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Old Posted Feb 8, 2018, 7:50 PM
Prezrezc Prezrezc is offline
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Stated 100x more succinctly that I could have.

Just an additional note that may have a horse's bludgeoned corpse chained to it:

The idea to have everything in a tower complex laid out in "opposite" order (that is the shortest as the most striking, as if to convey the notion of increasing visual impact with vertical ascent), usually falls on its face.

But looking at the Four Towers as originally conceived, the idea described above would have indeed worked...to wit, the vaunted "Libeskindian upward spiral".

@PhyllisJerry71:

IMO perhaps we wouldn't be having this sidebar discussion if Lord Foster's original 200G design were still intact. His version's "four diamond" architecture seemed the perfect visual continuation of 175G's original quad-spire/X-brace motif...and these two would've obviously provided the link between WTC1 and 150G.

However, Bjarke's amazing 200G is somehow more "in keeping" with this tower's ostensibly calculated "dumbing down"/value engineering/whatever you wish.

As I've suggested before, from we have seen over the past decade and a half in this complex, reality has been known to stage an intervention or two.

Last edited by Prezrezc; Feb 8, 2018 at 8:12 PM. Reason: Beaten to the punch, as it were...... ;)