Skyscraper Under Construction, 270 Park Avenue, NYC, 2021.
All the pixels, no hardhat required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51382836481
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Captured with the Phase One IQ4-150 Achromatic back and the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens, which, unusually for large format lenses, employs a floating element integrated into the focusing helical.
This view is literally a construction site (to become the new JP Morgan building), but abstract at the same time. We see the new skyscraper, and the buildings in the background, essentially as a Mondrian-esq deconstructed tangle of lines and rectangles.
The skyscrapers along Park Avenue in the 40’s and lower 50’s are all minor engineering marvels. They’re built atop the rail yard for Grand Central Terminal (an early adopter of the modern real estate concept of “air rights”). Many of the newer buildings are much taller than was anticipated when the terminal was constructed more than a century ago. This heavily constrains their foundations and anchor points, leading to unusual load-bearing designs such as the steelwork shown in the photo.
@mattblaze@federate.social umm… any word on their embodied carbon emissions?
@phlogger@mamot.fr I’m afraid such a calculation would be beyond the scope of my expertise.
