Comments on: Axis Mundi Unveils Alternative Design for MoMA Tower

By: lkiss1

lkiss1 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:57:27 +0000

If we want to play this game then it was done much better by the likes of James Wines more then 30 years ago or even Hundertwasser. This proposal I must say is obsoletely terrible in all aspects and it would be a nightmare to live in since none of the exterior spaces could be ever used because of the high velocity winds that would be generated by the gaps.

With the onslaught of internet information avalanche have we become so dumbed down and myopic that we have forgotten our history?

Like Cesar Pelli is once was famously quoted saying to a student at Yale “You have to be very good to do this type of architecture … and you, you’re not very good”

By: navitimes

navitimes — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:26:52 +0000

I am in for a penthouse unit! What a perfect solution for the diversity of this city!

By: gc

gc — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:14:10 +0000

this concept is reminds me a lot of the informal communities in developing countries where a mosaic patterns of various materials, scales, programs are congregated to become a larger whole. it is a fascinating urban phenomenon when it happens naturally. to intentionally do something like this just seems a little awkward and pretentious. i’ll understand it if the surrounding area is composed of such quality, but in manhattan? maybe it’s just me.

personally i prefer the nouvel design, at least it’s a play of the type of urbanism that characterizes new york

By: robert murray

robert murray — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:55:46 +0000

OMG! The new design is insane. AWESOME! Amazing images. Really seems to reflect the city.

By: Yuka Yoneda

Yuka Yoneda — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:15:15 +0000

Obviously Jeremy. Haha.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:52:24 +0000

This looks a whole lot like the things I used to build out of Lego when I was about fifteen… which is a good thing, obviously.

By: cmaosrstaonndra

cmaosrstaonndra — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:26:30 +0000

Funny, I had this very idea about a year ago of effectively stacking houses on top of one another. It seems to be a popular idea recently. I wonder how much harder the support structures have to work in these arrangements.