An interesting failure is to be preferred than the bland that most buildings are today.
Huge phots and designs can be found here
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/12/17/mark_foster_gage_s_newest_skyscraper_design_is_an_extravagant_ode_to_gothic.html
QuoteThis NYC Skyscraper's Over-the-Top Gothic Design Looks Like Something Out of a Video Game
By Kristin Hohenadel
New York City's West 57th Street is becoming a booming forest of tall, skinny skyscrapers that soar above Central Park with a nearly indistinguishable blandness.
Mark Foster Gage is having none of it. The New York City–based architect has designed an extravagant skyscraper for a mystery client (whose name the architect is withholding per the client's request) that borrows from the Gothic flourishes of architectural monuments past.
The 1,492-foot-tall, 102-story concrete-framed skyscraper at 41 West 57th St. would contain 91 residential units, with a sky lobby, retail space, four-star restaurant, and ballroom on the 64th floor. Its façade would be covered with limestone-tinted panels, bronze, and brass, according to a project description, and each unit would have "its own unique figurally carved façade."
Gage said in a project description that many of the ultra-high-rise buildings going up in New York City are "tall boxes" that are "virtually free of architectural design." His proposed luxury skyscraper "would aesthetically add to the city," he said, "rather than merely occupy a place in it." He added: "People, in particular wealthy people, are beginning again to seek actual uniqueness, even beauty, rather than just allowing their residences to be generic real estate equations in the sky."
Gage said that his design is a stylistic rebuttal to the "glass or steel modernist box[es]" whose 20th-century aesthetic dominates the New York skyline. But to the naked eye, renderings of the ornamental flourishes on the façade—which seem all the more over the top given the building's astonishing height—recall a video game designer's interpretation of the kind of Gothic excess associated with Paris' Notre Dame or the Chartres Cathedral, not a visionary new silhouette to redefine the future of the world's most celebrated skyline.
Nevertheless, if the building is constructed, no stonemasons will be harmed in its making. Gage, who is also assistant dean and associate professor at the Yale School of Architecture, has conducted research on robotic stone carving and claims that technology could execute intricate work that might have taken artisans decades in the past.
Check out the video below for a slow scroll from bottom to top of the proposed design:
Slate needs your financial help Timmy! :o
Ivo Shandor back in business?
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 27, 2015, 11:08:09 PM
What are you going on about?
When I clicked your link to look at that monstrosity of a building Slate begged me for a donation.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 27, 2015, 11:10:11 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 27, 2015, 11:08:09 PM
What are you going on about?
When I clicked your link to look at that monstrosity of a building Slate begged me for a donation.
Oh.
Didn't ask me for money.
I like it.
New bland buildings in NYC are fine. Manhattan has enough character.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 27, 2015, 11:10:11 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 27, 2015, 11:08:09 PM
What are you going on about?
When I clicked your link to look at that monstrosity of a building Slate begged me for a donation.
Slate has now put a 5 link per month limit on international viewers (unless you pay some sort of subscription). <_<
Of course between multiple devices, and privacy modes, there's no reason to pay, but it's still annoying.
Massive Attack :cool:
I love Ghostbusters.
I agree with the sentiment that there needs to be a bit more daring, but stealing building designs from rejected Uwe Boll movie sets is not the solution.
QuoteHe added: "People, in particular wealthy people, are beginning again to seek actual uniqueness, even beauty, rather than just allowing their residences to be generic real estate equations in the sky."
What's wrong with equations? :mad:
QuoteNevertheless, if the building is constructed, no stonemasons will be harmed in its making. Gage, who is also assistant dean and associate professor at the Yale School of Architecture, has conducted research on robotic stone carving and claims that technology could execute intricate work that might have taken artisans decades in the past.
:hmm: Wouldn't you need some equations for that?
What a shame it's hideous. It's still just a cube, so it's your typical Skyscraper as a phallic symbol, with the added bonus of every Gothic element he thought he could fit on a square wall greebled on as some kind of skyline-breaking condom. Oh, and nobody issuing building permits with any hint of sanity should approve that sky deck- each apron is like a little spout, just waiting to pour suicide jumpers and the terminally stupid all over Manhattan.
Quote from: DontSayBanana on December 30, 2015, 10:13:28 AM
some kind of skyline-breaking condom
:hmm: That doesn't look like a very comfortable condom.
Quote from: DGuller on December 30, 2015, 10:35:13 AM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on December 30, 2015, 10:13:28 AM
some kind of skyline-breaking condom
:hmm: That doesn't look like a very comfortable condom.
For
her pleasure. :rolleyes:
Quote from: DGuller on December 30, 2015, 10:35:13 AM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on December 30, 2015, 10:13:28 AM
some kind of skyline-breaking condom
:hmm: That doesn't look like a very comfortable condom.
I didn't say it was a
good condom.
In all seriousness, he complains there's too many cubes, so he makes another cube and sticks a ton of shit all over it. Freedom Tower is more interesting visually than this vomit.
Woah, that thing is hideous. It's like a discarded set from a Michael Bay Transformers flick after some ADD-addled architect mixed up his meds.
I went to the architect's website, and this was his entry for the Helsinki Guggenheim museum design contest (which unsurprisingly he didn't win).
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suckerpunchdaily.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F02%2F20150214_mark_foster_gage_001_front.jpg&hash=78efdc7fd3e5919d2ae8bc7da41070dbc885d115)
:bleeding:
L.
Quote from: celedhring on December 30, 2015, 11:38:12 AM
I went to the architect's website, and this was his entry for the Helsinki Guggenheim museum design contest (which unsurprisingly he didn't win).
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suckerpunchdaily.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F02%2F20150214_mark_foster_gage_001_front.jpg&hash=78efdc7fd3e5919d2ae8bc7da41070dbc885d115)
:lmfao: Holy crap, that thing is ridiculous.
Weren't they supposed to teach him that "less is more" at architectural school? I guess that lesson never took.
That dude is definitely channeling Gozer.
What the hell is that????
The new HQs of the People's Daily newspaper in Beijing.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi62.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fh101%2FMonoriu%2FPeoples%2520Daily_zpswffwzxue.jpg&hash=8c55c9640e96d01401f69eb6919704b378452e6c) (http://s62.photobucket.com/user/Monoriu/media/Peoples%20Daily_zpswffwzxue.jpg.html)
Um...that's a penis.
Quote from: celedhring on December 30, 2015, 11:38:12 AM
I went to the architect's website, and this was his entry for the Helsinki Guggenheim museum design contest (which unsurprisingly he didn't win).
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suckerpunchdaily.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F02%2F20150214_mark_foster_gage_001_front.jpg&hash=78efdc7fd3e5919d2ae8bc7da41070dbc885d115)
Looks like it's about to start eating the *other* buildings nearby. :lol:
If that thing ever got build I'd actually consider going back to Helsinki though. :hmm:
So than it being Slate, any reason this guy gets 'coverage'?
91 residential spaces in a 102 story skyscraper.
I cannot even imagine what the going rate for each of those must be to make this a viable economic venture.
Quote from: Berkut on December 31, 2015, 11:25:50 AM
91 residential spaces in a 102 story skyscraper.
I cannot even imagine what the going rate for each of those must be to make this a viable economic venture.
When you are establishing your evil villainous lair for the final level no expense should be spared.