This is so pathetic. I am so so sick of people fearing color. If the balconies were clear or frosted glass no one would say anything. in fact no one looks beyond color. This building is super designed, efficient, progressive, very inexpensive and democratic and will set a precedent for shaping point-of-entry high design condominiums in New York. I did my undergraduate thesis on color 30 years ago and i concluded that it is strange how as we go closer to the equator our built environment is more colorful. those cultures embrace color in their architecture, clothing, and everyday life. Their art is colorful, their objects are colorful, their passions imbue colorful lives. (I am in Ecuador now and just actually touched the equator line). Countries like Ecuador, Kenya, Malaysia, Colombia, brazil, Chili, etc. have a beautiful history of color. their cultures for centuries were embracing every hue possible. But as we go further from the equator the built environment becomes more beige, brown, and gray. Dont you think it should be the other way round? meaning that when you are surrounded by beaches with turquoise water, blue skies, colorful flowers and foliage, colorful exotic birds and wildlife, that the architecture then could be neutral and as we go north to darker, grayer climates with rain and snow and shorter days that we should embrace color and build a engaging inspiring colorful landscape with our architecture, our dress, and our domestic environments? One day i will build a huge beautiful Techorganic pink blob building in every northern city (Toronto, New York, Glasgow, Dublin, Helsinki, Oslo, London, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, and on and on) just to piss off the banal pent-up conservative fear-mungers and create some joie de vive, some dolce vita, some positive energetic brilliant buildings that are antithetical to the conservative flyblown mundane monochromatic skylines.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:29:27 +0000
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