I don't want to get us way off on another issue. The issue here is whether the mast is considered a spire or antenna.
Wheither or not either should count towards height is another issue for another thread, and luckily we have one...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=183533
http://www.radioworld.com/article/ny...unities/219236
NYC Broadcasters Eye WTC Rooftop Opportunities
by Randy J. Stine
05.06.2013
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A giant spire is now in place atop the One World Trade Center in Manhattan stretching the new skyscraper to a height of 1,776 feet and maybe forever changing the FM antenna infrastructure in the country’s largest radio market. The 800-ton, 408-foot spire was lifted into place last week and is expected to serve as a broadcast antenna for television and FM radio stations in the city. The projects developers believe the new “world-class broadcast antenna” will serve as an adequate replacement for the broadcast facilities lost in the collapse of the fallen twin towers at the site during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Durst Organization, which will manage and lease space at One WTC, met with radio and television broadcasters in the city several months ago and is now approaching radio broadcasters individually to determine their commitment levels, said John Lyons, assistant vice president and director of broadcast communications for Durst.
“We are in a holding pattern right now because of the TV repack,” referring to the television channel repacking expected to occur after the spectrum auction. All of that activity, Lyons said, “will determine where we place antennas and where we stack them on the tower. If the TV is going on top, I prefer to do that first before we place the master FM antenna,” Lyons said.
Design features for the transmission facility are done but no orders have been placed for transmission hardware, such as the antenna and FM combiner, according to Lyons.
Midtown Manhattan’s Empire State Building is 1,250 feet tall with a 204-foot-antenna. Empire is currently home to most of New York City’s FM radio stations. The historic building, which is has multiple FM master antennas, also serves as home to nearly all of the city’s digital television transmitters. In a 2012 prospectus for an IPO, the Empire State Building acknowledged that 19 radio stations call Empire home. Lyons said there would be room enough for all the FMs at the Empire State Building to move their primary transmitter sites to One WTC.
In addition, a broadcast structure atop the Conde Nast Building at 4 Times Square, which is 1,018 feet above street level and also managed by Durst, includes 14 FM transmitters. The vast majority of those are backup FM transmitters, Lyons said.
When One WTC is completed, and once it is verified by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the building will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and third tallest building in the world. The spire — complete with galvanized steel broadcast rings — will serve as part of the One WTC’s transmission facilities for the region’s media outlets. Perched at its tip is the spire’s stainless steel beacon.
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http://www.mediapost.com/publication...#axzz2SYhF6XGw
We Are Made In New York (Again)
by Matt Straz
May 6, 2013
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Last week I attended an event at The Standard Hotel in New York City hosted by venture capital firms NEA, Silicon Valley Bank and Lerer Ventures. The Standard’s Roof Bar offers extraordinary views of lower Manhattan, including Freedom Tower and its newly installed spire. “Fitting,” I thought to myself as I chatted with this next generation of founders, business press and venture capitalists. The completion of Freedom Tower marks a new era in New York and its technology industry.
Having been present for New York’s first tech boom, it’s striking to see how much has changed since the World Trade Center, along with the dot-com tech sector, was reduced to rubble...
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http://gawker.com/how-tall-is-the-fr...ower-487352341
How Tall Is the "Freedom Tower"?
May 3, 2013
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Yesterday, with the raising of its mast, One World Trade Center—the "Freedom Tower"—symbolically kicked bin Laden's dead ass by reaching a soaring, magnificent 1,776 feet into the sky. Sort of. Probably.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the world authority on skyscraper height, has three different metrics: "Height to the Architectural Top," "Highest Occupied Floor," and "Height to Tip." The first of these is the standard by which skyscrapers are judged, and by which One World Trade Center would stake its claim as, at 1,776 feet, "the highest building in the western hemisphere."
But where is its architectural top? According to CTBUH, "architectural top" includes "spires," but not "antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment." Until last year, the designs called for a mast that was fairly unambiguously a spire—a seven-meter wide, architecturally designed element that was clearly part of the building. But in May, to save money, the steel-triangle design was scrapped (over the objections of the architects). What's left is something closer to an antenna than a spire—though CTBUH still hasn't made its ruling (emails to the council went unreturned).
It may not matter, anyway. The 1,776-foot figure bandied about by developers is based on measurements from the center of the building ("we had to pick something," designers told The Observer in 2011). If the CTBUH insists on doing its measurements from "the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance," as it says on its website, the height would be either 1,779 feet or 1,787 feet, depending on the placement of the beacon on top of the mast.
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