Comments on: Dezeen’s top ten skyscrapers

By: YO

YO — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:00:34 +0000

over half of these projects will get built….and they will be awesome….i love oma’s thin brick…its a big fu to som’s shit in the sky…

By: lackofethics

lackofethics — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:53:45 +0000

I am extremely shocked that the clergy of an institution which proclaims the ‘gospel of grace,’ to sell its soul to such a travesty as this architectural proposal. What in the name of grace, the gospel, the Trinity, or a ministry to the downtrodden, can the church team up with greedy developers and put up an extremely perverse and phallic structure? St. Thomas, which is already so wealthy, is thinking in totally market terms, in which it is virtually selling its soul. As a member of the congregation, I am ex-tremely disappointed with how it is selling its soul — like Judas, for 30 pieces of silver, and Peter, who denied Christ — for lack of trust in the living and resurrected Christ? When will the church be aligned with the economics of Jesus, and truly house the poor — instead of always catering to the rich? The economics of the project are questionable — is that the only way to get ‘free maintenance for a church?’ Also, the architecture — is perverse and phallic. There are no ethics involved in this project, and it should behoove Christ’s teachings regarding ’selling’ one’s possessions to give to the poor vs. selling one’s air-rights to cater to the rich

By: noga'z

noga'z — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:24:24 +0000

great work ! but i couldnt but say … do they really work in real life ??

By: RitaSue Siegel

RitaSue Siegel — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:43:55 +0000

Today the LPC is meeting hopefully to deny the transfer of air rights from St Thomas Church and the University Club which would allow the totally out of scale and context Nouvel Tower next to MoMA. It may be a building some like, but it does not belong on the midblock site. As designed, it is the same size if not taller than the Chrysler building. It belongs were it can be seen, near the West Side Highway or in New Jersey. It is pointless to inflict a 75+ story building in a Special PReservation subdistrict of low rise buildings and the community is fighting it. The Community board has voted twice to deny the transfer of air rights.

By: leandro locsin

leandro locsin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:01:49 +0000

nouvel… hadid… nouvel… hadid… nouvel. the shuffle can be endless but when do we start talking about ecology ?

this will have a skyscraping impact to the environment for sure

By: Trang Tran

Trang Tran — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:45:45 +0000

Those buildings look nice yet they are only “cold” renderings (as someone’s already said: to “sell”). I can’t see the real harmony with the environment and the human.
Love the LEGO tower ^^ it has the ‘alive’ sense and love its ‘typography’ yeah~~

By: Morais

Morais — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:10:05 +0000

congratulations…sorry !!!

By: Morais

Morais — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:07:50 +0000

Love The Landmark in Beirut by Jean Nouvel… and congratilations for the Pritzker

By: eyeontheworld

eyeontheworld — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:45:32 +0000

Good job, I suppose, that the top ten is based on number of views. Otherwise………………

By: illegal

illegal — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:04:59 +0000

…nuts…