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New design for Freedom Tower
I like this new design a heck of a lot more than the old one. Story Quote:
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06-29-2005, 11:02 AM | #2 |
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I like this design a lot more.
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06-29-2005, 11:49 AM | #3 |
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I like it. Looks good.
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06-29-2005, 11:51 AM | #4 |
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The top is unnecessarily long. They just want to make people feel inadequate.
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06-29-2005, 11:57 AM | #5 |
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This looks good. It'll be nice to see the skyline with a giant tower once again.
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06-29-2005, 11:59 AM | #6 |
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I wish Bloomberg's idea had been taken more seriously; use the land for schools and parks.
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06-29-2005, 12:03 PM | #7 | |
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In that area? No way. That's a really, really prime area of real estate. Plus, anyone who is used to seeing the WTC when you drive to Manhattan or are trolling downtown, there just has to be a building there.
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06-29-2005, 12:04 PM | #8 | |
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Agreed.
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06-29-2005, 12:07 PM | #9 | |
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06-29-2005, 12:15 PM | #10 | |
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06-29-2005, 12:23 PM | #11 |
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I like it, but who in their right mind is going to lease out the top level floors based on past history. No way you'd get me to work above say floor 40.
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06-29-2005, 12:27 PM | #12 | |
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Agreed- this looks nice for a redesign. And, guys, stop trying to tell us how indistructable this building is in what seems to be telling people how it can't ever be knocked down. I bet if someone crashed a plane into it, it still falls over- we just have to make sure no more planes go crashing into it.
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06-29-2005, 12:29 PM | #13 | |
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It's a cool idea, but, really, it's not realistic in a monetary sense. SI
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06-29-2005, 12:49 PM | #14 |
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It looks expensive.
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06-29-2005, 12:50 PM | #15 | |
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06-29-2005, 12:50 PM | #16 | |
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The mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg, thought it was realistic. |
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06-29-2005, 12:56 PM | #17 | |
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I'll ignore the hideous "you didn't know the mayor of New York's name when I invoked it earlier in the thread" assumption and instead point out that I'm sure everything the mayor does has no political motivation behind it and is purely in the best interests of the people and city. SI
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06-29-2005, 12:58 PM | #18 |
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Do you think his friends call him "Mike" Bloomberg and not Michael?
How about Jordan and Jackson...do friends call them "Mike"?
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06-29-2005, 01:02 PM | #19 | |
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The phrasing was intead to point out out that the man who suggested the idea understands fiscal matters more than most of us on the board. |
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06-29-2005, 01:05 PM | #20 | |
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If he did make the suggestion to use it for schools and parks, I'm sure it was purely for political reasons. Bloomberg and anyone else with half a mind in NYC knows they need the property taxes (not to mention income and sales taxes - assuming they replace the underground mall) badly. |
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06-29-2005, 01:06 PM | #21 |
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Didn't Bloomberg suggest that all the citizens of New York City wear nametags in order to make it a friendlier place?
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06-29-2005, 01:25 PM | #22 |
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I like this design much better
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06-29-2005, 01:36 PM | #23 |
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Bring back Rudi, Bloomberg is an idiot.
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06-29-2005, 02:50 PM | #24 |
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If the top level height is the same as the old WTC (unless the observation deck is a few floors down like it is in the Sears Tower), that's going to be one hella-tall antenna at a bit over 400 feet. At one time the Sears Tower had a 350-foot antenna, but I'm not sure anymore who's got the tallest one now.
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06-29-2005, 02:52 PM | #25 | |
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06-29-2005, 10:27 PM | #26 |
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That building is huge! Looks very nice though.
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06-29-2005, 10:51 PM | #27 | |
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Good thing. The previous design was a colossal fuckin' eye-sore. Anyone who is called an "architect's architect" should not be allowed to have anything built. And don't get me started on this "function follows form" shit that is producing some of the ugliest buildings ever built by humans. |
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06-30-2005, 12:28 AM | #28 |
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Looks better. But it looks lonely... Needs a second tower.
So basically what we have learned here is that a "winning" design can be trashed and redone many times, removing every element of the design that played a great part in "winning" the design contest in the first place. This can be done without question, as long as the word "Freedom" is in the name and the height is 1776. To say anthing against this, or the many future redesigns must be unamerican... I work about two blocks away from the site. Build them back, but better than before. Restore the "Twin Towers" aspect, and in turn the skyline we all now greatly miss. And scrap the plans for a Civil Rights/Slavery/MLK museum incorporated into the memorial. (Personally, I'd like to see fountains incorporated into the memorial on the "footprints" of the towers that shoot 4 story strams of water into the sky, somewhat to resemble the towers from the ground. Also, the resulting mist would cool the area down greatly in the summer!
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06-30-2005, 06:13 AM | #29 | |
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Dude, you have NO idea how valuable a piece of real estate we're talking about. Get real, build a building, and move on. |
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06-30-2005, 06:16 AM | #30 | |
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I'm sure he said as much publicly while chuckling and saying "no fucking way" behind closed doors. It's easy to say stuff like that in public when you know it will make you sound good and that it has NOOOO chance of actually happening. |
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