#votersagainstsupertalls, ABC Watch, CENTRAL dARK
Like leggy plants given too much fertiliser, [sic] these buildings are a symptom of a city irrigated with too much money. The Guardian takes on the emergence of a “new” typology in “Super-tall, Super-skinny, Super-expensive: the ‘Pencil...
#votersagainstsupertalls, CENTRAL dARK, Uncategorized
From New York Magazine’s “The Approval Matrix: Week of February 4, 2019”: “So it’s perfectly legal right now for developers to put 160-feet tall “mechanical voids” in their buildings to give apartments higher priced...
#votersagainstsupertalls, CENTRAL dARK, Friends of the UES
GOTHAMIST picks up where it left off last week in its expose on the City Planning Commission’s Zoning Text Amendment. Journalist Elizabeth Kim notes that although this language may impact the design of 36 West 66th Street, to revise “the design of a...
#votersagainstsupertalls, ABC Watch, CENTRAL dARK
Our fight against supertall towers continues making headlines! LANDMARK WEST! board chair Page Cowley, FAIA and her fellow Community Board 7 member, Peter Samton, FAIA penned an Op-Ed for ARCHITECTURAL RECORD. Living Tall, Too Tall...
#votersagainstsupertalls, ABC Watch, CENTRAL dARK, When the Process Works
Attached HERE is a letter from City Planning–including information on their proposal to address excessive mechanical voids in Residential Buildings. This has been a long time in the making and it appears as though relief is in sight. Developers will...
