The faceted glass is going to look great during “golden hour”. The evening light on the west side is the best in the city. This tower will take full advantage of that.
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i wonder if the faceted glass will go all the way to the top of the tower…it would be really nice
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At least that strip of prismatic glass brings a bit of pizzazz.
Really wish they hadn’t changed the overall form of this building
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The diagrams from the structural peer review definitely shows the original spiral design, you can tell by the more complex spiral transitions up from the hotel section and out to the observation deck, as well as the ‘corrugated’ floor plates on the observation floors.
In contrast, the current design is a flat roof slab leading to the neck, and two completely flat transfer slabs out to the observation levels. As Arik pointed out, flat cantilevered slabs are really nothing special for a concrete core building. The corrugated floor slabs are completely gone apart from a couple of vestigial pods at the two northern corners. Apart from the potential night lighting, there’s absolutely nothing redeemable about the current design.
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I think it’s sort of odd that they even considered leaving some of the random semicircle, rectangular, and triangular little punchouts at the top, they look oddly/sparsely placed on 2 corners.
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This could’ve been an absolute banger of a building, with the prismatic glass spiraling up. A true icon! But they cheapened out unfortunately
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The “Wrench” 
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“That’s really cool. Now, could you do, like, the same thing, except make it super lame instead.”
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“Nice design. Now draw it from memory”
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Have we come to terms yet with the fact that this will be one of the most visible things from the west side of Manhattan
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This is only the 2nd time I’d actually seen this thing with my own eyes, but this time I was actually up close to it. While I still don’t like the design, this is much much better when its not cloudy, otherwise the metal panel portions of cladding look blah.
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Perhaps a dumb comment/question, but are those axon diagrams that the dept posts always completely accurate to the overall? I have a vague recollection of these getting dumbed-down for the sake of the drawing’s main compliance hard-points (roof heights, mech locations, etc). Maybe the corrugation and tapering will show up once it gets to those floors?
Agreed this would be an insane downgrade. I’m just sort of incredulous that it would actually be downgraded that much.
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Fantastic.
Any city in the first world would be going ga ga over receiving a new 1,000 foot tower.
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