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[Modulair]

please, i have a question:
at april 2012, when i expect to come to NY, do you know what 1WTC will look like????
will it have reached its 415 meters ?
will it have its antenna installed ??
thanks

[Fishman92]

Originally Posted by Modulair

please, i have a question:
at april 2012, when i expect to come to NY, do you know what 1WTC will look like????
will it have reached its 415 meters ?
will it have its antenna installed ??
thanks

nah, it'll probs be topped out, but the antenna is at least another years work.

[sw5710]

New steel in the next day or two. 857' to the splices on the 70th floor

[STR]

Originally Posted by Troubadour

The vaporous grease that would linger around the tower could be named "Freedom Fog," and the pigeons would grow obese licking it off the windows.

Which is great, because the people at Bon Appetite can kill said birds and write an annual issue on the best squab in the world.

Originally Posted by Traynor

No, for two reasons:
1) It's only a 4" gap, narrowing to only 3" at the window edge. Compare to roughly 10x11 feet of exhaust space by using 5 two foot wide window cut-outs. Not much of an exhaust, and build up would reduce that further, requiring extenisve maintainence on the outside of the building.

2) It will blow hot grease and soot on to the stainless steel corners. Not desirable either.

[patriotizzy]

Originally Posted by Troubadour

The vaporous grease that would linger around the tower could be named "Freedom Fog," and the pigeons would grow obese licking it off the windows.

lol, thanks for the humor

[sw5710]

What if it looks like the vents below the top.

[Traynor]

1) Drill through and duct to the floors above and below each corner, the number of spaces you need to achieve the square footage of venting. (You already rent several floors)

2) They have electronic and other high and low-tech filters to remove more than 90 percent of the suspended, airborne particulates.

3) Window washers will regularly give this spot of stainless steel, an extra scrub. I'm sure they won't mind.

[brian.odonnell20]

Originally Posted by Traynor

1) Drill through and duct to the floors above and below each corner, the number of spaces you need to achieve the square footage of venting. (You already rent several floors)

2) They have electronic and other high and low-tech filters to remove more than 90 percent of the suspended, airborne particulates.

3) Window washers will regularly give this spot of stainless steel, an extra scrub. I'm sure they won't mind.

maybe you should just let it go... your starting to sound like kanto trying to search for the highly-improbable-but-possible solutions of something you want... the vent really isn't gonna look that bad and no one's seeing it 95% of the time anyway. And why wouldn't the window washers mind? why would they want to do extra work for normal pay?

[Troubadour]

Conde Nast official rendering:


Freedom Bilge by troubadour, on Flickr

[brian.odonnell20]

Originally Posted by Troubadour

Conde Nast official rendering:


Freedom Bilge by troubadour, on Flickr

Now it'll be LEED certified

[Dac150]

I’m sure they’ll do everything to make it as aesthetically tolerable as possible.

[STR]

Originally Posted by Traynor

1) Drill through and duct to the floors above and below each corner, the number of spaces you need to achieve the square footage of venting. (You already rent several floors)

Which leaves them with a complicated system that not only defeats the original purpose of the vent (simplifying construction and inspection), but destroys valuable corner office space.

[JayPro]

Once again, with my prop dead horse, steel-toed combat boots, and genuine Five Points-era shillelagh personally notched by Monk McGinn himself, I respectfully wish to point out the following:

1. This vent will be not even one story in height and 25'' in length.
2. Said vent will be located no higher than the 40th floor, from where said vent will be mostly obscured by the surrounding high-rises.
3. Said vent is therefore small enough to have absolutely no ill effect on any panoramic view of the Tower from where this dreaded bane of the cityscape can possibly be detected, if at all.
4. There are as yet no--count them--no renderings of said vent; and on the strength of that fact alone, I continue to be astonished at the expressed degree of lamentation by way of speculation before even thing one has been publicized.
5. I am just as surprised and disappointed at the lack of faith being shown for those who will be tasked with finding a mutually acceptable resolution.

[Alliance]

Originally Posted by animatedmartian

Shiny Things

This is an excellent photo. It really puts the cladding it the best light I've seen.

[CoolCzech]

Originally Posted by JoePDX

Yeah. smokes gonna come "billowing" out and 9/11 family members will go into shock and faint out right on the memorial plaza from the impact it has on them. LOL (Sitting waiting for horrific rendering of smoke billowing out of vents...anyone?)

I'm sure the grieving widows and children appreciate the humor, lame as it is.
Honestly, they could serve up — on a shingle and there would always be somebody outrageously outraged that people took exception to it

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