NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 104 FLOORS | 2014 - Page 19

chris08876 · #**361** Posted **Jun 23, 2016, 11:05 PM**

New York City One World Trade in the clouds by Anthony Quintano, on Flickr

chris08876 · #**362** Posted **Jun 28, 2016, 12:42 AM**

Credit: Michael Lee

jayden · #**363** Posted **Jul 2, 2016, 2:15 AM**

Have all the Conde Naste employees moved in?

weidncol · #**364** Posted **Jul 3, 2016, 2:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by jayden

Have all the Conde Naste employees moved in?

Yes.

hunser · #**365** Posted **Jul 4, 2016, 12:08 PM**

Untitled by brian crombach, on Flickr

drumz0rz · #**366** Posted **Jul 5, 2016, 2:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by tokilamockingbrd

no I think you have it backwards.

Structurally 3 WTC is topped off. Architecturally it is not yet. The architectural height is what is counted for the final height in the rankings.

Antenna's don't count if they were not part of the building's design. For instance, with 1 WTC the way the built the actual structure of the building was designed to support the spire. In some cases an antenna was simply mounted on top and thus not counted.

Not to continue to stir this never ending argument further, but using your definition, the original 1 WTC was also designed to support an antenna, although it's distinctive antenna was not added until later (and thus never counted towards the official height). Counting the spi-tenna on 1 WTC is kinda BS, and was obviously influenced by money and the desire to call the building 1,776' (even though it only reaches that mark from an arbitrary point on the un-level ground on which it sits).

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Originally Posted by NYguy

JUNE 30, 2016

Back on topic, does anyone know why that one crane has that white bit at the end of the boom? What is that and what purpose does it serve? I haven't seen it on any other cranes.

Crawford · #**367** Posted **Jul 5, 2016, 4:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by drumz0rz

Not to continue to stir this never ending argument further, but using your definition, the original 1 WTC was also designed to support an antenna, although it's distinctive antenna was not added until later (and thus never counted towards the official height). Counting the spi-tenna on 1 WTC is kinda BS, and was obviously influenced by money and the desire to call the building 1,776' (even though it only reaches that mark from an arbitrary point on the un-level ground on which it sits).

Nothing in this post makes any sense. The spire was planned from the get-go, the agency that makes such silly rankings is a nonprofit that no one cares about (who exactly is paying off a skyscraper height nonprofit? - sounds like Obama birther stuff), and ground tends to be un-level with most building sites.

People will find a conspiracy with everything. Geez.

chris08876 · #**368** Posted **Jul 5, 2016, 11:09 PM**

The tallest Lego model in the U.S.

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Just in time for the Independence Day weekend, Legoland is showing off an extensive remodel of its New York miniland, dominated by a towering replica of Manhattan’s One World Trade Center.

At 26 feet tall and more than 250,000 Lego bricks, the skyscraper is the tallest Lego model in the U.S. (A 60-foot-tall replica of the 160-story Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai is awaiting the opening of Legoland Dubai this October.) It alone took eight master model builders more than 1,200 hours to build the trade center replica.

Unveiled on Thursday, the tower is part of a whole new section of the miniland devoted to replicating the feel and look of the memorial in lower Manhattan created to honor the thousands killed in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The memorial’s twin reflecting pools, the grove of memorial trees, World Trade Center Transportation Hub and even the museum building are all represented in the renovated miniland.

Legoland’s master builders even created a tower viewer fashioned from Lego bricks that allows individuals to get a birds-eye view of the Manhattan tableau from atop the World Trade Center Lego tower.

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http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...eplica-debuts/

chris08876 · #**369** Posted **Jul 5, 2016, 11:41 PM**

A followup to the post above:

• Video Link

chris08876 · #**370** Posted **Jul 9, 2016, 11:56 PM**

r_160617743_whcgowan_a by Mitch Waxman, on Flickr

NYguy · #**371** Posted **Jul 15, 2016, 3:53 AM**

JULY 12, 2016

Acer1 · #**372** Posted **Jul 17, 2016, 8:44 PM**

It looks like the WTC Earthcam showing the unfinished base side is finally being worked on.

http://kerrigan.synology.me/earthcam.php?view=1wtcbase

Funkie · #**373** Posted **Jul 21, 2016, 4:46 AM**

Here are some Photos I took last week!

NYguy · #**374** Posted **Jul 28, 2016, 4:19 PM**

Those are amazing views from Staten Island. Manhattan will soon look like an island of floating skyscrapers.

http://therealdeal.com/2016/07/28/es...e-rival-1-wtc/

ESB observatory drew more visitors – despite rival 1 WTC
CEO Anthony Malkin claims level of competition is “lower than expected”

July 28, 2016
By Konrad Putzier

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The Empire State Building’s observation deck increased its revenues in the first half of 2016, despite a challenging tourism environment and competition from One World Trade Center.

The observatory generated $53 million in revenue during the six months ending on June 30 – up from $48.8 million a year earlier – the building’s owner Empire State Realty Trust said in its quarterly earnings report. The number of visitors rose slightly to 1.843 million, from 1.787 million last year.
In an earnings call Wednesday morning, the real estate investment trust’s CEO said the competition from One World Trade Center’s new observation deck has been “lower than expected.”

“We are the first stop for tourists to view NYC,” he claimed.
A spokesperson for the Durst Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Durst Organization’s One World Trade Center opened its own observation deck in May 2015. The New York Times reported that it drew 2.3 million visitors in its first year – a million less than the 3.3 million annual visitors its operator, Legends, expected.

In the earnings call, Malkin acknowledged that the observatory is facing a challenging tourism market. The dollar’s value vis-à-vis key currencies rose over the past few months, which can hit international travel. The company said “favorable weather” helped push up attendance.

The observation deck is a major cash cow for the real estate company, accounting for almost 20 percent of its total revenues in the second quarter. Total revenues rose slightly to 165.8 million in the second quarter, from 164.8 million a year ago. Its net income fell to $24.6 million, from $26.6 million.