This particular architectural and development era – at least in Manhattan – will unquestionably be associated with the supertall condos being built for the world’s billionaires, especially along 57th Street.
Here is what one of them looks like from the east side looking west:
Here is what one of them looks like from the east side looking west:
I truly fear Vancouver is heading into its own version of this. If not super tall then super weird – and dense.
I honestly don’t understand this fear. What is wrong with super tall and super weird – and dense? You build up, you build out, or you put up a big fence and tell everyone to just go away because you don’t want others to have what you have. Which do you propose?
Yes, let’s she’d a tear for the poor downtrodden multimillionaire who might be denied a chance for their third pied a terre if we don’t allow supertall showplaces.?
Better off the land be used for more affordable, if less showy housing.
I agree. That is a better use. But why care if it’s “showy” or not? The poor and middle class can’t live in ‘showy’ buildings? Nothing but Soviet cubes for them? And why “fear” over these types of buildings?
Showy generally costs money, to buy and maintain. As a proudly middle class person I would rather have a solid, well built building than a twisting, turning box-ridden starchitect project.
At least theirs don’t all look the same with green glass and concrete
Of interest:
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/commercial-real-estate/silverstein-backs-away-from-tallest-residential-tower-51314