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.

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

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

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

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  4. 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?

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

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

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  8. It was Cafe Pasqua before Starbucks

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