NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS - Page 240

CHAPINM1 · #**4781** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 12:36 AM**

Nice thing about this complex is that design changes can be made quite swiftely! I'd be willing to bet that the observatory may be moved to higher floors including the roof...

NYguy · #**4782** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 5:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by talltowers08

Nyguy do you think they will make a program about the building of 1WTC they done a program about the construction of the shanghai wfc

I'm sure there will be multiple WTC rebuilding documentation.

NYguy · #**4783** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 5:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by CHAPINM1

Nice thing about this complex is that design changes can be made quite swiftely! I'd be willing to bet that the observatory may be moved to higher floors including the roof...

That would be nice. As it was, the broadcasters had the top two floors (at least in an earlier plan). If they don't decide to move back to the site, it will free up more space up there, for sure. I get the feeling we haven't heard the last from them though.

NYguy · #**4784** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 5:37 AM**

morrongiello, April 9

CoolCzech · #**4785** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 12:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

I'm sure there will be multiple WTC rebuilding documentation.

Probably the best one is the ongoing project filming the construction 24/7, from the first moment actual reconstruction commenced right thru the completion of the very last bit of work before the new WTC is 100 percent done. That will make one awesome piece of high-speed footage

CoolCzech · #**4786** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 12:27 PM**

Regarding the broadcasters, there is a disconnect between their current position that the ESB and Times Square 4 suffice to meet their broadcast needs, given digital broadcasting technology, and their previous stated need to build a 2,000 foot broadcast tower of their own. What, they never heard that broadcasting was going digital?

I suspect that this is all about staking a negotiating position...

NYguy · #**4787** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 2:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by CoolCzech

What, they never heard that broadcasting was going digital?

That was one of the issues discussed earlier, during the lease negotiations. That led some to speculate that the spire might not get built. But the spire itself is a design element meant to mark 1,776 ft, so broadcasters or not, the spire will be built. Maybe the design will be altered again from what we last saw:

Nei!l · #**4788** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 7:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by talltowers08
Nyguy do you think they will make a program about the building of 1WTC they done a program about the construction of the shanghai wfc

I'm not Nyguy but I'm sure you will find this interesting.

http://www.wtc.com/media/videos/Completing%20the%20Vision=col=%20The%20Design

A-K O.G. · #**4789** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 8:32 PM**

shows like modern marvels, build it bigger, extreme engineering ect. i'm sure will eat this project up..

Puzzlecraft · #**4790** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 8:47 PM**

If the antenna and its dorky base go, I like to see it replaced with something like a really big illuminated great rhombihexahedron built on the roof, in keeping with the octagonal / eight sided motif of the building, and then an elegant eight sided spire from there reaching up to 1776 ft.

Indescribable · #**4791** Posted **Apr 10, 2009, 8:48 PM**

The bottom of the spire now looks like a set of stadium lights.

CHAPINM1 · #**4792** Posted **Apr 11, 2009, 4:04 AM**

An outdoor observatory could easily be built around the upper portion of the building that would consist of the base of the spire. Look at the Empire State Building's observatory and how it goes around the parameters of the floor it's on.

QuarterMileSidewalk · #**4793** Posted **Apr 11, 2009, 4:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by Indescribable

The bottom of the spire now looks like a set of stadium lights.

That's about the most impressive set of microwave transmitters I've ever seen...

NYguy · #**4794** Posted **Apr 11, 2009, 11:17 AM**

I like that version of the spire better than I like this one.

tse.

MercurySky · #**4795** Posted **Apr 11, 2009, 7:09 PM**

The new design looks worse or at least the drawing on the right does.

Dac150 · #**4796** Posted **Apr 11, 2009, 7:30 PM**

Must there be that many trees......

J.M. · #**4797** Posted **Apr 11, 2009, 7:46 PM**

Dont know if anybody posted this yet but I found this site and features alot of images with the new WTC included, just wanted to share

http://www.77hudson.com/

kfunck1 · #**4798** Posted **Apr 11, 2009, 8:23 PM**

I just got finished reading about 3 months of this thread, and just wanted to express my gratitude towards all of the photographers. The scale of this project is absolutely staggering, and I constantly find myself in awe. Its pretty awesome to have history chronicled with super hi-def cameras too, btw.

canadate · #**4799** Posted **Apr 11, 2009, 9:42 PM**

I'm sick and tired of everyone complaining like little kids..I mean, most of you people are probably older than me...No one here is in charge of this project so JUST DEAL WITH IT!! Stop acting like a bunch of children. This The Freedom Tower or One World Trade Center (or whatever you want to call it) is nothing less than amazing...be happy with what you're getting.