Are you guys serious? That building is such an eyesore and a harbinger of bad things to come (if they haven’t already) on the Lower East Side.

Style that dates itself quickly, going from blandly quirky to hideous in a couple of years. Maybe in 50 years, it will have a retro kitschy appeal, like geodesic domes and the original architecture of Brasilia. But right now, it just leaves me hoping for IKEA to open up an architectural firm. I want to see IKEA tract homes and office parks!

I want unobstructed form. I hate doodads.

I agree goes against all feng shui principles. To many cutting angles way to much of one material {Metal}.Hope it rusts to crap not a fan

this guy has few creds in the nyc progressive art/music scene owing in some large part to the role this kinda lower east side architectural over development plays in putting venues like the late lamented Tonic outta business…

& i can’t ride past this thing without expecting godzilla to show up…
in effect i wish he would show up, tear it up by it’s roots and toss it into the east river

imho the la villette stuff looks like crap also…

Hey, Wait, 11/26/10
New York is a great city made up of mostly bad buildings by stingy developers; Manhattan is still a young city as far as world cities go;
here in this blue building by Tschumi jammed into the Lower East Side is an extra-ordinary work that works at a high level of thinking – and feeling – about how good architecture can work in a critical context in a critically constructive way on a zillion levels. And the contradictions, the irony, the paradox of this tower is smart, witty, and even super punk, New York bitchy in its psycho-sexual way with its camouflage skin, its bending clunky but sexy body, and its pent-up urge to sing the blues. It will weather well and eventually melt into thin air.
Andrew MacNair

Bernard Tschumi is part of the problem and not the solution. His tenure at Columbia was questionable at best. And history will not be nice to this already dated building. I resent the fact I have to see this building everyday.

andrew is mad, or else an architect or architecture student, or worse yet an arch. teacher -where theory and gobledegook, ‘critical context, critically constructive.. on a zillion levels’ has supplanted building. Guattari would blush. oh save us from art and architecture stars and their arrogant ‘signatures’.. red scarves, round glasses.. only an era of corporate ego and corporate surplus wealth could spawn such ‘expressions’ that ignor the people who live in them and worse the people who pass them every day. what an eyesore in the lower east side. R. Piano said “We have a special responsibility. Our bad ideas don’t go away. We leave, but our edifices remain to become the body and daily life of the city.” (or something like that) This bloated, bad blue (it shames the cerulean sky behind it), old-before-it-was-completed, bastardized broadway boogey woogey is a daily offense. It has weathered horribly. I wish it would melt into air. But we know better.

The BLUE Residential Tower is positively wretched. Why must developers build taller than their neighbors? Why must they have complete disregard for the feel of the neighborhood? I guess I answered my own question: because it is not their neighbors or their neighborhood. They build and leave. It’s like having to look at the bad decision of a one night stand forevermore.

Residents are already replacing the blue glass with traditional clear because living in permanent blue-tint is psychologically draining. Take a look next time you pass by.
Its “super punk, New York bitchy in its psycho-sexual way” pales to anything Tonic would book on a slow Tuesday.

How about making a pink version and putting it in Chelsea?

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