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I agree with Andrew S. This is not a place for building anything , a tower or even a pavilion. Take the original premise or the typical modernist tower, a vertical city freeing the ground. Well in this example the tower is the existing one (by IM Pei) and the ground is about to be built on. That's like the post modern colloquial expression- taking a s... where you eat.
Ok these people (NYU professors who live there) don't eat there, but they come out of their buildings to a courtyard, an expected & necessary scenario with a tower what with the reason for a true modernists' reason for a tower existing- freeing up the ground etc..

This is by no means a rant against Grimshaw, we all have to earn a living and the firm has done quite a good job fitting the clients requirements onto the site/ courtyard to an existing building.

On another note, the comment about Manhattan & tall buildings. Let's not forgot that this is the very area that Jane Jacobs lived in and was motivated to put pen to paper to stop Robert Moses from doing his thing, probably building a tower in an existing tower's courtyard.