We’ve finally figured out what to call the new residential buildings that keep springing up alongside the High Line here in NYC — Pop Up Video inspired architecture.
Happy April Fools’ Day!
New York City’s Skyastle
Yes, Manhattan has the Belvedere Castle in Central Park, but just outside of the park sits a bigger, more impressive castle — way up in the sky.
It’s a skyastle! Yes, we just coined a new word. New York Times, we’re ready for you to republish “skyastle” in an article so that it will become a real word, just like the time when you reprinted our invented architectural design phrase “Darwin Terrace” a real life thing.
A Beautiful Mess
This is how the 4th Avenue F/G train station looks about now…
And it’s a beautiful mess!
This Is Your Wake Up Call
They spent nine figures building this glass tower just so that someone could put “this is your wake up call” on the windows in pinks lettering.
It could have been worse, it could have read, “this is your margin call!”
Freedom Tower February 2012
The Freedom Tower is nearly as tall as the old Twin Towers were, and is now merely another Goliath of a building in Manhattan’s skyline.
So much so, that Manhattan’s smog blurs the tower from a distance now. Smog, yummy!
05/01/2012 UPDATE: And if you would like to see how the Freedom Tower/1WTC looked in other months, click here for January 2012, click here for March 2012, click here for April 2012, click here for May 2012, and click here for an assortment of pics taken over the past year and a half or so.