Everyone talks about the death of traditionalism in our culture, and often modern architecture/art are brought up in those discussions. People point to the bland glass boxes that we build today. But what people aren't realizing that in many cities, especially New York, there has been a resurgence in classical art deco style buildings.
Bill de Blasio proposed a ban on glass skyscrapers earlier this year, and architects and developers have been calling for that to happen.
Pic related is 555 west 22nd, and is under construction currently, an art deco style apartment building. I pray that the 2020's will see a resurgence in this style of architecture.
it's fucking retarded to make them into luxury apartments. true art deco scrapers were always office buildings.
Landon Rivera
anything apartments should look like tall commie bloc towers so the rich fuck off to the burbs so the inner city remains affordable for working class plebes
Lucas Bailey
520 park ave, completed in 2018 Super wealthy people want to live in art deco skyscrapers, a 240 million dollar apartment was sold in and the entire building is sold out, meanwhile the glass monoliths like Central Park Tower and One57 are struggling in sales
the time will come soon for an art deco office tower, There are tons of sites in midtown that are going to be redeveloped into multi million square feet office builds
if it's around fifth ave that's one thing, the rest of the city needs brutalist residential scrapers to encourage those that aren't super wealthy to fuck off to the burbs
and leave the inner city to the working class plebes that keep the city running
Brody Murphy
disgusting
Jace Nelson
art deco is the style of debauchery. please get brutalist.
Easton Nguyen
Absolutely incorrect. It was rarer for sure, but Art Deco apartment buildings-and I’m fact most apartment buildings built in the 1920’s in US cities are absolute god tier.
>the rest of the city needs brutalist residential scrapers to encourage those that aren't super wealthy to fuck off to the burbs *rises in your neighborhood*
Who cares? New York is dead, and the population primarily consists of shitskins and Jews, with actual whites making up barely a fourth of the population.
Robert Hall
art deco should be offices and super wealthy apartments, brutalist for everyone elses apartments, people who larp as the super wealthy but aren't, fuck off to the burbs
There is no style but Neo Classical for important buildings that aren't skyscrapers. Art deco is acceptable for skyscrapers if it is combined with ornate features like statues and tasteful implementation of gold and silver ornamentation because though created by the French, it illustrates American business power well.
isn't it strange how manhattan's skylines is relatively unchanged from the 90s except the wtc, then right around 2014 the skyline just starts exploding with supertall scrapers? seems odd right after the recession, methinks wallstreet made a lot of money from the crash.
Blake Martinez
everything was cozy in that era
Isaac James
There’s even a private ballroom for residents use.
Look at these God tier aesthetics. There is no way you can deny that this is the perfect merger of antiquity and modernity. It shows the elegance of modern tastes while retaining knowledge of its ancestral history. Man once worshipped figures like Atlas, man has now become Atlas, it says.
Not like there was today, but in the early- mid 2000s there was a similar skyscraper boom, One bryant park, 4 times square, New York times buildinh at the time those where some of the tallest buildings going up in the country, and there weren't too many supertalls around the world
That genuinely looks pretty cool. Like what people in the 50s thought buildings in 2020 would look like
Christopher Reyes
wasn't anywhere near the kind of boom now
Josiah Wright
You’re forgetting AtomPunk
Nathaniel Gray
Holy shit that's gorgeous. The little friezes below the windows. I like that at ground level the interface is human-sized.
Jack Rivera
This is a mickey mouse, half assed imitation of 20's architecture. There is no detail, no ornamentation. That was always the important component of architecture, the motifs contained in the ornament. I seriously doubt this building will contain any allusions to greek mythology or christianity via ornament.
Juan Gray
There’s no room in New York, so they keep building these ugly ass skinny modernist bricks.
Kayden Wright
they could 3d print that shit in
Jayden Ward
it was still a boom, only this boom has more buildings, and more taller buildings. Next boom, the buildings could be even taller.
The style I see emerging is environmentally merged buildings, what I mean by that is, buildings with parks on top of them, buildings with parks in the middle floor or terraces with parks on them. The truly based architect will incorporate a fish tank in the center of the building that rises all the way up to the top floor where it loops overhead and to the sides of the building. lol
Caleb Wilson
nice trips
Asher Foster
philly is right there, or boston, even hartford or providence.
Robert Martinez
I’ve got no problem with this, but putting trees on top of a glass building is just halfassed and ugly.
Kevin White
I think after 432 Park was completed people realized that modern architecture is dead.
>This is a mickey mouse, half assed imitation of 20's architecture. There is no detail, no ornamentation. That was always the important component of architecture, the motifs contained in the ornament. I seriously doubt this building will contain any allusions to greek mythology or christianity via ornament. this user gets it i hate the glass and steel boxes like most but fuck that commie deblasio
I shit you not this is what European capitals will start looking like. I am not fucking kidding. Not that tall, but that sort of ugly white and glass with plants hanging off of it aesthetic is all the open mouth pictured nerds like
Sebastian Garcia
its like that movie demolition man in theory but really more like running man in practice which is how the zoomers already resemble
Henry Wilson
It's the product of a society so obsessed with being progressive and forward thinking, that anything that is "original" is deemed as good, even if it is hideous.
Easton James
Shit is fucking hideous. No wonder people are so depressed.
Ryder Adams
It's crazy to see a LOT of new buildings being built in NYC right now. I've never seen so much activity. Like says, 432 Park is an abomination, and everyone hates it. Hudson Yards, as much business as it will get, is going to be ugly too. Still, NYC is seeing a LOT of development. Some is good.
Ian Butler
It is.... When houses become to expensive and are not selling we turn to apartment complex to squeeze as much profit out of a smaller land footprint. Every time I get a scaffold boom in high rises a layoff is coming.
Joshua Diaz
Texas is like that as well unfortunately, so much development, so much wealth pouring in. It honestly makes me wish the economy wasn't so good.
Jaxon Collins
looks like simcity 2000 arcologies
William Baker
Post your favorite Canadian building. I am not familiar with your architecture.
I understand what you're saying and I'm really not trying to disregard your post or claim. But NYC, the greatest city in the world, is basically a construction zone, right now.
Yeah, I definitely couldn't understand it on yalls scale, more pointing to the fact that I find this infinite growth nationwide to be disturbing in a way.
>) Reminds me of the interiors of some of the buildings in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Ryan Turner
Why should I give a shit about building eyecandy? Make something structurally competent, and be done with it you flaming homos.
Caleb Mitchell
im trying to find the movie im thinking of it wasnt running man but i think arnold scwarzenegger is in it and its filmed in the late 90s fuck he has some womens finger and gains access to the car and other shit
Atrocious. Absolutely atrocious. This is a Russian city but just use your imagination in thinking what European cities could look like if the European soul was put into it rather than the modernist trash if even the Russians did this.
If you ever come to the states, Washington D.C. has some areas where you feel like you're in a modern ancient Rome(silly turn of phrase I know), I forgot the name of the street, but literally every building on it is neoclassical and there are statues everywhere, D.C. is cool.
Imagine the history classes that will talk about "the correlation of the decline in western architectural splendor with the decline in western independent thought"
Brandon Russell
end of days, that's what the jews want
Jaxson Young
Looks like a tall prison.
Wyatt Hernandez
That's not Art Deco you retard.
Jack Kelly
no. the 6th day
Dylan Bell
A literal wafer cookie building.
Bentley Gomez
There are a few that come to mind... Tokyo, Shanghai and Istanbul off the top of my head.
