Views from Inside and Atop Renzo Piano's NYT Prison

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Prison bars are vertical, dumbasses.

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She is hot! They should of gone all the way and wrapped the building in concrete, take that views! ...........how post modern.

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That "bar" look isn't the view from an actual office, it's from the roof. The only way you would have that view from the actual office floors is if you were 3 feet tall.

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#3: It's still a silly design. They've got beautiful floor-to-ceiling windows and they block 2/3 of the view with ugliy horizontal bars, why? For the sake of aesthetics as viewed by someone in Times Square or New Jersey? It looks ugly from the outside anyway. What a waste.

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quatre: what do you care? Are you going to work there? You're likely going to be seeing the building as most would anyways - from the outside.

Besides, the fact that you don't 'get' the bars doesn't mean it isn't a good idea. There are areas there aren't bars, namely the corners and at eye level (where it counts). They have a purpose - to save energy and dissipate sunlight.

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But it's ugly from the outside. And now that I see the results for the people who are going to work there (true, that's not me), it just seems like a poor idea. There are other ways to reduce heat or light transmission. I'm not against innovation -- but this design simply doesn't appeal to me. I too get the sensation of "prison" or "playground jungle gym."

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I'm three feet tall. Why does no one care about my needs?

Guess I'll go work for the Observer instead...

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#5 Did they tell you it was a good idea when you started to work there smart guy? Those bars are retarded.

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#8: no. It's just that new things don't frighten me as much as they apparently do to you.

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went to one of those show off the building to possible renters thing a year ago. they went into a whole thing about how the bars and the exterior are supposed to absorb the color of the day and thr city, giving the building a different look at every time of the day. bullshit, the building looks as gray as the skys of london at all times.

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The bars are actually a LEED feature. They supposedly help keep the interior cooler on hot, sunny days.

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Guys, sorry but you're all wrong. If those views are from the roof as stated, those slats are pretty standard these days. They keep the mechanical equipment, notably the cooling towers, from view. They allow the building to look 'whole', while admitting the air that the cooling towers and related equipment need to operate.

Standard stuff.

Denton

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Hey Lock - Thanks for linking to the Youtube of the construction hoist ride. That was really awesome. Really. You just caused me wasted 94 seconds of my life.

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chicks in hard hats are hot