Random Restless

4/19/11

From Brooklyn Bridge


From near the Manhattan end of the bridge, above, downtown is a brutal wall of ugly.  There are still a few appealing towers in there from the '40s aerial shot to the left, where the tallest buildings were slender as the Woolworth Building.

But I found just one newer building I like, below left.  The rest are fat boxes featuring schlock color or clumsy patterns, that manage to make whatever they're made of look cheap and artificial.


There's more visual interest created, unintentionally, in canyons between humbler buildings, like above right.  And as much as the I dislike the crooked Global Elite / Wall Street money that made Gehry's tower possible, I'd rather look at it and the buildings around it, below, than further downtown.