back at when they tested the lighting, look how much attention that recieved on this forum alone.
The lighting will absolutely sell the design, plus how could you have the THINNEST TOWER IN THE WORLD in NEW YORK CITY stay dark in the skyline for all of these years now. Also we did not see the crown lighting tested, just the wavy vertical strips along the terracotta
7 Likes
Baranson. If you go months back in this thread to May and June 1922 you’ll find images showing tests of the lighting. Some of it worked and a lot of it didn’t. No other testing occurred as far as I can tell. They apparently decided it wasn’t worth fixing. As I understand the system it was actually integrated into each piece of the siding. The siding pieces created a connected system. It bombed.
4 Likes
Thanks yeah I remember the facade being tested but not the crown. I recall them promoting it as some sort of chandelier form and effect. That was one of the points of my post… like was it never installed and they just said screw it? Lighting the crown should have been separate and immeasurably easier and less error prone than the facade… yet we have nothing.
With the facade, I’m starting to think residents complained but what would be the reason for the crown to be ditched?
3 Likes
The fact that this entire facade was engineered with integral LED strips and none of them have been used in three years is actually an incredible embarrassment. It is millions of dollars being poured down the drain.
10 Likes
Baronson—I don’t think anyone had moved in by the time of the tests.
2 Likes
*While you sit back and wonder why, I got this &@(# thorn in my side, oh my god it’s a mirage
I’m tellin’ ya’ll it’s
1 Like
6 Likes
That photo above by Cloudscraper is what I would call the ‘vicinity’ vantage point: nice pic.
BTW. - Notice how the photo I posted here is ACTUALLY about the Scrape The Cloud Above 
This tower shows very well on all three vantages points: street view, vicinity view, and best of all skyline view: here are a couple Street Views.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKKx7YQuTaK/
13 Likes
whoa finally something
1 Like
Is that just sunlight reflected within? No WAY they’d fiiiiinally do some light testing (mid-day, no less)! 
After so many years, I’ve kinda given up on seeing this building lit up 
2 Likes
Honestly just looks like the low hanging winter sun reflecting through the panels. Only can see this in the colder months as the sun is further south even mid-day.
5 Likes
Getting stuck in Central Park today during the race - the amount of people who still think this building is still under construction is funny. It definitely looks like scaffolding or unfinished structural work to most folks.
4 Likes
I guess you may be right.. got my hopes up