They blue washed it 
Removed any spice the building had
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What are we talking about in regards to blue washing/blued the building?
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The entrance looks more bland too. The walls that lead to the entrance on the base went from brown to gray. Thats just one of many parts of the building that became bland.
Old render:
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Ah, I see.
I don’t necessarily disagree that the colors have definitely been muted some, but that render is also a really bad basis to measure off of because it is insanely saturated.
This render (which is months old now) accurately depicts the color scheme from the recent renders shared from SSP), it’s had a sort of champagne bronze color for a while now.
That’s not to say that the project hasn’t gone down in tone though, since it originally did start off as red and then turned copper, now to the muted champagne color. I wouldn’t really consider that being blue-ified though.
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the desaturation emphasizes the big blue window facade
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Core has reached the top of the podium, one more floor above current rebar for floors to finish the podium.
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Can’t wait to see this building completed, it’ll help with the blue glass wall that is the rest of Hudson yards. It isn’t really visible yet, only the crane really.
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I can already see the back face of the side core from your photo, does anyone remember seeing any renders that showed the east face? I feel like I have seen one but I can’t remember where and I’d like to recall how they are treating it here.
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An immense amount of steel to support the transfer of structure at the top of the podium to the tower layout.
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Related really didn’t want interior columns on those podium floors, wow.
Can anyone say if the diagonal columns on the north and South sides are there to support this?
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I could just be interpreting your comment incorrectly, but I don’t see any angled/skewed columns on the N/S sides.
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Old pics but these are what I was referring to. The more I look at them the more I think it was some ground condition that led to them.
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Column free floor plates are really a norm now regardless if I building’s structure is transitioning from a podium to the tower floor plate.
Obviously with your photos the skewed columns do not directly interact with the main structural transfer at the top of the podium, but they are still transferring loads in general.
To your point something at ground level or in the basement levels probably necessitated the need for the columns to be located where they are in the basement levels to have created these 2 conditions.
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