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God I sounded like a little girl when I found out the lobby reno was going to be completed this month, I'm going to NYC in August so I'll be able to check out the restored lobby and the 102 observation deck.
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Not everyone knows that the World Trade Center was not the first supertall hit by an airplane - though the US Airforce B-25 Bomber that slammed into the 79th floor of the ESB back in 1945 could have brought the whole structure down if it had been laden with bombs...
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@Fastdupree: :sly:.....:haha:
Dude, that isn't going to happen. One, it's tall enough. Two, conservationists would be freaked out. Third, even if we did do that, it wouldn't stay in 3rd place for long at all. |
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At Ground Zero, they don't seem to be interested in living up to that even though I like the new WTC. Hopefully we can one day see something built in NY like Shanghi WFC in total height instead of using spires. When you really think about it, If it's terrorist we worry about knocking them down again, It doesn't really matter what height the building is if it's destroyed so just build the damn skyscrapers the way we wanted to before 911 even happened but much stronger and safe. I just don't think the US will let something like that happen again anyway. Thank God the ESB was built more stronger and rigid than the WTC. |
^I agree with your statement about ESB being not tall enough in today's world, but adding floors on top of ESB to make it one of the WTB is downright ridiculous.
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I don't want to change the ESB. I love it as it is now. I did say it is my favorite of all. Just making a point on why I feel NY needs a mega skyscraper. I just want to see NYC get even bigger in height is all. Then it won't have to play catch up with the other cities later in the coming years. The "Empire State Building" Rules.
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http://rlove.org/images/nyc_midtown_20050828.jpg rlove.org To this day, I still can't put my finger on it, but something about the Manhattan skyline this seems, so....perfect. @Aluminum: While it's true Chicago may have been the birthplace of the Modern Skyscraper, New York City was the chief market that brought it to new heights in the 20th century. |
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famous skyline. In fact, the location of the ESB makes it hard to find a perfect location for another. Some earlier shots of the ESB at sunrise: http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/94009543/large.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/94009580/large.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/94009583/large.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/94009584/large.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/94009586/large.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/94009588/large.jpg |
Scruffy, When you really think about it and even though it's close to impossible to do, Adding 3-4 floors on each level of the ESB really wouldn't change it much in shape appearance other than it looking more bigger and much taller. It is a perfect skyscraper as it is now but; can you imagine it being even bigger than it is? What is life without imagination?
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The beauty of Manhattan is that it doesn't need these new modern glassy gaudy megatalls to show who the king is.
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What i'm looking forward to is developments such as the geometric Foster Building that was completed a few years back; while expanding upwards, your still able to conserve some history here and there.
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