{"id":469,"date":"2007-03-01T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/ny6wp\/?p=469"},"modified":"2007-03-01T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T14:47:00","slug":"111-first-st-tower-announced-architect-denounced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"111 First St. Tower Announced, Architect Denounced"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t yet seen the renderings of the Koolhaas vision of Jersey City, the Wired Forums<\/a> have them posted. A picture really is worth a thousand words, especially when those pictures depict three rectangles stacked precariously into a 52 story tower. <\/p>\n

While 52 stories isn’t particularly tall compared to world standards, or even when compared to other towers across Jersey City’s skyline, the story was big enough for Curbed<\/a> to mention it and even for Hoboken411<\/a> to look across their southern border. That makes sense after all, since its the folks in Manhattan and Hoboken who will have to look at this building in profile. <\/p>\n

Now whether you love it or hate it, there is of course something to be said about having a world famous architect building structures in your backyard. On one hand, its easy to see how this tower is Jersey City’s Guggenheim Museum, yet on the other side of things, it could clearly be another Miss Brooklyn. <\/p>\n

But enough about the tower. After all, when it comes to development in Jersey City, its always personal. Which is why we were intrigued when Tris McCall posed the question, Is Rem Koolhaas an asshole?<\/a>. Yes, apparently he is, least of all because he’s proposed stacking three soviet style block houses on top of each other, and mostly because he has the audacity to call it art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t yet seen the renderings of the Koolhaas vision of Jersey City, the Wired Forums have them posted. A picture really is worth a thousand words, especially when those pictures depict three rectangles stacked precariously into a 52 story tower. While 52 stories isn’t particularly tall compared to world standards, or even when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jersey-city","category-pad"],"views":1573,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}