^ Please, not a discussion about the Twins. There are multiple threads for that.
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Originally Posted by sw5710
Where is 1,776' measured from. The lobby to the beacon or above the beacon at the top. They said today's lift was 75' tall.
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It won't really matter, because the lobby itself is about 5 ft above the north entrance. People who enter from that side will go up a flight of stairs to enter the lobby.
But all of that will come to light later when the true height figures are revealed.
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Originally Posted by Skyguy_7
If the entire spire is lit up like this, the light shows will be SPECTACULAR.
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Look to the Conde Nast antenna for an idea of what it will look like. Durst has previously said that the lighting of the 3 towers - BofA, Conde Nast, and Freedom would play off of each other.
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Originally Posted by franktko
As someone already suggested before, it seems like those guy wires on the mast are not necessary - since the entire thing is up now.
Maybe they were just needed if the radome would have been installed?
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They've been there since the beginning, before radome was being planned. There are fewer of them now though.
Early on it was thought that the number of wires would add to the spire's appearance.
Well, here we are the day after the tower has gone as high as it will go. Putting aside the discussion of how the thing looks for the moment, it was a significant
historical moment for the city and the country. Thanks to the media, we know have a counter-image to 9/11. A final piece going up instead of coming down.
And where in the aftermath of 9/11, the skyline looked scarred and broken, the city continued to build. First in Midtown, and then back Downtown, and then to Queens and Brooklyn
and even Jersey City. Overall, we have a better looking skyline than we did then, and as crazy as it may seem from looking at these photos, the best is yet to come. While the last
decade was talk of how slow the skyline was healing itself, the next decade will have us amazed at the changes we see. Eventually, things will simmer down for a while,
but its an amazing era to be alive in and to witness this.
Just an amazing and inspiring skyline.
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Photos (some posted already) from....
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.1341011
http://dreadfulpenny.tumblr.com/