This is beautiful but scary. A little too much form, and not enough function. 60 stories @ 14' makes this over 800'. I highly doubt this design tested well in a wind tunnel... good thing NYC doesn't get typhoons or tornadoes.

Even Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (pivotal example of cantilever design) is only 2 floors tall and even it had to have a steel support beam added years later otherwise the porch would have fallen into the creek... I'm sure building materials are better these days, but contractors are always cutting corners...

The jenga description is perfect though, just a question of when it'll collapse. I give it 40-50 years. (or much sooner should a suicide bomber strapped with C4 be taking a tour of one of the apartments on the lower floors...) But then again the security better be pretty damn tight if your apt is between $3.5 million and $33 million...

google maps location of the building here . Be sure to check street view.

Also, they'll probably enact a tenant agreement saying that residents can only buy Apple computers

lots of information and floorplans here - http://www.56leonardtribeca.com
site photo from october here , somehow I doubt they'll finish by 2010...

An overview of various clips ("categorized" by genre) from last year I liked because of the clip and the accompanying music:

Indie pop
http://www.videosift.com/video/Eccentric-night-out-Risn-Murphy-Movie-Star-2008

Indie rock
*http://www.videosift.com/video/MGMT-Electric-Feel-2008DancingDrinking-from-the-Moon
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fleet-Foxes-White-Winter-Hymnal
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Notwist-Where-In-This-World-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Picture-Of-Our-Torn-Up-Praise-2008-by-Phosphorescent

Electro
http://www.videosift.com/video/Le-le-Breakfast-video-by-Parra
http://www.videosift.com/video/Le-Le-Ich-Clacque-dich
http://www.videosift.com/video/Slagsm-lsklubben-Sponsored-By-Destiny
http://www.videosift.com/video/Dim-Chris-No-Sucker-Official-Tecktonik-anthem
http://www.videosift.com/video/Necro-Stallar-Only-Moon-2008

Disco
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hercules-Love-Affair-Time-Will-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Geneva-Jacuzzi-Love-Caboose-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Rubies-I-Feel-Electric-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Moby-Disco-Lies
http://www.videosift.com/video/Cutting-edge-monster-party-Denki-Groove-Mononoke-Dance

Hiphop/rnb
*http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Tongue-feat-Dudley-Perkins-Animal-Crackers
http://www.videosift.com/video/Rapping-former-warchild-Emmanuel-Jal-Warchild-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/T-Pain-Ft-Ludacris-Chopped-N-Skrewed-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Kanye-West-Love-Lockdown

Drum'n bass
*http://www.videosift.com/video/Pendulum-Propane-Nightmares-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Squarepusher-Planet-Gear-2008

Various electronica/rock
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bomb-the-Bass-Fuzzbox-2008
*http://www.videosift.com/video/Moby-feat-Aynzil-and-the-419-Squad-Alice-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pivot-In-The-Blood-2008
http://www.videosift.com/video/Portishead-Machine-Gun

Mink I agree that Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle in WWII. Was it the ultimate deciding factor for ending the war... err .... no.

If you ever played Axis and Allies as a kid like I did then you would have at times played the Russians in the battles of Stalingrad, Berlin and Prussia. Russia always seemed to win because of the advantage of vast numbers of troops even though they had a disadvantage in weaponry supply.

Stalingrad was a pivotal battle that is undisputable. Did the war end as a result of toppling the Nazi regime>? No.

CP you are fixated on this idea that there were other battles. OH REALLY? I THINK EVERYONE FUCKING AGREES WITH YOU.

Were there any battles more bloody or pivotal than Stalingrad... err.... no.

Are americans famous for their "educated class" forming the majority of the population? Famous for having geography and history scholars roaming the streets? Er... no.

Can we calm down now? Nobody dissed your grandfather.

Amazing song and one of the pivotal albums of the nineties for me. But I can't upvote it. Not that i'm a snob about videos here, i'm not, but there are TONS of songs i'd adore to post and never do because they don't have a good enough video for them. At least a montage - at the very least...

>> ^HaricotVert:
She definitely deserves to be clobbered...


Ask and ye shall receive!
http://www.videosift.com/video/Terry-Tate-Meets-Sarah-Palin

"Pivot and go onto another subject" = dodge the question. Wow, I know what this *femme reads. Orwell.

Someone really needed to yell at Frank for his pivotal role in creating this mess. Bill is a tool, but Frank really had it coming - he's more responsible for it than probably any other single person besides Raines.

I want to downvote for her actual response but upvote for the replies here so far. AGH, WHAT DO I DO?! I'm going to get clobbered either way!

Maybe I can pivot my way out of this by winking...

;]

Hey Sarah, Americans hate when politicians "pivot" we want you to answer the fucking question!

>> ^Fjnbk:
oF coUrse, beCause everybody Knows that big girls completelY ignOre and dismiss emotional and sad stories so they can pivot into some lUnacy about being mavericks.

Oh I see what you did there!

That's all she COULD talk about, she doesn't know anything else.

In reply to this comment by tagomi77:
I'm so sick of hearing the word maverick... I'm never going to watch Top Gun again, which is probably all for the best anyways. Oh, I'm glad I wasn't the only one that saw her consistently side stepping into typical republican rhetoric.

In reply to this comment by Fjnbk:
oF coUrse, beCause everybody Knows that big girls completelY ignOre and dismiss emotional and sad stories so they can pivot into some lUnacy about being mavericks.

I'm so sick of hearing the word maverick... I'm never going to watch Top Gun again, which is probably all for the best anyways. Oh, I'm glad I wasn't the only one that saw her consistently side stepping into typical republican rhetoric.

In reply to this comment by Fjnbk:
oF coUrse, beCause everybody Knows that big girls completelY ignOre and dismiss emotional and sad stories so they can pivot into some lUnacy about being mavericks.

oF coUrse, beCause everybody Knows that big girls completelY ignOre and dismiss emotional and sad stories so they can pivot into some lUnacy about being mavericks.

>> ^Aemaeth:
hmm, I think we sometimes forget that the VP doesn't matter all that much. They don't exactly play a pivotal role in government functions. How much of an impact they have is conditional on the President they serve.


True, except for the fact that when something happens to the president, the VP is next in charge.

But nothing's going to happen to a 71-year-old with four encounters with cancer, eh?

hmm, I think we sometimes forget that the VP doesn't matter all that much. They don't exactly play a pivotal role in government functions. How much of an impact they have is conditional on the President they serve.