Take the British artist Rachel Whiteread's water tower, cast in translucent resin.
The cross bars in the lighthouse's tower cast shadows that divide the projected light into segments framing the beam and presenting it with a contrast that seems more cinematic than real (not unlike when smoke occupies the beam of a flashlight on a camping trip making you feel as though you have somehow captured its elusive motion even if only for a second).
Not only are these new towers casting long shadows on Central Park; they are turning the New York skyline, for most of the 20th century a kind of ziggurat with the Empire State Building as its peak, into a jumble.
The Citicorp Building and other office towers cast shadows across streets.
Mr. Sloan shifted his sights westward, to Hell's Kitchen, where sparkling new residential towers cast shadows over low-lying 19th-century tenements.
With their serrated balconies sawing at the clouds, the Barbican towers cast an imposing presence on the skyline, bringing a dash of Blade Runner excitement to the City fringe.
It comes instead at a time when new condominium towers cast shadows on shuttered family-owned businesses, and new battlegrounds are drawn over gentrification, race and class in the formerly sleepy neighbourhoods of the city's outer boroughs.
Grade II listed | Use: Residential With their serrated balconies sawing at the clouds, the Barbican towers cast an imposing presence on the skyline, bringing a dash of Blade Runner excitement to the City fringe.
It was the end of an inaugural five-day voyage from Norfolk, Va., for the ship's official commissioning into the Navy fleet on Saturday, as well as an emotional "homecoming" for a vessel that was named for the state after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and has 7.5 tons of steel from the twin towers cast into its bow.
But in rural areas — wildfire terrain — so-called "boomer" towers cast warnings 20 miles outside the intended alert area.
