Gothamist: Sky Gardens Coming to Madison Ave?

NannyState

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:28:39 -0500

I hear David Childs has hijacked the project and will instead build an eight story blast shield surmounted with a grotesque slope-sided tower topped by a huge antenna and not so much as a sprig of parsley in sight.

Spiritof76

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:45:23 -0500

[1] They can't. Not anymore. Once upon a time, but they took out the excess elevator banks in a renovation back in the 90s, so there wouldn't be enough elevators if they tried to turn it into a full skyscraper.

InnaJungleStylee

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:55:59 -0500

And by "Met Life tower" I take it you mean Pan Am Building? No, but thanks for playing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Met_Life_Tower Your NYC cred attempt has left you looking quite the fool.

wcoastpark

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:16:30 -0500

Notwithstanding the individual architectural merits of this building, I'm worried that its addition will unduly crowd the skyline at madison square park. You already have Koolhaas' building being built a block south, the almost completed slim One Madison Square Park, the Metropolitan Life building clock tower and the Flatiron building. Cramming Libeskind's tower in seems to be too much.

Wza

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:15:22 -0500

Not. Gonna. Happen. :D

r1b2

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:56:31 -0500

Thank you, Jen, for including the Curbed comment. This is just another example of how there is a very real boundary that separates the lives of the very rich in NYC from the rest of us. It's bread and circuses; we get to look up and say "ooh, ahh," as do the tour buses full of Iowans, whilst the very rich get to live in it. As long as you've still got a job, there's a certain very real schadenfreude in watching the banking biggies get spanked by the market meltdown. Now, some of them won't be able to buy into Libeskind's folly.

MT

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:51:16 -0500

And I'm guessing you don't mean the Pan Am building, but rather the original Met Life tower that is right next door to the proposed site for this tower . . .

MT

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:49:03 -0500

I honestly love the concept, but wouldn't the wind rip that thing apart? I can't imagine it's feasible. Any engineers here?

Toby von Meistersinger

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:24:18 -0500

It looks horrible. And by "Met Life tower" I take it you mean Pan Am Building?

matty

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:05:04 -0500

won't happen

mocanlagunas

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:59:44 -0500

It will NEVER be built here...

SP

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:46:21 -0500

Kinda reminds me of the hanging gardens of Babylon.

nycgrid

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:43:18 -0500

They should scrap this and try to finish the original design for 11 Madison Avenue.