This is a medical building in downtown Manhattan. I feel deeply sorry that a client paid money for this design, and I feel even more sorry for the people who have to use this building. Unless it is protected by some absurd law I predict that this structure only has a lifespan of twenty more years. That's what is delightful about Manhattan-- at some point, money talks and the other stuff walks.
Why do I think it is bad? It has limited windows, it has little, if any, streetfront interaction. There is ambiguity about how to get into it. It signals nothing about its purpose. It has no relationship to its context-it could be at home in Duluth or Mongolia, and it makes no use of the vertical potential of its site.
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