March 24, 20179 yr Anyone see this yet? Pretty cool concept: The incredible U-shaped New York skyscraper is unveiled | Daily Mail Online
March 24, 20179 yr Scary. :lol2: For sure! Not just the elevator either! That tall skinny building looks like it could blow over. Cool looking, but I would wait a few years to go inside.
March 24, 20179 yr I'm still trying to figure out how that elevator would work. Similar to the STL. arch but updated I would suspect.
March 24, 20179 yr I'm still trying to figure out how that elevator would work. They generally run on rails versus on a piston or cables.
March 24, 20179 yr For sure! Not just the elevator either! That tall skinny building looks like it could blow over. Cool looking, but I would wait a few years to go inside. I'm with you...it seems awfully skinny for being as tall as it is. It's going to be one of those buildings that takes a little getting used to looking at.
March 24, 20179 yr I'm with you...it seems awfully skinny for being as tall as it is. It's going to be one of those buildings that takes a little getting used to looking at. That was my other concern. Does it fit with the surrounding buildings? I still hate that swoosh building they put in Covington. Doesn't fit in the surrounding architecture. Hope you weren't one of the people involved in building that one.
March 24, 20179 yr That was my other concern. Does it fit with the surrounding buildings? I still hate that swoosh building they put in Covington. Doesn't fit in the surrounding architecture. Hope you weren't one of the people involved in building that one. Haha, nope. You're good
March 24, 20179 yr That was my other concern. Does it fit with the surrounding buildings? I still hate that swoosh building they put in Covington. Doesn't fit in the surrounding architecture. Hope you weren't one of the people involved in building that one. When the Ascent first was built in Covington I wasn't sure what I thought of it, yet previous to it being there I often felt that Covington was possibly locking itself into a bronze color scheme with the newer hi-rises in Covington's small, but growing young skyline, all being bronze or brownish. I initially got the color tie-in with the bridge, as it is officially named "The Ascent at Roebling's Bride" and thought that it could only help open doors for future development to vary from once again being bronze, but it wasn't until I observed the Covington Skyline from the vantage point of Mehring Way & Joe Nuxhall Way right on the riverfront next to the Great American Ball Park that I really got it. From that angle you can see where the blue sweeping cables on the Roebling Bridge match the sweeping nature of the Ascent almost in unison. In addition to this matching parallel, the blue sky also becomes a player in the whole look especially on brilliant blue sky days, matching the blue building and blue bridge in color, while also being a vantage point that works well for the photographer's or artist's eye, and tourists post cards of the Covington Skyline. From there it becomes apparent what the vision of Architect Daniel Libeskind was... (Libeskind is the architect of the New World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City) ...and how it gives Covington's Skyline a distinctive original personality, much like the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Now that I've seen it from that angle, I can't unsee it and how it does actually work. I've taken others to the vantage point as well and watched them have the "Ah ha moment" regarding the structure, when originally they too didn't know what to think of it. Even from various other angles the building is interesting simply because it looks different from just about any angle you're looking at it from. I do think too that it has also accomplished what I had hoped that it would, and that now Covington's future development can expand with variation outside of the bronze look they were locking themselves into before the arrival of the Ascent.
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