Gothamist: Tishman Speyer Out in Front on Hudson Yards Bid

MT

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:30:29 -0500

At least this plan saves the High Line. That's a huge bonus.

Think twice

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:12:15 -0500

Why did the album include a photo of a rooftop garden at Rockefeller Center? Ironically, I just came back from The Skyscraper Museum and it's exhibit New York Modern which prominently featured Rockefeller Center and it's rooftop gardens

Toby von Meistersinger

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:52:36 -0500

The Long Island Rail Road's West Side Yard (ie. what is there now) looks much better than any of these!

Spiny

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:18:47 -0500

Well, maybe the sunlight is reflecting off the glass in all sorts of crazy angles... That, or Tishman Speyer is also planning to build a Death Star and put it in orbit around the earth.

dr zippy

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:56:52 -0500

why is the side of the Empire State Building facing us sunlit, when the sun is behind the building? Are they envisioning a two-sun solar system?

Spiny

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:39:26 -0500

Manhattan is becoming invisible! All the buildings are sky-colored! It's a bird, it's a plane...no! It's the reflection of both of those things on the side of a dehumanizing, violently ugly, transparent glass office tower and/or condo for the wealthy! What a contrast with the Empire State Building in the background. I do not understand why architects and developers want to make the city's skyline look like a corny 1940s cartoon depiction of the year 2000. Buildings of...the FUTURE! Let's all wear sparkly tin-foil spacesuits with huge shoulder pads while we roam through the proposed park with our pet robots. We'll fit right in with the surroundings. But more seriously, WHAT is that curvy, pointy thing on the right with the trees on it? It looks like it's covered in Braille.

nonumentalart

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:20:49 -0500

this looks horrible and seems to serve the wealthy...

SP

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:08:56 -0500

Yay! More glass boxes for rich people!

edgar

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:08:26 -0500

I wouldn't have expected any better from the MTA, literally. Choose the proposal that is the most architecturally uninspired, does the least to address NYC's housing crunch, and represents the worst in outmoded, inhuman 60's towers-in-a-park urban planning? Brilliant! This proposal has the least apartments of any of the proposals, and has huge squat blockbuster towers that look like they came out of the 80's. Look at the girth on those things. Horrible. That's the MTA for you. Always disappointing.