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This project really grows on me as all these nice touches reveal themselves. Still, I can’t shake the bad feeling I get when I think about how the historic school building on the site is going to get subsumed by the second tower. Scaling back the cantilever that swallows it up seems like a no-brainer that would vastly improve the street presence of the all elevations on the western end of the site.
i would assume that the design of the taller tower will continue to evolve just like the smaller tower did.
I certainly hope so.
If those large windows are all facing directly south; much of the interior could be heated by the sun during the winter months. It is what Architects refer to as “solar heat gain”. This building is designed to achieve something similar to “passive house” standards in energy consumption. This is a good example of how Architecture is more than skin-deep: the form must be pretty, and the function must be smart… 
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Yes and no, Solar heat gain is the amount of heat radiation that passes through the façade of a building to then “heat” the interior of it. But windows are designed to have various solar heat gain coefficients that prevent or allow a certain amount of radiation to be admitted to the interior spaces. But the elevation in Alemel’s image faces Northwest, the image is taken at sunset. It doesn’t really have an elevation that faces perfectly south.
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Yes, TKDV. I agree on your specifics: but thats the general idea as best I understand LEAD, and energy efficiency.
I would like to take this course someday to learn more on the subject. This is a great project to follow given the design considerations regarding energy efficiency.
https://calendar.aiany.org/2021/12/08/passive-house-windows/
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Generally, yes, you’re understanding it right, but because no one face of the building really faces the south when the most intense sunlight and heat gain would be possible, SHG isn’t really a factor/can’t really be used to heat the building during the colder months, especially not the NW face as it receives the least amount of sunlight and solar radiation in the winter months based on the lowered altitude and decreased azimuth of the sun.
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I have been looking a the ‘path of the sun NY’ and see how the sun is much lower in the sky this time of year. This is the best illustration I have found at this point.
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The light is pretty much great all day long this time of year.
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The First Tower slab was poured to Level 29 and the facade was installed up to Level 14.
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Shape certainly reminds me of the Flatiron Building. But the facade makes this one nice but not great. So it goes.
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