NEW YORK I Wall Street Tower (130 William St) I 800 FT I 61 FLOORS

The facade looks great and will weather well after time. The deep arched windows have a sculptural look from the outside; but will also have the added ‘eyebrow’ affect when looking out from the interior apartments. If you have ever been inside any of those I.M.PEI concrete buildings with the deep set windows; you can see the difference from looking out from standard flat outer surface windows. The deep-set windows reduces the glare from the sun that slightly obscures the views on standard type surface windows: I think I.M. Pei coined the term ‘eyebrow affect’. This architectural design hits all the right notes in both form and function, one of my favorites. You can see the shading/shadow affect on the buildings near NYU designed by I.M. Pei - Silver Towers. silvertowers1

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Derrick crane up there, crane coming down

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Kind of plain from a distance.

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Yeah I was hoping for better detailing along the windows. It looks kinda like a tombstone from afar…

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I was expecting the same, a bit more detail.

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There is ‘curbside appeal’ and then there is ‘skyline appeal’ depending on the vantage point of the viewer: this building is a bit plain looking from the ‘skyline’ perspective. However, I find this facade - and the overall architectural design - to have great ‘curbside’ appeal. When one gets up close and personal with this condo building it has plenty of good looks and personality. This is one of the finest high rise condo building designs in NYC; a quality that will serve the developer well in this now highly competitive luxury condo market.

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You couldn’t have said it any better.

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What @infoshare said about the curb appeal is so true. In daytime, from distance, this building will not look beautiful…However, I hold out hope that it will look pretty special at night - We should be able to see the interior illumination from those huge, curved windows which are quite unique.

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I’m liking this building less.

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Same. I thought that a more decorative facade would be awesome but from far away this looks pretty bad to me. From up close it looks depressing though decent but from everywhere else it has the blockiness of 19 Dutch and the roughness of Southbridge Towers, neither of which are a pleasant thing to look at.

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Hideous. :face_vomiting::face_vomiting:

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I like it a lot. A welcome change from the usual blue glass.

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