This building now officially has really bad karma. Who is going to call it home? We were walking buy on Saturday evening and were so shocked at how frickin' tall this thing was - completely out of scale to everything else - that we snapped a few pics. Little did we know that yesterday the top floor would cave in and take at least one life...
We were told by a friend who works across the street (and who is an architect) that he was amazed at how fast this thing was going up, something like a floor a week, faster than he expected. The teams of trucks and men pumping concrete up every day are constant on Spring street. Apparently, they may have been moving too fast.
We sincerely hope that the bad karma stops here and extend our deepest sympathies to the men injured yesterday.
© 2009 Apartment Therapy
I think construction deaths are more common than people think. Someone died during the construction of my building (on his own time though--several cases of beer after hours). It's dangerous business.
I think the Trump project in Chicago is plagued with real bad karma because they somehow managed to hit owners up for more money after they had already purchased. Don't know the exact details but it sounded pretty shifty.
view art's profile
an example of how developers push through projects that are inappropriate to a neighborhood and city officials let them do it -- at a speed that is scary. there are multiple buildings going up in the East 4th area -- it is going to look like mid-town soon...
view Kat1's profile
It's a vulgar piece of architecture being sold to vulgar foreign investors with vulgar amounts of overvalued currency perpetuating a vulgar real estate bubble. When it all comes out in the wash, and it will happen, this building will be a persistent reminder of the greed and irrational exuberance that marked this unfortunate time in our history.
view hejiranyc's profile
I totally agree with hejiranyc!
view Lourdes's profile
Trump = ass
view sammie2's profile
Like his hair. Lots of air and not much substance. I keep waiting for that piece on his head to collapse.
view austinjohn's profile
One of the many manifestations of the out of control ego and greed that is Trump.
view J's profile
My Girlfriends condo is next to The Trump in Chicago.
Recently- they announce the opening of the HOTEL with in the Trump Tower Chicago, and girlfriend asked- "how can they open a HOTEL? if the buildings till being built? Isnt that dangerous?Can't the upper floors collapse onto the the lower floors?"
and- what did MR. Manly Man say....
"No- honey- that'd be impossible- the City's engineers woulda thought of THAT".......
OK- I'll be eating my words now.....
(also- who will be "renting" (The Hoteling Concept of Luxury Living) out their Fancy-Schmancy Condos ?anyways....wouldn't that be a little....awkward?)
view ManofSteel's profile
bad karma? no, bad trump yes, another example of a zoning mistake and a developer who took advantage of the situation. the same thing happened at broadway and 99th street and now there are 2 buildings out of character with the neighborhood. the zoning laws just changed uptown and now buildings that tall can't be built there.
view patrik's profile