Do you think any of these New York City skyscrapers look good?

[signal]

Lots of people (understandably) complain about boring looking skyscrapers or supertalls, so out of curiosity, I want to see which, if any, of these currently under construction tallish NYC buildings people might like. Do you enjoy any of these 🤔

Spoiler: A. 270 Park Ave (New JPMorgan Chase HQ)

Renders

Spoiler: B. Brooklyn Tower

1 render + under construction

Spoiler: C. The Spiral

2 renders, 2 under construction

Spoiler: D. 262 Fifth Ave

Renders

Spoiler: E. 175 Park Avenue (Grand Hyatt)

Renders

 

[Blablurn]

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I think they look fine. I will never live in one of them because I'm not rich, but I think they look fine!

 

[IDontBeatGames]

Option A is clearly the best looking building IMO. However I do like Options A,C,E overall. As for the other options, I dunno man, there's something about super tall slim buildings that feel weird to me lol

 

[deimosmasque]

I love them all. But to be truthful I love all skyscrapers.

 

[CoolOff]

A, B, E for me. D is horrendous.

 

[Avitus]

Park Ave buildings are neat. More Walker Tower and less Billionaire row.

Spiral seems like a decent take on an otherwise nondescript building.

 

[NickatNite]

First vote goes to The Spiral

Runner up would be the Brooklyn Tower

 

[ILikeFeet]

I really like the gold accenting on A

B is boring. nothing much going for it

C is even more boring and lacking character. the silhouette is just generic. the premise is wasted on a very poor execution

D is nice and minimal. what it has in a generic silhouette is made up for in the idea of impossibility. excellent engineering

E tickles my nostalgia bone. like a call back to the 50s with retro futurism of art deco with touches of modernity

 

[Reckheim]

I only don't like C.

 

[vixolus]

I think they all look pretty cool in the right lighting/vantage point

 

[Ernest]

Spiral and Hyatt are the only ones that don't make me gag.

 

[echoshifting]

Hate D. The rest are marvelous

 

[Chaos Legion]

NYC really took over the claim of best skyscrapers from Chicago and hasn't looked back. These are gorgeous

 

[Nooblet]

270 Park Ave looks great

The Spiral doesn't look as good but those gardens are quite cool and would be great for people in the building.

262 Fifth Ave clearly looks the worst.

 

[Imperfected]

Not a big fan of D, but the others all look really cool to me. I like skyscrapers. I mean I prefer monuments, but skyscrapers are kind of monument-lite for disaster capitalism.

 

[PanSexual_Peacock]

I actually think they all look pretty good and creative. Certainly better than the toothpick skyscrapers.

 

[Davilmar]

Not fond of any of them, honestly.

 

[Kinthey]

Put these in the next Spiderman game and I wont complain

 

[TheWooniestWoona]

A and E are tops for me, and C isn't too bad.

 

[NinjaGarden]

D looks like it has building acne. I love it.

 

[LegalEagleMike]

D gives me anxiety

 

[scottbeowulf]

D is the only one that kinda hurts my eyes. Poor design. All the others are cool. I'm kind of a sucker for skyscrapers in general tho.

 

[Septy]

270 Park Ave is like a modern Art Deco. Beautiful.

 

[Lulu]

Its whatever, i dont even notice any more

 

[Perkin_Warbeck]

I think A is the best one. Generally I think they look fine, I do think D is a bit disquieting though because it's so skinny.

 

[ChrisR]

voted ACE

B is whatever, D is nasty

 

[TaySan]

I like A and E. Don't care for the rest

 

[m_shortpants]

A and E are nice.

Kind of like them all though.

 

[signal]

Surprised the Isengard look of B isn't getting more love.

 

[Imperfected]

Surprised the Isengard look of B isn't getting more love.

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It's a place to take hobbits, I guess.

 

[Raxus]

D is by far the ugliest. Like c and e.

There are parts of a I don't like.

B is meh.

 

[Mortemis]

I really don't like these new super thin skyscrapers. The rest look fine, with A being my favorite.

 

[wholahay]

These are all fine! I'm not mad about any of them, really.

D is the worst, though. I'm really over the skinny building thing (i.e. I fucking loathe 432 Park Avenue) but I find the "let's integrate some basic geometric shapes" thing kind of charming? It's like they built the world's tallest elementary school.

 

[disparate]

They're all fine, but how about scrapping SFH enforced zoning so you don't need to force anything beyond a house into 20% of the city because it's banned in the other 80%+

 

[NotVeryFriendly]

ACE. B still looks like it's under construction (in the render obviously) but otherwise is pretty harmless. D is outright horrible.

 

[Rodney McKay]

A, C, and E for me. The other two are boring, I'm just not a big fan of the super tall and skinny look.

 

[trashbandit]

I like A and C. I think D looks cool at night but kinda eh during the day.

 

[thewienke]

Hate the pencil style buildings - so D is awful and I don't care for B which is too close to D in shape. Aren't all the super skinny ones just absurdly priced condos for the ultra wealthy?

I like the others though.

 

[Rogue74]

E is the one that caught my eye the most. A is OK as well. The others are meh.

Chrysler Building still my favorite.

 

[qaopjlll]

I pick A,C,E. The other 2 skinny towers look bad. Looks like most agree based on the poll results

 

[SteveMeister]

I quite like all of them, to be honest. That last one is beautiful, though.

 

[UnpopularBlargh]

They all look like they belong in Half-Life 2.

Or Halo.

 

[hanshen]

The facade on B is ok, not a fan of pencil towers though. The rest are hideous.
Source: architect who works on these type of buildings, including one in Manhattan. So I'm super biased.

 

[Lunchbox-]

new york is an ugly city that's getting uglier by the day with those horrible looking new design


RIP the classy twin towers

 

[signal]

The facade on B is ok, not a fan of pencil towers though. The rest are hideous.
Source: architect who works on these type of buildings, including one in Manhattan. So I'm super biased.

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Which? Dox yourself!!

 

[rusty chrome]

They look really fucking cool.

 

[Frodo]

D is gonna age terribly.

A and E are probably the best ones, because they borrow from tested and true designs more. B and C are... okay-ish, I guess?

 

[Dyle]

270 Park Avenue is fine, I've always loved bringing structural elements to the surface but I'm not sold on the color in the renders. A darker color closer to Seagram's original look would make it much more palatable to me. I'm not totally sold on the base but it's decent.

Absolutely love Brooklyn Tower, by far the best of the bunch. Nothing better than an Art Deco inspired skyscraper. Is it too tall for its neighborhood? Yes it definitely is, but at least it looks good doing it.

The Spiral is nasty. Those roof decks are not going to be pleasant or useful and the spiral itself is not related to the rest of the building's form at all. Just a gross dated design.

262 Fifth Avenue is the only Billionaire's Row building that is acceptable for my tastes. The circles along the side feel like a brutalist nod for the most anti-brutalist building ever which is the kind of humor I like in my architecture

Not a fan the Grand Hyatt. I generally like the base (ignoring the poor integration of the walkway to Grand Central) with the clustered columns but the way they are resolved at the top feels uninspired and ostentatious, almost too obvious. It stands out too much for a relatively modest (not in size but ornamentation) skyline like New York.

 

[White Glint]

Just Brooklyn Tower imo. The rest are ugly, particularly the spiral and 262

 

[signal]

The Spiral is nasty. Those roof decks are not going to be pleasant or useful and the spiral itself is not related to the rest of the building's form at all. Just a gross dated design.

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It's pretty bland by Bjarke Ingels standards. I'm not really a fan either.