Zaha Hadid Architects/Jared Kushner Unveils Monumental Skyscraper Project for NYC

[brooklynite]

Zaha Hadid Architects, the London-based architectural firm formerly helmed by the late, great Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, has just released images of a super tall skyscraper proposed for Midtown Manhattan.

The project is sited at 666 Fifth Avenue and is being developed by Kushner Companies – owned by the family of Jared Kushner, senior advisor to Donald Trump and husband to the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump.

http://www.highsnobiety.com/2017/03/25/zaha-hadid-architects-666-fifth-avenue-nyc/

I dunno; building a tower bigger than Daddy's, just down the street?

[Blues Heron]

1. looks like a nose hair trimmer

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. 666 Fifth Avenue?

The address is perfect.

[brooklynite]

4. In fairness, Kushner is Jewish and doesn't believe in that Book of Revelation stuff...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Nor do I, but he certainly must have heard of it.

You'd think he might at least recognize that some might find the address a bit off-putting.

[brooklynite]

17. No - there's been a large office building there for decades.

This ain't the Bible Belt.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. Still, with a Trumpazoid involved it's a whole lot easier

to make Mark of the Beast comments.

[CrispyQ]

15. Neither do I, but I still think Trump is the Antichrist.

[bettyellen]

31. 668- Neighbor of the Beast !

Saw that grafitti when I was in Irleand, lol

[WinkyDink]

3. Is there no end to the Freudian messes that comprise the Trump-Kushners?

[NightWatcher]

5. Why not just get a Porche like most middle aged guys who feel inferior

[The Wielding Truth]

6. 666. OMG. Again, I see Trump climbing on the devil's ladder.

[JHan]

7. Just what we need, more dicks in Manhattan.

Pretty dick tho.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Who's financing this thing?

It can't be any foreign money, can it? Or is Kushner immune from ethics rules?

[brooklynite]

16. Funny you should ask...

Senate intelligence committee to ask Kushner if he tried to get 666 Fifth financing during meeting with Russian banker

Senate investigators in Washington are planning to ask Jared Kushner if he sought additional financing for 666 Fifth Avenue during a meeting with a Russian banker in December.

The Senate Intelligence Committee told the White House last month that it wanted to question Kushner about meetings he set up with Russian ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak, the New York Times reported. It’s part of a broader look into the administration and its possible ties to Russia.

The White House has acknowledged that Kushner met with Kislyak at Trump Tower in December. Kushner later met with Sergey N. Gorkov, head of the Vnesheconombank, a bank whose board is controlled by members of Vladimir Putin’s government and has been used to bail out oligarchs and fund pet projects.

At the time of the meetings, Kushner had not stepped down from his position as CEO of Kushner Companies, and was trying to attract investors to inject money into the trophy building. During the same period, he was negotiating with Anbang Insurance Group to redevelop the office tower, which Kushner Companies said could leave the building valued at either $7 billion or $12 billion. (TRD has questioned the economics of the potential redevelopment, and questioned if a deal would really close.)

https://therealdeal.com/2017/03/27/senate-intelligence-committee-to-ask-kushner-if-he-tried-to-get-666-fifth-financing-during-meeting-with-russian-banker/

[joeybee12]

9. Is that a Lady Gillette?

[greymattermom]

10. Is this joke?

That building is gross. Even the trees are at the right place to complete the image.

[Warpy]

12. Where's the strap? nt

[hatrack]

13. This is from a parody site, right?

[superpatriotman]

14. Please don't drag Zaha Hadid's good name through this

She was one of the history's best architects and visionaries.

[BeyondGeography]

18. Another breadstick

These buildings are dreary. And all they do is make the city even more unaffordable and corrupt with mega 8-figure price points that only thieves can pay.

[MGKrebs]

19. In January it was reported that he divested that property.

“Mr. Kushner divested his equity interest in 666 Fifth Avenue, and has no role in the management or operations of the property,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters."
https://therealdeal.com/2017/01/31/jared-kushner-sells-stake-in-666-fifth-avenue/

I guess that was less than completely honest.

[Polly Hennessey]

20. It looks like a giant

middle-finger to god.

[Vinca]

21. And the proposed name must be the Dildo Building.

[The Big Ragu]

22. It has an UFO docking bay

for our Reptilian Overlords.

[Fla Dem]

23. OK. I thought this was a parody site. A giant dildo on 5th Avenue? No way this gets approved.

[brooklynite]

24. As long as it's within the zoning limits, City has no voice on design aesthetics

[Fla Dem]

29. WOW! Well I'll bet a lot of rich 5th avenue folks might just have some thoughts about it.

Or maybe not. I might be expecting too much from them.

[jpak]

25. Some poor cactus just got spray painted silver!!11

[crazycatlady]

26. This is why he let his precious Ivanka marry him

[luvMIdog]

27. It looks like a crystal baseball bat on a base

[GeorgeGist]

28. Another phallic symbol of boring brains.

[MrScorpio]

30. What a ridiculous looking piece of shit

[tanyev]

33. Um, Jared's a secret devotee of the Egyptian sky goddess and he feels bad about her lonely milennia?

I mean really, WTF?