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PIZ · #**1801** Posted **Sep 17, 2007, 6:40 PM**

Sorry, but I feel this is not the the building I expected. I honestly "Hate" the design! I loved the first design, and understand they changed it because of being sued, but we need a memorial that looks like a memorial from miles and miles away (as the first design)! It's just an average looking building; very very sad! I honestly feel that the owner of this property is just thinking about him and him only! The person incharge of this should be ashamed of him-self!

37TimPPG · #**1802** Posted **Sep 17, 2007, 6:44 PM**

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Uhhhh......what?

I didn't do a very good job of explaining myself. I meant complicated in the fact that you have multiple groups with conflicting interests: firefighters, police, surviving family members, business interests and the politicians. Everything gets screwed up when the damn politicians enter the picture!

I am glad things are going well but I have to wonder how much further along things would be if there was a united front with a clear plan from the beginning?

Daquan13 · #**1803** Posted **Sep 17, 2007, 7:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by 37TimPPG

Patience! This is the most complicated construction project in history (??) taking place. That being said, I agree with you about the construction being late and wanting to see substantial progress. Hopefully by this time next year the steel will start to soar to the sky.

Umm, as a matter of fact, and according to the officials, more steel is to be delivered to Ground Zero on or near year's end, and before or by late winter or early spring, the steel should at least have sprouted or start to spout above street level.

This would be for the infrastructure. The steel for the actual tower itself should start coming before or by next summer sometime.

So far, the tower's construction timetable is operating on or near schedule as planned.

spwelan · #**1804** Posted **Sep 17, 2007, 10:50 PM**

what about a crown like this
do you think this looks better?

Aleks · #**1805** Posted **Sep 17, 2007, 11:04 PM**

I'm sorry if you made this but...EWW that would not look better. It looks fine the way it is.

Dac150 · #**1806** Posted **Sep 17, 2007, 11:33 PM**

Thats pushing it a litte. Too much going on with a crown like that. I think it is fine the way it is.

37TimPPG · #**1807** Posted **Sep 18, 2007, 2:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dac150

Thats pushing it a litte. Too much going on with a crown like that. I think it is fine the way it is.

It almost looks like the shape of the World Series Trophy

Dalton · #**1808** Posted **Sep 18, 2007, 4:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by 37TimPPG

It almost looks like the shape of the World Series Trophy

I was thinking "Wonder Woman's tiara" myself.

knarfor · #**1809** Posted **Sep 18, 2007, 5:04 AM**

Did Freedom Tower just win the Miss America Pageant? I know I have been gone for a while, but I never expected this...

newstl2020 · #**1810** Posted **Sep 18, 2007, 5:25 AM**

Why not just scrap the circle all together? IMO this would look much much better with the spire only. The circle looks tacky and out of place in this tower, as the rest of the building relies on straight lines creating triangular shapes near the top.

Raraavis · #**1811** Posted **Sep 18, 2007, 7:14 PM**

I know we are all bored waiting for this tower to rise but leave the design alone. We had five years to bitch about the design and now it is done. The design is OK and it is really really tall that's enough for me.

kingsdl76 · #**1812** Posted **Sep 18, 2007, 9:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by spwelan

what about a crown like this
do you think this looks better?

I think that would look pretty sweet.....good job man.

RockMont · #**1813** Posted **Sep 18, 2007, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Raraavis

I know we are all bored waiting for this tower to rise but leave the design alone. We had five years to bitch about the design and now it is done. The design is OK and it is really really tall that's enough for me.

Agreed. All the bitching about those previous two or three previous putrid travesties, is what resulted in this one, and it is excellent. Initially I would have liked to have the twin towers back, but that was partly due to those ugly buildings that, that Leibeskind nightmare came up with. Gone and good riddance. Thank God for major favours.

SonnyinMiami · #**1814** Posted **Sep 19, 2007, 8:02 AM**

That Crown is the Perfect Touch..., It helps the FT taper into it's spire nicely..., think ESB.

Daquan13 · #**1815** Posted **Sep 19, 2007, 10:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by spwelan

what about a crown like this
do you think this looks better?

I think that crown looks nice up there also, but if they DON'T put it there, it won't make me like the tower any less.

johnandahalf · #**1816** Posted **Sep 19, 2007, 1:10 PM**

I love NYC and I love skyscrapers, but this building is AWFUL with or without the tiara. Building anything less than a massive world-class skyscraper with cutting-edge design is taking the chicken-sh!t route. Saying "we don't want the new WTC to be a target" is like saying "I got this black eye when I ran into the door." Bullsh!t. Your batterer knows they've influenced, if not controlled, the design. Who wins? Not freedom.

kingsdl76 · #**1817** Posted **Sep 19, 2007, 3:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by johnandahalf

I love NYC and I love skyscrapers, but this building is AWFUL with or without the tiara. Building anything less than a massive world-class skyscraper with cutting-edge design is taking the chicken-sh!t route. Saying "we don't want the new WTC to be a target" is like saying "I got this black eye when I ran into the door." Bullsh!t. Your batterer knows they've influenced, if not controlled, the design. Who wins? Not freedom.

True dat........

37TimPPG · #**1818** Posted **Sep 19, 2007, 3:41 PM**

Just checked out the construction web cam. The FT core is coming along quite nicely

RockMont · #**1819** Posted **Sep 19, 2007, 3:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by 37TimPPG

Just checked out the construction web cam. The FT core is coming along quite nicely

What is the website for the construction webcam?

Ghost · #**1820** Posted **Sep 19, 2007, 4:57 PM**

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/groundzero/
Go to High Definition Webcam at left.