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Originally Posted by thunda
I like the idea of the lawn and the water elements, but that huge glass cube is right in the middle of the the traffic between City Hall's west portal and the pedestrian intersection. Aesthetics aside, I don't think it's well sited (though projecting movies against it is a cool idea).
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Note that the glass cube is designed so that it straddles the passage from the west portal to the 15th/Market intersection. I think that would work just fine and be way cool. (Thread-tying alert: Maybe they could put an
Apple Store beneath the reflecting pool where the sunken part of Dilworth Plaza now sits!
)
zur: If I didn't know better, I'd say you have turned into a full-blown Negadelphian. And for all I know, maybe you have. I'm sure the residents of that new Ritz tower would probably prefer looking at this to looking at what's there now -- and they would be more likely to hang out on the grass than on the stone benches now there. As another poster said, people
do use this space now when there's an event on it; I think those same people would be equally inclined to linger there with a more inviting design. This certainly qualifies.
JFK Plaza is getting a makeover too? I don't know how far along it is, and I know there's been a lot invested in that alternate skatepark site (in FDR Park? Below the Art Museum?), but IMO the redesign should make it possible for the skateboarders to return and leave in the features that made it such a draw.