The creators of Fifth Avenue's Trump Towers are about to unload some pretty big boxes at the corner of 125th and Park Avenue. In what would be Harlem's tallest building at 21 stories high, construction on "Harlem Park" may soon begin on an open lot adjacent to the Metro North rail station. Explaining the design of stacked glass cubes, SHCA's Roger Klein told Architectural Record: “Instead of trying to do what architects typically do with an office tower, which is to express the verticality of the buildings, we embraced the squat and masculine forms of the Harlem neighborhood." Not sure I see much of the neighborhood reflected in this building -- except for maybe that other 125th St. behemoth, the Adam Clayton Powell building. What do others think?
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This definitely does not reflect the neighborhood at all - it sticks out like a sore thumb. The scale of the building is all wrong it dwarfs the neighboring buildings. It takes away from the beauty of the area because all you see is this box building. A futuristic building amongst historic New York just doesn't seem to work. This science fiction building belongs in Tokyo, Japan or Bladerunner's future L.A. then the building would work - beautifully!
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