It’s amazing, Chris.
NYC is Rome at the height of the Empire.
NYC has more than 1,000 more completed 200 foot tall buildings than any other city.
Just overwhelming might and power.
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Has an application already been submitted to erect the platform above the tracks for Phase Two?
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“We will have completed $5 billion of new P3 [public private partnership] developments,” said Don Peebles of the Peebles Corporation. “Angels Landing in L.A. and Affirmation Tower in New York will be under construction.”
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From 11.16.23:
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Honestly, I think it looks better
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Kinda picks up on the design language of nearby 50 HY 
I like it! Interesting how that area hasn’t been there for a decade but already needs renovating 
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I wouldnt say age affects the need to renovate in this instance, the building has to be retrofitted to accomodate a tenant that needs lots of window/ natural light since the current building barely has any on the east face.
I always wondered why they didn’t build a facade like this facing 10th Ave in the first place. It looks a lot more inviting.
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Yeah… still keeps those blocks of 10th Ave good and dead—a trench-like no man’s land daring pedestrians to slog through. Contempt for the city fabric.
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Even before the shopping center at Hudson Yards went under, the entire project turned it’s back on the city–faces inward along the walking areas south of the subway entrance. It was designed as it’s own enclave. Maybe those in charge simply wanted to exclude the city from a “privileged” zone. If so, that goal succeeded, but at the expense of the city’s fabric.
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The shopping center never “went under”. Related bought the Neiman Marcus space back, and sold it to Wells Fargo. The retail center is still there. It’s likely the largest and most successful indoor mall in Manhattan.
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I hope they rethink the red in their logo on the façade. It would be in keeping with the complex if they kept it in silver tones.
Thanks Crawdad. I thot the demise of the Neiman Marcus had doomed the mall.
the entire project turned it’s back on the city–faces inward along the walking areas south of the subway entrance. It was designed as it’s own enclave. Maybe those in charge simply wanted to exclude the city from a “privileged” zone. If so, that goal succeeded, but at the expense of the city’s fabric.
Reads like a review of the World Trade Center from the '70s…
…which, while iconic, was also anti-pedestrian and disruptive of the street grid/urban fabric of lower Manhattan.
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No, no it didn’t even if we believe that nonsense was its goal.
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