Ahh yes on that one balcony, good eye! So am I right in seeing that they are multi-toned?

this is a hot mess

Good spandrel, yes. I just find it hilarious that those two unit floor plans are exactly identical other than a 3sf difference in total area, and yet they are marketed under different names for some reason. Can't say I understand that...

This all feels a little suspect to me in a very intriguing way. I feel like there's a lot more under the table here that the media is just not privy to yet. IMO, like most of HdeM work, this proposal should be looked at as something of a farce that seeks to hold up a mirror to the politics...

The King East also has garbage and recycling chutes, as well as organics button sorters...

That's because the NYT building is a real, structural cross brace that's also expertly crafted with the help of Piano. I'm not sure trying to further fake gusset plates and pinned connections would've looked that great..

Agree that the south wall may seem sterile, but an elevation may not be the best image to capture the intent of what it'll feel like. In reality, each of those planes are set back about 3m from each other so you never read them as one flat mass. The depth and void space alone will make for an...

I think this building wins for Best Lush Landscape Foreground on UT

@mcornett has it right, lots of activity on site today. Crane take-down day, envelope finishing meeting (overheard), and sheathing installation on the underside of the soffit

Absolutely, it is bigger than typical. And the shrinkage isn't as substantial in this floor plan as it may be in others out there, but it's there. If you do the true test of taking multiple floor plans from different buildings, redrawing them in CAD per their noted dimensions and placing average...

So much for the nice brick detailing and coursing on that red brick mass, looks pretty watered down and value-managed now...

Oh my, you weren't kidding. The "queen bed" is basically the size of the tub..

Stunning shots!!

On a separate note, I'm incredibly tired of marketing plans shrinking living room and dining room furniture to basically half of its actual size. It's ridiculous, almost comical looking..

This building is just zooming through construction..

There are some really interesting points here, and ones that I think all can fundamentally understand about the nature of this upcoming building. I think that the easy takedown of this project is attributed to the fact that this is after all a Renzo building, and many of his past projects in...

Pointy tops

3rd floor slabs being poured on the East side

Mechanical penthouse framing going up

This may sound contrary to the point, but I really admire that COBE keeps very similar to the original scheme. When you go through the changes, they seem all very thoughtful and restrained, but composed and well-thought through. As opposed to just making changes for the sake of the scheme being...