The glass dress looks better.
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“deliberately made it hard to distinguish between true grandeur and mock grandiloquence.”
I love the AT&T Building, but that description is perfect for 15 CPW.
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This is how I know I'm old: A building opened when I was already an adult is now a historical landmark. (That said, I agree that the present new design is an improvement on the first redesign and on what was done in the '90s.)
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I always liked this building because it reminded me of a modern grandfather clock. I'm happy they didn't gut the original look of the building and I loved the new windows to open the space up. Sometimes rational thinking does win.
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It took me a few moments to realize that I appreciated this article in part because of its up-beat tone. Rather than lamenting problems and changes that affected the tower, this article went from here was a problem, here's what we did about it and what's more, the final result is better than what we started with. I wish more commentary shared this spirit of trying to see the opportunity in the world rather than just bemoaning all of its ills. This positive can-do attitude of combining the thoughts of potential critics with your own ideas is what leads to real progress. Thanks for the insightful piece.
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I always thought this was one of NYC's nicest buildings.
I guess I just like oddball designs, like the old Pan Am building.
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Glowing screens without context, everywhere.
Thank goodness for some sanity here, preserving a sense of solid material (or its absence) and a top-to-bottom coherence. What quaint virtues.
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