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Let's talk about NYC's horrific tendency to sacrifice its historical heritage and globally unique flair due to careless investors pulling up soulless modernist buildings, with the Landmark Preservation Commission keeping blind to it.
Please add more examples and join the controversial discussion!
The honor of being the thread opener goes to:
432-Park-Tower!
It's screwing up the whole skyline of Midtown Manhattan. And as if that wouldn't be enough, a whole intact block with a historical highrise and neat townhouses was torn down for this abomination. While they could easily have been integrated into the complex, as happened at so many other places. I'll introduce them after showing some visualizations...
432 Park is the long drawn-out, badly proportioned, concrete facade stalk to the left here... :no:
by SSC User sbarn
If, apart from the failed proportion of width and length, they'd have come up with a more interesting facade, features, setbacks, a NYC-worthy crown, etc... BUT THIS! *insert facepalm here*
http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/screen-shot-2012-06-05-at-8-43-45-am.png?w=900
http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/140203164/original.jpg
http://www.sgacquisitions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/432_park_1024.jpg
And these intact, vital, original Manhattan gems were all torn down for this ^ monstrous madness!
Goodbye Drake Hotel and neat townhouses, welcome greed and ugliness!
:cripes:
The news that 432 Park is going to have a concrete facade at that height is just frightening.
I told you how this thing will be horrible by any means. Now it's not only the proportions, but also an ill-bred cladding! I've never seen any good modernist tower featuring an exposed concrete facade.
And they've torn a beautiful ensemble with Drake hotel and historical townhouses for it!
I'm getting really mad at NYC. And what they're doing to their heritage that is global architectural heritage, too! :no:
Please add more examples and join the controversial discussion!
The honor of being the thread opener goes to:
432-Park-Tower!
It's screwing up the whole skyline of Midtown Manhattan. And as if that wouldn't be enough, a whole intact block with a historical highrise and neat townhouses was torn down for this abomination. While they could easily have been integrated into the complex, as happened at so many other places. I'll introduce them after showing some visualizations...
432 Park is the long drawn-out, badly proportioned, concrete facade stalk to the left here... :no:

by SSC User sbarn
If, apart from the failed proportion of width and length, they'd have come up with a more interesting facade, features, setbacks, a NYC-worthy crown, etc... BUT THIS! *insert facepalm here*

http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/screen-shot-2012-06-05-at-8-43-45-am.png?w=900

http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/140203164/original.jpg

http://www.sgacquisitions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/432_park_1024.jpg
And these intact, vital, original Manhattan gems were all torn down for this ^ monstrous madness!
Goodbye Drake Hotel and neat townhouses, welcome greed and ugliness!
This building will occupy the place of the now demolished Drake Hotel (built 1926). Some other small,and quite pretty buildings were demolished as well. A big loss if you ask me.hno:
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http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON062.htm
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Source:Wired New York
:cripes:
The news that 432 Park is going to have a concrete facade at that height is just frightening.
I told you how this thing will be horrible by any means. Now it's not only the proportions, but also an ill-bred cladding! I've never seen any good modernist tower featuring an exposed concrete facade.
And they've torn a beautiful ensemble with Drake hotel and historical townhouses for it!
I'm getting really mad at NYC. And what they're doing to their heritage that is global architectural heritage, too! :no: