NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS - Page 966

Modulair · #**19301** Posted **Jan 19, 2012, 4:54 PM**

everyone is asking why i said "360 meters"..

this is just that since december, the height is "locked" to 350 meters, so i was just wondering when it would pass the next step !

and for the empire state building, it has been already passed, because it is 330 meters high , without the "cheating" antenna and iron mast

Kevin Scott Koepke · #**19302** Posted **Jan 19, 2012, 6:01 PM**

lower manhattan; 1/19/2012 by kevin scott koepke photography, on Flickr

NewYorkSkyline117 · #**19303** Posted **Jan 19, 2012, 6:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Modulair

everyone is asking why i said "360 meters"..

this is just that since december, the height is "locked" to 350 meters, so i was just wondering when it would pass the next step !

and for the empire state building, it has been already passed, because it is 330 meters high , without the "cheating" antenna and iron mast

Noo that's wrong...the empire state building is 1,454 with the antennae and without it, the building is 1,250 feet. One WTC is currently 1,140 feet which means it has a little over 100 feet to go to surpass it

CarlosV · #**19304** Posted **Jan 19, 2012, 8:13 PM**

all i know..i'll the first on line when the observation deck opens to the public!!

DSC_5130 copy by Ceva321, on Flickr

Roadcruiser1 · #**19305** Posted **Jan 19, 2012, 8:49 PM**

People fighting over the height of One World Trade Center doesn't really understand why the height was picked in the first place. One World Trade Center roof's height reaches 1,362 feet and if you include the upper sections it would be 1,368 feet. The reason why it is that high is there were two buildings that used to exist at the World Trade Center that doesn't exist anymore that used to be just as tall from ground to roof. The height of the One World Trade Center makes the building sacred because of the relations it has with the old World Trade Center, and the mast reaches a symbolic 1,776 feet to show American independence. This was what they were trying to target. By attacking the old World Trade Center they were attacking our liberty and our freedom. This height is symbolic to we shall keep our freedom and not be altered by what you did. This is what the new One World Trade Center means.

NYC GUY · #**19306** Posted **Jan 19, 2012, 9:00 PM**

Look's like they're bringing something up.

SupertallSkyline88 · #**19307** Posted **Jan 19, 2012, 9:18 PM**

CarlosV · #**19308** Posted **Jan 19, 2012, 9:53 PM**

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...But anyway, great shots as always Carlos! It's very exciting to see 4WTC's visibility grow with each passing week as well.

just taken

DSC_5141 copy by Ceva321, on Flickr

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Look's like they're bringing something up.

Nope, no new activity since God knows when..except for the glass

Just taken....

DSC_5142 copy by Ceva321, on Flickr

NewYorkSkyline117 · #**19309** Posted **Jan 19, 2012, 10:36 PM**

so i forgot who told me, possibly 2 Towers? When is there a prediction for new steel, this weekend, or maybe end of next week? I'm not mad or anything, just curious

Roadcruiser1 · #**19310** Posted **Jan 19, 2012, 10:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by NewYorkSkyline117

so i forgot who told me, possibly 2 Towers? When is there a prediction for new steel, this weekend, or maybe end of next week? I'm not mad or anything, just curious

Don't know. Everyone would have to wait and hold their horses.

NYguy · #**19311** Posted **Jan 19, 2012, 11:00 PM**

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/...he-80th-floor/

1 WTC: The View From the 80th Floor

January 19, 2012
By Alina Simone

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If you live in New York City, across the Hudson in New Jersey, or possibly on the moon, you have probably noticed 1 World Trade Center edging steadily into the skyline of Lower Manhattan, layer by klieg-lit layer. By the middle of this year, the 105-story, steel frame of what promises to be the tallest building in the country (and the tallest office building in the world) will be complete. Currently, 1 WTC stands at 91 stories. Recently, I was invited up to the highest accessible floor, the 80th.

I am accompanied by one of the building’s architects and a project manager, as well as a handful of curiosity-seekers. We take a construction hoist to the 79th floor, to the Q-tip top of the building, where there are no exterior walls or windows, just a blanket of safety netting and metal wire. With my hard hat and a florescent vest pulled over the black puffy jacket I wore that day, I closely resemble a Goodyear tire that’s had a sad run-in with a line of police tape. We are 1000 feet up. When I look inward, toward the heart of the building, all I can see is a clockwork of re-bar. But the exterior, free of walls, reveals the city sprawling cinematically below in a 360-degree panorama. Where the concrete floor ends, the sky simply begins.