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Originally Posted by O-tacular
I think by 'contemporary needs and taste' they mean maximum leasable floorspace which always translates to boxy and fat and boring.
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Foster's original design, for the most part, was a more straightforward, and traditional (meaning older) design, once you get over the "diamonds", and nobody was going to lease space up there.
But if you look at what is being built and leased today, that's not it, so of course they'll have to redo it. They can put a crown on top of anything.
We know that the tower will fall in height somewhere between the Freedom Tower and tower 3. That much is given, we just don't know what an updated design will bring.
But we don't have to fantasize about the two, we have FOSTER and BIG designed towers rising head to head on the west side right now, with all of the modern amenities.
