Posted Sep 12, 2011, 2:53 AM
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: South Huntington, Long Island, New York
Posts: 1,047
|
|
I can see how the architecture of this thing can make it either stand out on its own or make a great part of a better whole; but I cannot grasp how anyone can just flatly say that 200G doesn't belong there.
Taking this as an element of the overall complex, let me show you how I perceive this tower as a visual continuum between the 150 & 175G block to 1WTC:
150: Simple (but not overly so) and serene geometry is featured in homage to Yamasaki-san's original Twins. The facade will be remarkable in its humility.
175: Continuation of geometric simplicity yields to more aesthetic facades and the I-beamish quad spires.
200: The fourfold concept is carried over to the diamonds. The overall geometry of the structure grows in complexity with a subtlety that may be unmatched in modern skyscraper design...at least in this Hemisphere.
WTC: The intricate Spire/beacon/telecom ring carries over from the open-air top of 200G. All other design elements, which are making themselves ever more visible with time, should bring everything together.
ALso, if you think about it, we are actually seeing two sets of supertalls, with the Calatrava hub as a frame of reference. 200G and 1WTC look to me like a bride and groom posing for their first photo. 150/175G, especially with the latter's fairly radical design change, look almost twinnish, but aren't so...It's hard to describe; but the two of them now look more like each other.
I can see the WTC Grand Scale Vision both ways.
|