If you were looking to put up the finest high-rise office tower $1 billion could buy, you’d be wise to get Norman Foster’s firm to design it. The trickier question is whether you’d be wise to want such a thing. JDavidsonNYC writes
and start from scratch, the architects arranged for the new iteration to swallow the old one. At the time they were developing the design, byzantine zoning rules required the developers to preserve at least a quarter of the existing structure in order to retain their allotted floor area . It would have been cheaper and easier to tear the whole thing down, but that would have meant replacing it with something smaller.
. The whole apparatus hangs on a thin concrete spine, topped by a triad of steel pins that reach far beyond the roof.In one sense, the design makes the structure visible, a central tenet of modern architecture that dates from around the time Foster was a boy. In another, it’s a sleight of hand, a way to veil the mess and tangle beneath an appearance of candor.
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