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Burning Question: NYC’s Worst (Lego) Building?
04 Feb 2009 @ 4:04 PM
We were just sent in the direction of Christoph Niemann’s brilliant Abstract City blog over at the now-bloggeriffic Times, this time for I LEGO N.Y. But we weren’t sent just to abstractly peruse, ponder, contemplate. We were sent, rather, to figure out, at about halfway down the page, which building the clock-hands-mark-the-spot white lego construction (above, right) was supposed to be. We’re trying to read it for clues. Is it the Verizon tower? A totally sly mirror-reference to 7 World Trade? For this, our inaugural Burning Question, we need help. Thoughts? Answers? Speculations? Tips(at)Edificial(dot)com.
I Lego N.Y. [New York Times]
—Eva
Comments [3]
That of course is 375 Pearl Street, a Nicolai favorite: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/which-new-york-buildings-would-you-demolish/
verizon building!
I'm disappointed- 375 Pearl may be the most visible of ugly buildings, but it's far from the ugliest. And the top ten lists on the cityroom blog mentioned above are just as disappointing. According to these criteria, a building deserves the ugly stick or the wrecking ball if:
a) a man with a comb-over had anything to do with its financing.
b) it stands on the former site of another building.
c) it doesn't have holes corresponding to the eyes, nose, and mouth, that every really American house presents to the world.
What would modern architecture be without the blank wall and the mute volume? Folks, we have to come up with a better list of truly unsettling architectural horrors than this!