I dunno, I live in Amish country where the tallest buildings are grain silos so I don’t have all the buildings in NYC memorized. Maybe there’s an uglier one. My only point was, I hate this building. I don’t even like the concept of it. The idea of having a drop ride inside a building makes it seem like a carnival ride.
I know most of y’all won’t agree with me, but I like boring, serious buildings like the ones being built in LIC. If they have just a little subtlety to set them off, great. If not, I still like them. Take the Journal Square trio, marvelous. Or One Manhattan Square, gorgeous. That’s me, not this rodeo, side show clown of a building.
Cedar B— I love NYC and am certainly more architecturally adventurous than you. But I do agree that inserting a carnival ride in a skyscraper is tacky at best. At worst it’s a wasted resource. Spend the money on housing instead and I will smile more.
Lol, she’s one of my clients! And she is definitely into development and real estate. She has a few properties here in Manhattan that are unknown publicly but you’d be shocked to know most of them are brand new buildings!
I don’t doubt that this building will have lighting as we already know it will per application information, but whether it looks like the one artistic render (which as others previously said looks like it has a cyberpunk hugh ferris style applied to it, also unfortunately of the old design from before the rides were introduced which made the building look so much better) is really the question. Any lighting would not have that pronounced of a vertical affect on the different geometries. Some of the other renders do show the specific down/flood cove lights though.
