Posted on 12/28/2014 3:05:07 PM PST by SMGFan
No matter where you are in Hudson County — from Jersey City's Liberty State Park, the piers of Hoboken or the Waterfront Walkway in Weehawken — the views across the river now seem dominated by One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
But that massive building, standing at 1,776-feet tall, recently made Slate's ignominious list of The 11 Worst Buildings of 2014.
One World Trade Center, writes Slate's Kriston Capps, "may stand as the worst project of a generation."
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Soon there will be several residential towers in mid-town Manhattan that will tower over it (if you don’t include the spire - which is a way of cheating).
I’ve seen it close up (when in NYC I always make time to visit Ground Zero) but never from afar.Up close I don’t find it at all impressive,design-wise that is.
Get tired of just plain glass blocks,no style in that.
There are only so many ways you can design a sky scraper. It should have been an honest 1776 feet tall, because it soul have been all rented out.
It’s not as though there is such a thing as a half-filled tower in Manhattan.
It’s not the worst, but there should’ve been two buildings built with a better design instead of the “unfinished” look at the top.
Everyone hated the Two Towers as well.
Kriston Capps is an idiot.
I see it a lot because both my kids live in Jersey City. I liked it at first, but a year later, I agree — it should have been two towers. And pretending the antenna on the top is part of the building is a joke.
Actually, I’m not a modern skyscraper fan, but I thought the Twin Towers were very attractive—from a distance, from close up, and inside. I used to walk by them regularly for a number of years. They had a kind of subtlety and balance that most glass towers lack.
This one certainly is a large step down, IHMO.
It’s the tallest minaret in the world, at least the top third.
They really should have rebuilt the Twin towers as they were—except just a little taller.
I don’t dislike the Freedom tower, but it’s just not that distinctive. The 9/11 memorial (two gaping holes as a waterfall) is also kind of depressing.
I suppose they liked the hole in the ground better.
I have never seen anything like that in my life in person, around here, the tallest building is two stories tall. But we do have 14,000 foot mountains here. Kind of makes up for it.
It looks somewhat like Fountain Place...
I thought it was supposed to represent a memorial candle, with the antenna as the flame. It looks like a candle.
...and the big red target on all four sides that only Muslims can see.
I looked at that list and frankly didn’t agree with it.
Several of the inclusions are very contemporary and quite a few experimental/revolutionary.
Go back and read the critiques of art deco architecture and some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work when they were new.
None of these buildings can be accurately assessed until decades have passed.
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