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FL Wright once said that architects could always grow ivy over their mistakes. There ain't enough kudzu in Georgia to cover this one. It's taller than the Chrysler Building.
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like a giant vacuum tube out of the old Magnavox TV belonging to the Jolly Green Giant.
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It makes no rhyme or reason to me, a box sitting on top of a Playdough extrusion, with half a Coke can on the top. I suppose there's some fashionista wanker out there who thinks this jerry-built eyesore of future Section 8 housing is clever. The worst part is that it dominates the vista of 4th Avenue where Lafayette and the Bowery come together. You can't not look at it.
Eeewww!
3 comments:
Egads - one abomination after another. Leviticus surely said something about this.
Oh good God, save me now. Seeing that building on Astor Place makes me shudder. I hated seeing it go up, I hated banking in the evil Chase in the lobby.
It really is like someone putting some Michael Graves-designed item from Target in the middle of a Victorian period home.
Ack.
You have no idea how many memories this stirs. How many days I flew down the entrance of that subway that you see in the front of that picture.
Fleeing the ugly building!!
Well, I kinda like the blue-glass "tumor" (just from the pic).
Re the first one: isn't the new 9-11 "Liberty Tower" supposed to look a lot like that?!
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