@PuyoPuyi: Actually the following statistics may suprise you:
Greater Tokyo Metro: 32,000,000 Greater New York City: 25,000,000 Greater Los Angeles: 21,000,000 |
Stupid.
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that said, i have also seen ny listed with a metro area as small as 11 mil people, which would have to have some strict boundaries. |
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Oh, and in regards to above, we would not be jumping for joy if this building was proposed in America. Just because we are from America doesn't mean we don't want other places to succeed. I LOVE the Burj Dubai, and jumped for joy at that. This building is MUCH, MUCH uglier. |
Does it have nuclear powered elevators?
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Hey... Most of all these buildings are thought up in the States anyway. (For all the people that care about the WTB's being built outside the US)
(i.e. S.O.M. designs for Burj Dubai) I like to think of these building like the I.S.S. (International Space Station) We are working with other countries, together, to form something awesome. |
Those numbers are probably lower than those that include the Non-Census residents who don't participate.
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http://www.jochenhertweck.com/upload/ny_jeddahtower.jpg |
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Ada Louise Huxtable wrote a article for the NY Times practically gushing over Yamasaki's ability to design a massive building complex, yet retain a sense of intimacy. Less than a decade later Huxtable wrote the oft-quoted line of "These are big buildings, but they are not great architecture." Ultimately, critics hated the complex. It was too detailed for the modernists, and too basic for the traditionalists. It's unique Gothic-Modernist design didn't fit into any school neatly, so it became an architectural anathema. With the new urbanist movement, its superblock was widely criticized for cutting off the neighborhoods (some of which would not have even existed had it not been from the excavation of said super block) from each other, and that the WTC was essentially designed as a world unto itself, with people riding into it by train and never leaving until it was time to clock out and go home. Though that argument ignores the fact that prior to the WTC, there wasn't much to see or do in the immediate vicinity of the Trade Center. |
Thanks for that image, Raptor. Illustrates my point very well.
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Raptor - Great work on the image! However, did you think of putting the Jeddah skyline with the tower next to yours of manhattan? I'm assuming that would like even more utterly rediculous and outta place. Maybe not though...
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Newstl, I see your point, yet I still stand by mine, though I know what you're saying. By the way, thanks for being a good considerable debater, unlike some pain in the ass noobs that think their opinion is the pinnacle of creation (and have to prove it with multiple smilies in every post).
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Right back at ya Lecom.
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Speaking of Raptor's drawing, something as tall as to the second line of the tower would be a great addition to Downtown, especially coupled with the new WTC.
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Myth anyone?
This "proposal" has been on Pickard Chilton's website for a few years:
http://www.pickardchilton.com/pagProject.aspx?Group='RESEARCH'&ID=41 It's very clear that it is simply a research project into new ideas for 21st century urban demands. I'm not sure how it turned into a supposed proposal for Saudi Arabia. |
Sure to make all the women want to move to Jeddah. ;)
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I wish these threads weren't allowed
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