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.
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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.
