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May 16, 2006
Gehry Jedi mind tricks working
In a sign that the fanciful Gehry photo renderings are managing to soothe some critics, One Hanson Place offers a comparison of one of the Gehry images with a view of the Manhattan skyline from Manhattan Ave. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (photo grabbed from NYC-architecture.com).
The Gehry rendering depicts buildings five short blocks* away as being more faint than buildings that are nearly two miles away in the Greenpoint photo.
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Imagine a view as imposing as the Greenpoint view, only it's just down the street. At least Greenpointers don't have to deal with the additional traffic from the Citicorp building and the monolithic Trump World Tower.
* Note: Gehry's image locates the intersection just four blocks away, at St. Marks, while in reality, it's the intersection of Prospect Place.
Posted by lumi at May 16, 2006 3:02 PM