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Originally Posted by Dense_Electric
Alright, I'm disappointed about the lack of radome clading as much as any of you, but you know one thing that's not going to improve the situation? Bitching and moaning about it on an internet forum. At this point, it is what it is, make peace with it.
EDIT: Furthermore, we won't know if it's officially an antenna or a spire until CTBUH calls it. You can personally consider it whatever you'd like, but you don't get to decide how they're going to rule.
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Originally Posted by ThatOneGuy
Holy hell, are you people still arguing about the spire?
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Originally Posted by Otie
^If you folks think the mast is aesthetically unpleasant by itself, then reserve your complains to yourselves, this thing will eventually be filled with antennas and other broadcast equipment attached to the upper sections of the mast. The comm platform ring will house only microwave drums, whip antennas and similar dishes, while the rest of emissive broadcast equipment will go higher up.
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Originally Posted by 06hdfxdwg
What you have right now is a mast. It's been designed,ordered,delivered and has started to be boomed up onto the structure,so deal with it. I swear,sometimes it's like listening to a bunch of little kids who didn't get that horse for Christmas. Say what you want about symbolism but nobody really cared that the Antenna mast on the old North Tower wasn't counted toward the height of the building. It is what it is and theres nothing you can do about it,so get past it already and just watch the damn thing go up. Geezus,enough already.
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I'll say this for you people who don't want to read anything negative about the mast going up: GET OVER IT.
It's the only thing rising on the tower now, and if you don't want to view people's opinions of it, then move on. Everyone else will
continue to voice their like or displeasure of it, and if you don't particularly agree with it, then don't. This isn't the only skyscraper going up in the world, and it certainly won't be the only one immune to criticism, no matter how many feelings it hurts. You will find that sometimes in life, there is room and opening for criticism. It's not all cheering. I hope that's a lesson learned.
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my opinion, the antenna should have been hidden, the way it was planned. The building was intended to have a spire - not an antenna. The broadcasters came onto the project
after the fact. David Childs had a lengthy battle with Libeskind over the spire, the one constant the building had to have in any design. Now, how some of you can't grasp that, I no longer care. But I think the entire affair over the spire is a disgrace, especially when it calls the building's height into question, which shouldn't even be on the table. This would NEVER have been allowed to happen 5 years ago, but as I said earlier, people have already forgotten the significance of this rebuilding, and there will be no outrage.
The best thing the CTBUH could do for this building is to rule the mast an antenna, and
not a spire. Because then the design won't be called into question, it would just be an antenna, same as was on top of the original complex - something hardly anyone noticed or cared about because it wasn't a reflection on the
design, and wasn't meant to be. In effect, it didn't exist.
http://www.ctbuh.org/TallBuildings/H...S/Default.aspx
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1. Height to Architectural Top
Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building, including spires, but not including antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment.
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