I took the big boat trip around Manhattan, and it’s really worth it. I don’t quite understand the second question, but the trip is really worth it.
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Circle Line
2,5 hour boat Trip around Manhattan island
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I’ve taken the Circle Line trip around the island. It’s a great ride. The views are often spectacular and you see stuff that the ferries don’t reach, like the west side. The part around the northern tip of the island is beautiful. If you don’t want to listen to the spiel then bring ear buds and some nice music to listen to!
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I’ve taken the full circle tour around Manhattan three times now, and I find the tour guides to be very funny and informative.
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Getting caught up on old photos
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The tops of these buildings are weird. Otherwise they’re decent.
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They’re starting to zip up where the construction elevator was. You can also see some effects of the iridescent facade due to some reflections and light on the left side of the shorter tower. It also looks like the square next door is nearing completion?
I actually had the opportunity to see the mockup facade for this up close (as I did with 262 5th previously) on a recent work trip, The iridescent nature of the panels is actually very beautiful so it’s kind of a shame you don’t really see it unless up close.
From the 25th
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It’s also a shame, in my view, that the grey bunkers up top could not have been tiled in those iridescent panels (or designed away entirely). It’s disappointing that such prominent towers should soar to such an unremarkable (to put it charitably) termination. Par for the course these days, but still bothersome.
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Looking at the photo above and the adaptive reuse of that factory building. The idea of putting that glass structure ‘inside’ of the original brick facade was just a bad idea: it does not LOOK good or FUNCTION well.
The Porter House adaptive reuse project illustrates a good example of what would have been better way to go with this factory building.
The Domino Sugar Building will be an architectural ‘white elephant’ for years to come IMHO. The fact that this building still remains empty after completion years ago - and with no prospective tenant on the horizon - speaks to my contention that this building is lacking not only in FORM - but particularly in FUNCTION.
Thanks to 5Bfilms for the photo. Real working windows on this facade with interior light eminating from the inside would have made this beautiful brick facade POP. This historic facade now looks dark, dull, and dilapidated. 
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/white-elephant
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Most commercial office projects don’t have operable windows, this one does.
Comparing different function buildings isn’t a good idea because different functions serve different purposes and are built different.
The whole reason the new structure was brought back from the old structure was to put plantings in the interstitial space. Contrary to the belief that there is less light because the windows arent in the tiny windows of the old brick facade, there is actually much more light.
I don’t particularly care for PAUs work but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the factory building from a functional standpoint. Its also only been opened for a single year since last Sept, not years.
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