@Mackensen I made this quick little overlay to show you where that old proposal was from one of your previous posts. The main building would’ve mainly taken up the footprints of, as I mentioned before, Foley Square, but also the NY County Supreme Court building, The Health Building, and The State Office Building. The park in the back would’ve taken up half of the Criminal Courts Building.
I also added blue lines to represent the streets that do still exists and as you can see, the Civic Center and its buildings really obliterated some of them.
was also a better design than the one we got imo. From what I can gather the blame lays entirely on the FAA for a determination of hazard to very specific situational air traffic that will never occur.
Sven was also supposed to be a 900 footer with a more NY-ish design.
LEESER Architecture was engaged to develop a vision for the 1.2 million sf addition on the Macy’s parcels in Downtown Brooklyn. The design features a 910 feet tall tower, and two 390 feet tall high-rises, incorporating residential functions, a commercial base of retail, and a public plaza. The iconic tower will house 230 condos and 468 rental units and is added on-top of an existing building, while preserving its Art-Deco facade. The structural design and phasing is conceived in a way that it would allow Macy’s to remain open during constructions.
A two tower mixed-use complex, designed on the opposite site of the block, provides 200,000 sf retail spaces, a public plaza, 248 condo units and 308 rental units.
„ The design by schneider+schumacher impresses on the one hand with the relocation of the elevators into a transparent connecting structure between the two skyscrapers: The glazed joint, which extends to a height of 333 meters, makes it possible to develop a common, urban lobby with bars, restaurants and stores from the 40th to 43rd floors with comparatively little effort from the separately conceived sky lobbies for offices and hotels.“
ultimately, what we ended up getting is very close to Memorial Plaza
the charade with the second competition and Liebeskin’s so call “master plan” was just to mollify the outraged public but build the plan the developers wanted from the very beginning
