When did NYC start looking so futuristic?
When did NYC start looking so futuristic?
Jonathan Reyes
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Josiah Perez
In the,last 5 years.
It looks like Blade Runner Esque
Thomas Flores
I hate these pencil dick glass towers they're building everywhere now.
John Wright
I sent death threats to the architect of this piece of shit building
Charles Butler
what did you tell them?
Eli Lopez
Man I remember when I was reading about all these towers that would be built by 2020, and it seemed so far away. And now it's already been five years and they're all almost finished
James Wright
Doesn't even look like NYC anymore. Looks like shit.
Ian Evans
Henry Garcia
Can't remember exactly, it was like 2 years ago and I don't have facebook anymore
Parker Evans
Looks like shit.
Leo Miller
Why? German austimo?
Camden Parker
New York has always been changing. Stuff like Metlife and the Seagram building which started the rectangular glass box menace had just as much of an impact
David Jackson
looks cool
Juan Hernandez
Brody Anderson
New York is a shithole unless you're rich.
Leo Fisher
It's incredibly ugly, ruins the entire skyline imo. It's unironically modeled after a trashcan
Aaron Hughes
Except current technology allows them to build super tall thin building and since land on Manhattan is ridiculously expensive you see all these small lots turned into awful glass pencil cocks towering over the city.
Ayden Torres
where was this pic taken from?
Aaron Wilson
I don't understand what is wrong with slim towers, or height differences. The Solow building was also incredibly out of place and way taller than the stuff around it when they first built it in the 70s, but then everyone started building these thick boxes. Now it's just the same thing happening again, except with thinner and taller buildings
Elijah Sanchez
Those two are masterpieces compared to the ugly slim tower they're building now.
Owen Morales
I don't know, I don't even remember where I got it from. I think it's from the New Jersey side
Liam Cox
John Smith
They resorted to plopping a big red number 9 on the sidewalk in front of the Solow building, to distract people from the actual tower, because the curved surface reflects the other buildings really badly
Kevin Brown
I meant the metlife and seagram buildings, solow doesn't look good.
Daniel Foster
Seagram is just a black box and totally interchangeable with the other similar towers they built after it. It's really only notable because it was the first
Isaac Ward
I like it.
Joshua Diaz
soon. end times are here
David Sanchez
at this rate in 20 years, it will look on par with an average Chinese city right now.
Leo Price
Before
It's a bit ironic though, it was meant to have the structural beams exposed to emphasize that it has no decorations. But they couldn't do that so those beams are just for decoration
Aiden Wright
Aren't tall buildings built in a straight rectangle shape disfunctional? Like they bend with the air and earthquakes can destroy them easily?
Carter Johnson
Is this Warsowzawawzwzwzawza ?
Lucas Butler
Chinese cities are just identical apartment buildings and then a handful of unique towers with a huge park around them, here is the Shanghai CBD
Luis Adams
is that supposed to be a bad thing
Adam Jones
What's up with the 2 levels every 12 that look like in a different color? Are those used as the stabilizer levels?
Dominic Campbell
Asian cities are depressing as sin so yes
Jace Gomez
That's Warsaw.
Julian Parker
That's my least favorite too, excellent taste.
Isaac Green
Probably mechanical floors. AC units, water systems, all kind of stuff goes there.
Aaron Hernandez
I don't find it ugly. The skyline of NYC is soulfull and gorgeous.
Gabriel Perez
Jersey City.
Gabriel Collins
Rude
Mason Rogers
I think they're open office floors (no walls). See how lights go through them?
Jordan Cox
I love the rubik's cube building, lay off of it Hans
Christopher Cook
Yes, they're mechanical floors and they have no windows so that the wind can flow through them
Christian Bailey
Classicism in architecture is so cringe, and most Yas Forumstards fawning over it have zero knowledge of design nor history so they think tacky, gaudy Frankenstein’s Manors are not only beautiful, but “traditional”.
Parker Smith
Based. Fuck kitschs.
Joseph Myers
Did you know the developer who built that is building a larger one?
William Sanders
is it true most apartments in this building are empty
Brandon Richardson
Wouldn't be surprising
Andrew Phillips
They probably spend very little time in those apartments. For most of the owners it's just a good way to store your money. Kinda like modern art actually, you buy weird paintings for ridiculous prices and then you can move your money around without anybody noticing
Nolan Richardson
yes, people use them for money laundering, people do live in them, but most apartments are empty. This is very obvious at night, when maybe a few lights are on
David Cooper
Probably kinda true
theatlantic.com
>Approximately half of the luxury-condo units that have come onto the market in the past five years are still unsold.
So many of them are not even getting sold, and few of them are just used as investments.
Jose Ross
At least the top penthouses are used...
Oliver Taylor
Juan Torres
Alexander Martin
Burgerpunk is coming closer to reality
Jeremiah Wright
Brandon Flores
shiny
Evan Myers
I think this is one of the nicest ones going up, and of all places it's in Brooklyn
Leo Martinez
btw if youre in nyc dont go up in the 1WTC, it's a sham
Kevin Gomez
San Francisco is starting to become sci-fi too
Angel Taylor
Edge > Top of The Rock > ESB Observatory >>>>>> One World Observatory
Adam Gomez
needs more big bois
Jackson Martin
Yeah, this one doesn't look to bad for a glass pencil dick.
Ryan Ortiz
Why do modern skyscrapers make such heavy use of glass, instead of bricks like older ones do?
Ethan Hernandez
idk what the edge and top of the rock is but ESB is nice
Nathan Hill
edge is a new Observatory, it just opened last week
TOTR is the Rockefeller center observatory
Henry Ortiz
Warsaw looks like that?!
Jacob Thomas
Glass lets in lots of light which is optimal for offices. Large glass windows + Tall ceilings = higher commercial rents
Levi Ward
>The taller the building the more likely no one actually goes in there
Andrew Hernandez
Kayden Morales
seriously though, what do they expect to accomplish with this?
to have every multimillionaire in the entire world have en extra apartment in NYC?
Julian Wilson
425 Park Ave, Compared with the empire state building, which has cheaper rents, and feels more cramped inside
Robert Thompson
The city: get money for selling the land and air rights
The developers: get money for selling the apartments
The buyers: hopefully get money when you sell the apartment in the future
Gavin Gutierrez
>The developers: get money for selling the apartments
But 50% of new apartments are already empty. People aren't even buying the already existing apartments, how will they buy all the new ones that are being built?