Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Breaking: Death Star getting some life



As this photo from ‏@Ewingweb shows... workers are putting in some shrubbery, trees, etc., this afternoon outside 51 Astor Place... hopefully there will be some sun left for the green things.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Or it could be a giant mushroom ready to soak up all that shadow.....

Laura Goggin Photography said...

Let's green-bomb the entire thing with wisteria and ivy.

Anonymous said...

Don't trees need sunlight? The Death Star blocks out all the sun.

~evilsugar25 said...

this freakin monstrosity startles me every time i pass it. awful and so out of place. i never thought i'd miss that crappy ugly low building that was there before it. was it a Seattle's Best Coffee before the Starbucks?

Anonymous said...

Not a fan of the building and agree with evilsugar that I never thought I'd miss the ugly predecessor but I have been pleasantly surprised at certain times of the day when the windows reflect fantastic cloudscapes. Although perhaps that's just the deathstar lulling me into complacency.

Anonymous said...

Architects should know better...but then greed makes them do all sorts of nasty things to our neighborhood. This one just happens to be bigger and more prominent than most.

Anonymous said...

Agree with post above. The only way I can "see" this building is to see the reflections it provides. Otherwise, meh!

Anonymous said...

It was Cafe Pasqua before Starbucks