Wall-of-Glass skyscrapers

Fuck you.

^big, dammit

NY is so over!

They're completely unimaginative, boring and ugly.

They're always the exact same blue, no base/body/crown to break up the insulting monotony, and make you wonder how much an "architect" got paid for these non-designs.

I hate them.

2 million square feet of office space? In today's market, when most office workers are 100% work from home or some hybrid? When a lot of companies are trying to unload/sublet unnecessary office space?

Must be nice to have money to burn.

White elephants.

Everything in NYC is a fuck you to the man on the street??

Doesn't matter since no one inside those buildings is working. The gays are posting on DL from their cubicles.

Wall of Glass = Pain in the Ass

I saw an article about a reflective building in New York that melted part of a car. I guess London has one that is worse.

Once I had a city and it was a gas.

Soon turned out I had a wall of glass.

I say, "Tear down that bitch of a Wall-of-Glass skyscraper, and let's build 'em the way they ought to be."

They kill birds too

But they look like big thrusting wieners, so, gotta have em.

These new buildings are so ugly. I miss brick and stone buildings.

(^.^) and very impractical

R16 Do you spend all day going ^^^^^^^^^

No! R17 Actually less time per day than it would take to watch a single episode of Modern Family or anything else on the boob which I never waste time watching. I prefer posting.

Glass curtain wall buildings are like slim fit clothes for men: a cost-cutting measure marketed to the consumer/public as something state of the art.

Every time it rains they have to place sandbags around the doors of these two towers. Water pours down like a waterfall at the 33rd street entrance. Only reason to go to Hudson Yards is for the Whole Foods store.

I miss early-80s Brutalist-transitional architecture that was on the cusp of postmodern, without succumbing to Persian-tacky (for lack of a better adjective) mishmash. You know... dark-tinted glass, framed by the perfect fusion of red brick and smooth concrete, most often found in places like Florida & Atlanta... especially vast multi-floor interior atriums with helical stairs & catwalk-like walkways.

It still had Brutalism's playful raw energy and architectural honesty... without being soulless, dystopian, windowless, and ugly like most of the buildings normally associated with Brutalism in places like the northeastern US & Britain.

A few of these sprinkled amongst towers of varying ages and materials is nice, but when all new construction is this style it gets monotonous. You can’t tell where one building ends and the next on begins.

R21 We need an example of what you’re talking about.

Thank you, R19

These buildings make me nostalgic for the old AT&T building before Sony ruined it.

You know it's bad when you look back to the good old days of Mr. Nazi fraud guy.

Why would anyone build anything like that after 9.11?

Renderings of these buildings never show the glass as transparent. They always show them reflecting the sky. It’s as if they know how ugly they are when you can see into them.

R27, The World Trade Center has been rebuilt with glass sheet buildings. One of them (3) has some other elements, but they seem pasted on more than structural.

None of the glass towers have any of the beauty or grandeur or stateliness of the monumental buildings that preceded them. All the new architecture renders the city generic.

Glass walls on an office building are functionally equivalent to vinyl siding on a house and about as attractive too.

All of you get out of your basementsl. The towets are sublime.

r23, offhand, the downtown main library in Fort Lauderdale is a good example of what I'd call "Florida Post-Brutalism". Its northern side is mostly dark glass, with huge atrium-like interior & plants integrated into the building. It's extremely pleasant & filled with daylight.

IMHO, most of the UGLY, soul-crushing examples of Brutalism are buildings that fuse Brutalism with International style, plus a big scoop of dehumanizing Nazi giganticism.

In stark contrast, more "human-scale" Brutalism combined with lots of plants gives the feeling of "lushly-landscaped moonbase or space station"... kind of like an odd fusion of natural & synthetic. The name 'Brutalism' itself is unfortunate & prejudicial for English-speakers, because it suggests 'brutality'. In reality, the name has French roots, and (to French-speakers) suggests "simple honesty".

The truth is, even "godawful" Brutalist buildings can "clean up" nicely by giving them things like a "glass skirt" (to take away their often "top-heavy" appearance by visually establishing a size-appropriate foundation), creating new windows (or, in a pinch, adding some strategic mirrored glass that LOOKS like windows in the expected places), and breaking up monotonous expanses of concrete with plants, brick, slate, and colored stone... or even just some well-chosen concrete stain & polish.

I don’t want to be on display in home or office. This glass wall crap with no curtains. What is wrong with people?

[quote] Actually less time per day than it would take to watch a single episode of Modern Family or anything else on the boob which I never waste time watching.

I wish I lived where you could watch TV shows on boobs.

R33 I bet that interior smells like a Band-Aid.

Band aids and homeless

I still get my big fee with little creative effort!