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Frank Lloyd Wright Loved to Hate New York

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Taking an Uber into Manhattan 2 nights I was struck by the beauty and grandeur of the city at night.

Then over where we came out of the tunnel and onto the island it turned out to be garbage day. Heaps of trash everywhere. Homeless wandering around. Minimal trees or greenery.

Still glad I moved away, but it is nice to visit, and it is in many ways a great city.

I’ve found New York is best enjoyed from a distance, or moving through it at speed, or through films. Other great world cities London, Tokyo, Paris etc you can enjoy up close while walking around them but NYC when you get too close any charm that was there evaporates because of the stress, traffic, odors, etc.

Every day is garbage day, somewhere in NYC

And every day it looks like the garbagemen are on strike.

Those towers sound pretty cool. Has anyone else tried the spiraling or even just tapering floors idea?

Check out Santiago Calatrava's Turning Torso in Malmo Sweden.

"The construction costs were almost double the estimate."

Classic Calatrava!

He should be an honorary software engineer.

Seattle's new-ish library is like that: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/259421447

One was eventually built, sort of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_Tower

thank you

I stayed at the hotel there several years ago: 1 night in a regular room and 1 night in the suite. If you stay, I highly recommend splurging on the suite so you can experience more of the design elements and have a chance to soak them in.

One interesting aspect of the design is that electrical outlets were far more plentiful than was standard at the time of construction in the 1950s, but IIRC Wright had already spec'd those out in the original design from the 1920s. If you stay in the suite you get to experience how convenient this is, convenient even compared to modern construction, rather than simply being told about it during a walk-through tour. (The regular rooms are too small to have many outlets.)

The Arts Center shop also sold a nice range of reproductions, like garden sculptures. You could probably find them (the authentic reproductions) elsewhere, but probably not all together like that; you can't know what to look for if you haven't seen it available.

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