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| DATE | 2015-08-05 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] All that is wrong with NYC now
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On 08/05/2015 02:21 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 08/05/2015 02:19 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/432_Park_Avenue
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>> What is WRONG with NYC now...
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>> designed by Rafael Viñoly
>> around what is
>> described as "the purest geometric form: the square" and inspired by a
>> trash can,^[14]
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>> Great maybe Oscar the Grouch will move it...
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>>
>> ummmm Rafie, the purest geometric shape is the SPHERE.... whatever.
>>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One57
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> On the evening of March 15, 2014, a fire broke out in the loading dock
> of One57, spreading into the courtyard behind the building and then onto
> the adjacent property at 152 West 58th Street, which had to be
> evacuated.^[33]
> Neither Extell nor Lend Lease has ever offered any explanation of the
> fire, and the NYC Dept. of Buildings refused to issue even a partial
> Stop Work order following the fire. The cause of the fire remains a
> mystery.^[34]
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One57 was named "Worst Building of the Year" in 2014 by Curbed.com:
"Pretty much everyone (or at least most archicritics) agrees that its
wavy blue facade is ugly. Justin Davidson of New York Magazine called it
'clumsily gaudy.' James Russell, formerly of Bloomberg ... lamented the
'endless acres of cheap-looking frameless glass in cartoonish stripes
and blotches of silver and pewter.' Michael Kimmelman of the Times had
similarly harsh words: "[The building] unravels as a cascade of clunky
curves ... chintzily embellished, clad in acres of eye-shadow-blue glass
offset by a pox of tinted panes, like age spots.'"^[37]
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