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Originally Posted by Fluffybagel
Well it was because the original north tower's antennae was just an afterthought added on in the late 70s. This has been planned years ago, so like some other people, I'm confused why their only catching this "flaw " now.
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Well, some people still fail to understand that the reason the spire is included in the height at all is because it is an
architectural feature of the building, and that has always been the case here. As I've said before, the spire has been the focal point of the design (and battles over it) since the conception of the master plan, long before the design of the tower itself. This is not just some random "pole" stuck on the top of the building, and shouldn't be treated as such, because if that were the case, they could have gone in an entirely different direction with the design. It's what we were made to believe, and I'm sticking with that.
Now, Durst is taking a lot of heat for these changes, but the Port Authority has played with the notion of changing the design of the spire before. The one thing that was commited to was that there
will be a spire. Durst will use the antenna at the "other" Conde Nast building as a marketing "package" together with this one. That's really what it's about. They aren't architects, and couldn't care less about what it looks like, as long as there is something up there that fits the guidelines for the spire reaching 1,776 ft. It's too bad, really.
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/03/...nna-for-1-wtc/
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...the Durst Organization has gotten the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey on board to install a radio and television broadcast antenna inside the building’s spire.
The antenna would be located inside a slimmer, less conical spire than initially planned that would save $20 million but drew criticism from the project’s architects, Skidmore Owings & Merrill.
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I don't know what the new spire will look like, but I don't need to see it to know I don't want a "slimmer" (smaller) spire. But that's the way its played.
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