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May 20, 2005

The New Pimp of 8th Ave

05/19/05

Norman Foster's first building in New York...Struttin' into the kitchen with a fur coat.

Posted by jmarston at May 20, 2005 10:31 AM

Comments

The building's ok. Only issue is that it is flush with a banal red brick rental apartment building for almost three quarters of its height. The renderings used to generate buzz for the tower always showed ut as a free standing structure, or at least that's how I remember it.

Posted by: alan at May 20, 2005 10:50 AM

So I'll take this as a yes?

Posted by: miss representation at May 20, 2005 11:53 AM

soon ... but lets let this pimp polish his chalice before we drop the H-bomb on him. can't even see his base yet... but when we can, all signals go.

Posted by: Dave at May 20, 2005 11:57 AM