Recent content by daptive

It's funny how NYC's setback laws shaped their skyline to have tiered buildings and our heritage laws led to us having buildings teetering on their tippy toes. I've alway enjoyed learning about laws affecting architectural forms.

Imagine if the height increases were approved back in the day, two Gehry supertalls side-by-side, though even without the height increase both towers will be his first and second tallest. I also think the West tower included a hotel portion which was axed, perhaps that'll make a comeback in the...

I hope that isn't a reply to my comment. I love the idea of Aaniin, I just wish they had a more complete space to showcase their products.

I think even for a pop up that's extremely rough. The SHEIN pop-up at least had fixtures from Banana Republic. Pretty sure The Collectors Vault in the photos is also temporary.

Had to double take at the Benazir restaurant sign from this angle 😬

Yep it used to be The Score but now the studio space is an Anytime Fitness.

I spy with my little eye:

A view from above, parts of the roof has also been removed

Sorry for perhaps the longest useless bumps of all bumps, but can someone smarter than me tell me if this Zoning Review I stumbled upon is relevant in any way or if it’s discussed somewhere else? It was submitted to the city July this year

I’m surprised at how small tuned mass dampeners can be! I just have the image of Taipei 101’s TMD engrained in my head I guess. But you’re telling me that little box can help offset 300m+ of sway!

Time for someone to dig up the old old old concept renders of the underground platforms at Union. I’d try to do it myself, but UT’s search and image browsing is abysmal.

Well, nice to see catenaries in the renders at least, I guess fully electrification of the USRC including the shed isn’t completely out of the question.

Banks and phone stores… how do we have so many of them, and who is actually going in to them frequently enough!

I fear, outside of some initial “wow the facade is so unique”, a lot of the press will be around how these investor units that were sold during the high times are unliveable in reality. Perhaps Great Gulf will pivot strategies for the West tower and market it accordingly, but the public...

Don’t get me wrong, I love this tower, probably top 3 in the city.. but all I can see now is a top down view of a centipede