I think the new building is nice but am disappointed by the 115’ decrease in height.
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The first phase is huge from ground level. Seeing on the rendering how large this is, I am astonished by the scale. This one is gonna be huge.
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At least we have WB savings bank tower for variety.
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The tower certainly becomes less and less interesting with each design iteration. There’s one ray of hope for me in this, though I’ll hold my enthusiasm before I see some more renderings. There’s a lovely old public school building on the corner of 3rd ave and Flatbush whose facade looked to be preserved in the original plans. I was disappointed when it looked like it would be overwhelmed by either a cantilever or new interior structure which destroyed it’s street presence. From the looks of it, there’s hope for that building to retain more of it’s contextual appearance. Which is nice, because it has an interplay with the historic architecture across the 3rd avenue. Unfortunately, it looks from this rendering that the school building at State Street will be diminished by façadism, and the infill building demolished completely. All in all though, the street presence on 3rd ave could end up being pretty nice.
I recently visited Dubai and hate to admit but the buildings I saw over there are so innovative and attractive in design. They wouldn’t dare build a square box like this.
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The skyline starts to blend together too much over there and the buildings are bland in their own way. NYC is unmatched IMO