Today. Nice day for paddle boarding down the Hudson.
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Great angle for 1 Vanderbilt. Makes it look like Metlife is a pedestal for it.
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Crazy how long the facade is taking
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I might be wrong, but I think this is slowed/suspended because of rona. Although it will be starting up next week(!)
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Theyâve been working on the facade for over a year and theyâre not close to done it seems. itâs not a huge building
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the developers also have ties to the mafia, so dirty money may be involved. 
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The Israeli and Russian mob is a big problem in NY.
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Beyond that, this building complex is not selling well so they just donât have the cash to speed things up.
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Maybe, just maybe people are not rushing to live in a building that looks like it will fall over.
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Aside from the Twin Towers reference the geometry of this building up close and in person kinda makes me queasy. Something alien in its design and I canât explain it. The proportions from ground level are awkward.
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I had great hopes for these buildings so all this is sad for me.
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I agree, though I think the vertical scaffolding lines during construction are what makes it so uneasy on the eyes, as you can tell something is âoffâ. I hope once itâs complete that it will look more elegant
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Never particularly liked these buildings. Maybe my angst comes from two characteristics of the design. First, the facingâs discontinuity comes off as somewhat chaotic and uncomfortable. And second, the design has nothing in it to counteract either the perceived tilt or the discontinuity. There is nothing to bring our eyes to something like a normal perspective. So it just comes off as unbalanced and disjointed. Much contemporary art has similar features but the best of it typically gets ours eyes to move around rather than just tip over. Itâs another case where fancy engineering to create a first cousin to cantilevers fails to take design coherence into account.
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The moral of this story is donât hire an architect that does a lot of acid!
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LOL. Maybe s/he should have taken more.
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The problem here is that this style does not work well for relatively short towers like these. There are examples of taller towers with twisting forms that look awesome.
As a starchitect, he should know that.
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Also from most angles it doesnât even really look twisty, moreso just slanty and leaning, which is just not that visually appealing.
Also the color of the glass doesnât fit, should have been a much light color.
Overall itâs quite decent imo and it definitely elicits a reaction and commentary from anyone who lays eyes on it. Everyone stops to look up in awe (bad and good). Iâll reserve final judgement when the cladding is done and the scaffolding removed as this is a building that really needs to be seen with clean lines to be appreciated.
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