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They had the office tower down. Should have used their time to make the residential into something nice.
Hope Marty just says no.
Why not 'carve out' the bump out and 'reveal' the same facade pattern as the rest of the tower
Is this really designed by Gensler? Because this is literally the opposite of what Gensler usually designs.
I'm no architect, but doesn't it say something bad about the effort that went into this building that when complaints were made about the design and the response was to move around pieces of the façade like it were a Mr. Potato Head?
With Winthrop Square, it looks like there was some real thought that went into the changes...even in the universally-panned design that was mercifully abandoned. With this, it feels like a guy was standing at the front of the room with a model of the building and said "Don't like this one, huh? Ok...well...**moves in front of the model, blocking it from view, and frantically starts moving pieces around**...how...about........this?!"
Just want to put this in perspective: doing a full redesign like 115 Winthrop is expensive (both in design and production of documents) and significantly delays the schedule (which comes back to expensive because time = money). I can understand why they're trying to hang on with this scheme by grasping at straws, but it's really not a scheme worth holding onto and hopefully the BCDC gets them to see this. They have to get this right, especially if they want this to be a "gateway" to the City.
It's like a restaurant kitchen getting a meal sent back because it's undercooked and overseasoned, so they just replate it a little differently and send it back out.
There's now new garnish on the potatoes but the chicken is still raw and salty.
....and they didn't hock a new lunger into the dish this time, because they already did with the previous iteration.
The scale of the Hudson Yards project is highly impressive, and the buildings are decent enough, but they are all soulless boring glass towers.