Detail of architectural rendering for 808 Columbus development, via Curbed. This is pretty how much how most of the New York metropolitan area is looking to me these days. I moved (back) here from Dallas 11 years ago this month, and that city followed me up here. One question I have is, how can New York City have so many banks? Every time a family-owned deli or hardware store closes it is replaced by a bank. My theory, without doing the research, is that the banks are buying the real estate (a la Starbucks), and those people sitting at desks behind the glass windows trying to look busy are just props.
Ooooo, that's pretty ... vacant. They really aren't even trying. Perhaps by building insignificant buildings they facilitate the eventual demolition and replacement with something newer yet equally vapid.
Dallas is a (scary) state of mind...
``as long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it.'' - Clayton Williams
or
"Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eye
A steel and concrete soul with a warm hearted love disguise
A rich man who tends to believe in his own lies
Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes"
from "Dallas" by Jimmie Dale Gilmore
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Detail of architectural rendering for 808 Columbus development, via Curbed. This is pretty how much how most of the New York metropolitan area is looking to me these days. I moved (back) here from Dallas 11 years ago this month, and that city followed me up here. One question I have is, how can New York City have so many banks? Every time a family-owned deli or hardware store closes it is replaced by a bank. My theory, without doing the research, is that the banks are buying the real estate (a la Starbucks), and those people sitting at desks behind the glass windows trying to look busy are just props.
- tom moody 5-19-2006 9:30 pm
Ooooo, that's pretty ... vacant. They really aren't even trying. Perhaps by building insignificant buildings they facilitate the eventual demolition and replacement with something newer yet equally vapid.
- mark 5-19-2006 10:41 pm
Dallas is a (scary) state of mind...
``as long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it.'' - Clayton Williams
- Thor Johnson 5-19-2006 11:26 pm
or
"Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eye
A steel and concrete soul with a warm hearted love disguise
A rich man who tends to believe in his own lies
Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes"
from "Dallas" by Jimmie Dale Gilmore
- Thor Johnson 5-19-2006 11:56 pm