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5 Reasons the Affirmation Tower Is New York's Most Exciting Real Estate Project For starters, it’s designed, developed, and funded by a prominent majority-Black and women-led team
Architectural Digest ^ | 12-10-21 | Jessica Cherner

Posted on 01/08/2022 11:29:24 AM PST by dynachrome

The island of Manhattan boasts so many soaring towers, that it’s hardly news when a new one shoots up—even if its spire pierces the clouds. That said, now and then, there’s an exception in the form of an ambitious architectural masterpiece, like the west side’s new 90-story Affirmation Tower, a five-tiered, terrazzo-clad skyscraper that, upon closer inspection, appears to be upside down. Developed by Don Peebles, the chief operating officer at the Peebles Corporation, and designed by AD100 architect Sir David Adjaye, Affirmation Tower is as symbolic as it is enormous (1,663 feet tall and two million square feet.) Not only is the statuesque mixed-use building developed, built, and funded by Black- and female-owned businesses, but its tenants will be minority entrepreneurs (with the exception of the local NAACP offices, among Affirmation Tower’s earliest tenants to move in).

(Excerpt) Read more at architecturaldigest.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: affirmation; newyork; racisttower
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To: albie

Hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but the Federal government regularly requires that their IT contractors are brought in from minority or “differently-abled” owned businesses. Let that sink in. It’s not architecture, but it is often networking, telecom, cybersecurity...


61 posted on 01/08/2022 2:02:12 PM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: PIF

Egyptians did, not sub-Saharan Africans.


62 posted on 01/08/2022 2:13:38 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
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To: dynachrome

Think about it, somebody actually looked at all the concepts and said yep that’s the one, let’s go with it. It’s a veritable breakthrough in architectural design and engineering. And they wonder why they’re “held” back.


63 posted on 01/08/2022 2:18:33 PM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: dynachrome

Affirmative action has made me “racist.” i would not trust a black architect or engineer knowing the possibility they only graduated college because of their skin color and not their talent.


64 posted on 01/08/2022 2:26:32 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: KarlInOhio

Reminds me of another cartoon I once saw:

A construction crew is digging an enormous hole in the ground. The foreman, holding a set of plans, leans over the safety railing and shouts, “Stop digging! We were holding the plans upside down!”


65 posted on 01/08/2022 2:56:43 PM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: dynachrome

Don Peebles

Didn’t Mr. Peebles have a gorilla for sale?


66 posted on 01/08/2022 3:01:33 PM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: PghBaldy

Egyptians did, not sub-Saharan Africans.


Catch up ... that’s the claim they make - any semblance to reality is purely coincidental, like the claim they used to fly over the site back in the day - this was before Kwanzaa mind you.


67 posted on 01/08/2022 3:06:54 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: jughandle

Designed by Ghanaian British architect Sir David Adjaye.


68 posted on 01/08/2022 3:07:34 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: dynachrome

Is that thing for real?


69 posted on 01/08/2022 4:15:55 PM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: SamAdams76

My late father worked as a project manager for a large building firm in NYC years ago.

When ever he would go on presentations to prospective clients they would tell my dad their biggest recruitment problem was getting young women to take entry level jobs or any job because they didn’t want to work in high rise buildings. And this was years before 9/11.


70 posted on 01/08/2022 4:30:09 PM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

It was going to be for real, but New York state gov’t put a hold on it. They must be ray-ciss.


71 posted on 01/08/2022 4:34:38 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

The most beautiful building in NYC is the Chrysler Building.

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72 posted on 01/08/2022 4:36:36 PM PST by Mears
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To: One4Life

I think they just posted the photo upside down.

Anybody remember that walking bridge designed by women!?


73 posted on 01/08/2022 4:40:08 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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74 posted on 01/08/2022 4:49:28 PM PST by deport
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To: dynachrome

That building is upside down!!


75 posted on 01/08/2022 8:18:56 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: jjotto

Ghana man! British educated. Great people. I was based there with an airline in the mid ‘70s.


76 posted on 01/08/2022 8:40:26 PM PST by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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77 posted on 01/09/2022 5:20:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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