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Originally Posted by TechTalkGuy
I did not use a block quote.
We all know that this tower will eventually be complete 100%.
Questioning the "weird window" sounds more like an insult and that is how I understood the statement in full.
I will not debate this any further, back on topic please!
I really like the recent photos of the progress, thus far!
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"When will they complete the fireproofing on the base?"
This is a reasonable question about the timeline for construction.
You absolutely took it out of context when you quoted it as "Will they complete the fireproofing?"
Getting rid of the "when" at the top completely changes the whole meaning of the posters question. You made it sound like he was either implying or thought it was possible that the fireproofing, and thus the tower, would never be finished.
Another example would be misquoting "I don't believe that we should eat our children" to "we should eat our children." Do you see how that completely changes the meaning? It is not a debate, it is just a misquote.
Anyway, the overall shape of the tower has actually grown on me now that the glass is almost complete. I never disliked it, but it is starting to look quite dominant and I quite like the taper from certain angles. I am still not a huge fan of the redesigned base, but it could have been a lot worse. I wonder if they ever considered cladding the base in the same fashion as the rest of the tower, probably not since they wanted the base to be distinctive, but I think a base that was clad as a mirror image of the first 20 floors above the base could have looked interesting. It also may have done more to disguise the fact that the base in a glass enclosed bunker by making it blend with the rest of the tower more. Oh well, what we are getting down there is not bad by any means.
The mast is still poo though.