i’d probably knock down 200 Park/ Metlife for a legit megatall.
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Ohhh thats a good one. It would look great from park Ave
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Maybe Home Insurance Plaza. Dead heart of downtown.
If not I agree with Metlife in midtown since literally anything less dry could go there.
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The reason I choose the ones I did is because they have a park in front of them.
I feel like if you’re gonna have a world class Mega Tall you need a place where people can stand back and look up. MetLife might be too cramped for a mega tall.
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Knock down 2 Penn Plaza and build a megatall there.
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I think the best spot imo for a supertall/megatall would be somewhere in Hudson Yards
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To that point, how about this block (5th Ave between 57th and 58th), with a shiny new home for Bergdorf, LV, etc. in the base?
Yes a megatall here would cast a shadow across Central Park in the winter, but it’s set back by two blocks, and completely unobstructed — the only thing standing between that block and the park is the Pulitzer Fountain plaza.
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I would rather see the building directly across from the plaza torn down and replaced with a mega tall. But that’s a great location!!
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You mean the GM Building? That is probably the best location but I’m of the (unpopular) opinion that it’s kind of cool. Certainly a significant part of NYC’s midcentury architectural history. But then again, since it replaced the gorgeous Savoy hotel…
…it would maybe be appropriate if it too gave way to a much larger, iconic tower.
(photo from the Wiki Commons)
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Yea, that little corner is too perfect for a mega tall (especially with billionaires row being built) to offset it to the side a bit. IDK that’s just my opinion.
Im typically not a fan of midcentury architecture but the GM building as well as the curved black one are a couple of the ones I’m cool with.
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U.S.S. New Jersey in New York 1948
U.S.S. Colorado in Harbor from new York mid. 1930s
The german submarine U 505 after captured 1944
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Anyone know what the building in the foreground is?
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Why do those old second empire buildings always look good in illustrations but look terrible in pictures? They made those roofs farrrr to big IMO.
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haha, the roofs make sense when top hats were required items.
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1965: Notice the newly completed brutal Home Insurance Plaza tower. Adjacent can be seen the steel frame of the 1932 Home Insurance Building as it is partly demolished
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Empire State Building, New York City by Joseph Hollick, on Flickr
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I have time to read a new book.
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