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Originally Posted by jmatero
That's downright insulting. To suggest people who like this building "don't understand" and are "happy for anything" is ridiculous.
I love the way this building turned out. It screams NEW YORK. To me, the plastic antenna cover (that's what it was) always looked like a unicorn horn and added too much mass above the parapet. It always looked oversized to my eye.
I'm not settling. Neither are any of the folks on the ground looking up and smiling every day. For the hundredth time, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What you find attractive others don't. The same goes for me. Be respectful of others. Life is too short to be spending your time being angry over an antenna cover.
You are entitled to your opinion but please don't tell the rest of the world they don't care and their love of this building (and site as a whole) isn't real.
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That seems like a rather unjustified level of indignation. It is reasonable to talk about public awareness of the spire and the original plans. Posts like this aren't angry, they're analytical. Ironically, it is that analysis that provokes anger.
Most people don't understand the iconic difference between the two. That isn't an insult at all, but rather a candid assessment of what people focus on and are aware of. Analysis of spire design isn't an important part of their life.
For example, most people are impressed and happy to see new skyscrapers, especially ones as high budget as WTC1. They look up and say, wow, that's tall and amazing. If asked, they won't have a strong opinion on the spire. To them, it looks like a spire that goes on top of a building.
Evaluations like that are always relative. Are they happy with the spire? Sure.
However, compare that to the opinions that likely would be expressed about the spire if it was covered. Instead of just being the raw top bit of an amazing building, it would be the defining architectural focal point of the entire city. The spire is and will be that to some degree even in it's current unclad form. Yet the covered version would attain a far more significant, iconic status.
People will grow to love and treasure the spire anyway. Familiarity and pride will breed that. At the same time, it isn't contradictory to point out that the spire could have been better.
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