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[SP]Neo · #**3101** Posted **Jun 14, 2008, 11:22 PM**

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Five office towers, a Sept. 11 memorial, a transit hub and a performing center are planned at the 16-acre site.

5 towers??????

CoolCzech · #**3102** Posted **Jun 14, 2008, 11:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by [SP]Neo

5 towers??????

Yeah, including the plan for a new tower where the Deutsche Bank building ruin currently stands. Technically, it won't really be inside the "16 acres" of Ground Zero.

America 117 · #**3103** Posted **Jun 15, 2008, 4:09 AM**

isent there 7 differnt towers?

photoLith · #**3104** Posted **Jun 15, 2008, 4:31 AM**

Theres still a tower that needs to be torn down? what?

NYC4Life · #**3105** Posted **Jun 15, 2008, 7:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by photolitherland

Theres still a tower that needs to be torn down? what?

Besides Deutsche Bank building, BMCC's Fitterman Hall is also scheduled for demolition.

NYguy · #**3106** Posted **Jun 15, 2008, 12:04 PM**

From beginnings, to endings, to beginnings again...

It's the long climb back up...

2-TOWERS · #**3107** Posted **Jun 15, 2008, 2:14 PM**

So Much More Steel Used In The Original Towers, It Seems There Is Alot Less Steel For The New Tower, But All The Concrete And Rebar I Guess Make Up For It. Who Knows If The Twins Had Used Reg. Steel Beams Instead Of The Light Weight Trusses To Hold The Floor Plates Up, And The Core Was Protected With Concrete Instead Of Drywall. I Would Guess The Twins

Would Still Be Standing .

America 117 · #**3108** Posted **Jun 15, 2008, 2:39 PM**

i wish they would have done that with the twins too

NYC4Life · #**3109** Posted **Jun 15, 2008, 7:30 PM**

There sure was a whole lot of ugly looking peers in Lower Manhattan pre Battery Park City.

NYguy · #**3110** Posted **Jun 15, 2008, 8:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by NYC4Life

There sure was a whole lot of ugly looking peers in Lower Manhattan pre Battery Park City.

Although some of the site is on landfill, you can see how close it was to the river even then...

philvia · #**3111** Posted **Jun 16, 2008, 2:35 AM**

yea those older pictures are pretty crazy to me! the river so close! lol

NYC4Life · #**3112** Posted **Jun 16, 2008, 3:46 AM**

Yea amazing to think the slurry wall at the time was able to hold back the Hudson.

CGII · #**3113** Posted **Jun 16, 2008, 3:52 AM**

I'm still struck by how hauntingly beautiful the skeletal remains of the WTC were. I still kind of wish they could've been somehow preserved and incoporated into the memorials, but I suppose in the rush to safely search and excavate the site they needed to come down, and what's more, I suppose the image of the jaunted skeleton of the tower is too traumatising for the space...

NYguy · #**3114** Posted **Jun 16, 2008, 10:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by CGII

I still kind of wish they could've been somehow preserved and incoporated into the memorials, but I suppose in the rush to safely search and excavate the site they needed to come down, and what's more, I suppose the image of the jaunted skeleton of the tower is too traumatising for the space...

If I recall correctly, part of it was to be reassembled inside the memorial itself.

Dac150 · #**3115** Posted **Jun 16, 2008, 10:20 PM**

That would be pretty powerful if you're able to walk through those gothic arches. I hope that comes to be the case because I never had that pleasure.

larry141094 · #**3116** Posted **Jun 16, 2008, 11:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by CGII

I'm still struck by how hauntingly beautiful the skeletal remains of the WTC were. I still kind of wish they could've been somehow preserved and incoporated into the memorials, but I suppose in the rush to safely search and excavate the site they needed to come down, and what's more, I suppose the image of the jaunted skeleton of the tower is too traumatising for the space...

umm... yeah sure take the steel out to reasearch it and so on, BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO MELT IT ALL DOWN!! melting that steel was a crime, they needed to keep it all and fund ALOT more than what they did, Fact: 150,000 dollars was spent on the 9/11 investigation! vs 27 million for the JFK assasination and 58 million for the Bill Clinton affair!

jjk1103 · #**3117** Posted **Jun 16, 2008, 11:41 PM**

........Hi Guys ! ....I don't follow NYC too closely, when is this one due for completion ?

Kamatzu · #**3118** Posted **Jun 17, 2008, 12:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

If I recall correctly, part of it was to be reassembled inside the memorial itself.

Like the plan Donald Trump supported?

(You can see the old lobbies at the footprints of the old towers)

I thought they were going to put one or two tridents in the memorial, is this what you're talking about? Even though it would be infinitely sweeter if they somehow maintained alot more than just two.

EDIT: (Also, I just noticed that, in the picture of the skeleton that NYGuy posted, you can see an American flag at the top. Thought it was interesting.)

America 117 · #**3119** Posted **Jun 17, 2008, 1:12 AM**

they should of built that.
i like the freedom tower and all but i would still rather have the twins.

photoLith · #**3120** Posted **Jun 17, 2008, 2:30 AM**

If they did that, there would be no way in hell anyone would ever work in them and talk about people having panic attacks seeing those towers again, they would freak out as it would bring back all the memories of lost ones every single freakin day.