Haha I mean I like both aspects of this building’s profile. I appreciate its beauty when it reflects sunlight but also love its brooding personality. I see the Barad-dûr references and to me I see this monolith of power in its form, something befitting Brooklyn/Kings County. Something captivating about it, just like the One Ring.
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Right, but it this building has twin personalities. Most people consign it solely to an almost monomaniacal brooding tower of evil, which it is not.
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Channeling a bit of Hopper with this one
He’s the best. That show at the Whitney last year was great. His notebooks & sketches were surprisingly extensive
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Yes I saw things there that I had not even seen in books.
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Great news!
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Yes. He runs a tight ship.
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The lighting looks great!
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Ultra Gotham.
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Nathan - (the instagram posted above by Mackensen) got one of the best Brooklyn Tower photos I have seen thus far: that NIGHT shot is AMAZING… 
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I am still a bit surprised about the foreclosure news on what is truly an ICONIC work of Architecture.
The following headlines are just a few of many I have seen regarding recent developments at the Brooklyn Tower project: The “Evil Tower” is in Foreclosure. The “Tower of Sauron” can’t pay its debt.
Permit me this sarcastic musical tribute to all the doomsayers: great lyrics, fantastic video - great song.
It’s the end of the world As We Know It (And I feel fine)
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It doesn’t matter how pretty a building is. If it gets built at the wrong time in an economic cycle, this can happen.
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So true my friend…
Fun fact -
Many years ago I worked at a small Architectural Firm in Soho. The guy who sat at the drafting table next to me often played that 'end of the world’ song by REM - I could hear the faint lyrics emanating from his ear buds… 
This is another of his favorites that I heard most often-
You know where that guy is today? Let’s just say he is the P in ShoP….
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