Harlem Bespoke: Where the heck are these Harlem towers located? Real estate blogs like
YIMBY have been reporting about this architectural rendering and saying that it is at Park Avenue and 125th Street because of the the elevated trains station but nothing matches up. Anyone who lives in the neighborhood (or just would even lift a finger to use Google Maps) would know that none of the tenement buildings in the architectural image exists at this intersection. Then there is the absence of the landmark Corn Exchange building which is one of the most recognizable structures by the Metro North train station and has a distinct mansard roof. Another notable, tall prewar office building is on the other side of Park and is not in sight.
Another glaringly absent feature is the fact that the
actual train station under the platform is missing. All those surrounding residential buildings also do not fit in with this particular corner view to any degree and the angle apparently is looking west which incorrectly has a wall of tenements that blocks off the view. This does not correlate with anything since it would be a wall of housing projects at the far end if this perspective was not fake. If the view was looking east, then the bridge across the Harlem River would be in plain site so that can not be an option. At best, this is some fantasy intern rendering testing out digital concept skills with no accountability to anything concrete.
HarlemBespoke.com 2021
This can not be the Broadway and 125th Street either because the subway arch is missing and the housing projects or the new Columbia University campus is non existent.
ReplyDeleteIt's a rendering, the "concept car" of buildings.
ReplyDeleteThis scale of architecture requires a bit of city planning so they would have to be more precise with the surroundings. More abstract rendering might not even have details for the structures in the area but they are always accurate place holders for the surrounding lots. This is not accurate to any lot or land allocations in the neighborhood.
DeleteThis could be a futuristic rendering of what's to come. Erasing all the 'untidy" buildings and people in the next 5 -10 years to make the area more "attractive" to people who are not from NYC.
ReplyDeletecolumbia manhattanville campus on the other side of the 1 train and NJ across the Hudson river is what you are looking at
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