NEW YORK | 200 Greenwich - 2 WTC | 1,270 FT | 80 FLOORS | ON HOLD - Page 7

BayRidgeFever · #**121** Posted **May 30, 2007, 5:33 AM**

Sounds good to me....most of the renderings should be at gkapc.com since Gene Kaufman designs most of them.

I know what a pain it is to upload photos onto forums so again, we all appreciate the work

NYguy · #**122** Posted **May 30, 2007, 3:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by aluminum

Dwarfs ! DWARFS !!!! hey listen 1339' may sound good in New York but as compared to other buildings in the world going up right now, its nothing, NOTHING AT ALL!!!!!!!! EVEN THE SOUTH TOWER BUILT DECADES AGO WAS WAY BIGGER, TALLER AND WIDER THAN THIS BUILDING. The south tower didn't a design, but it broke 400m mark without a setback. The Aon in Chicago is the only such compact monster left. A glamorous 50 floor building called absolute world or something with awesome shape and design is going up in my city, but nobody seems to care about it because DESIGN IS NOTHING WITHOUT HEIGHT BUT the opposite is not true.

This post is so idiotic, it's too bad I have to use some of my limited time here to respond. But first of all, no one gives a rats a$$ what's being built in the rest of the world. This tower alone will be among the tallest in the country, with neighbors just as tall. But it's not just tall, its also massive, the WTC towers will be even more massive than the BofA tower currently rising in Midtown. As far as no one caring about what's built in your town, well, it's not just lack of height no one cares about there.

M II A II R II K · #**123** Posted **May 30, 2007, 3:56 PM**

Yea what the hell kind of a post is that...

aluminum · #**124** Posted **May 30, 2007, 5:30 PM**

This tower is freakin' 276 feet taller than 'Eiffel Tower' and has roof more than 121 centimetres higher than that of the legend Empire State Building....
Now thats tall..

Ain't this just great....

Scruffy · #**125** Posted **May 30, 2007, 5:34 PM**

where is this tower? show us a pic or tell us the city and name. If its a great as you say, then i would love to fall in love with it too

aluminum · #**126** Posted **May 30, 2007, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Scruffy

where is this tower? show us a pic or tell us the city and name. If its a great as you say, then i would love to fall in love with it too

I am talking about the tower which I am supposed to talk about...
WTC 2

nygirl1 · #**127** Posted **May 30, 2007, 10:57 PM**

I don't get it weren't you just calling wtc 2 out on not being tall enough? And that it's design was crap because it wasn't tall enough? Where are you from again?

CoolCzech · #**128** Posted **May 30, 2007, 11:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by aluminum

Dwarfs ! DWARFS !!!! hey listen 1339' may sound good in New York but as compared to other buildings in the world going up right now, its nothing, NOTHING AT ALL!!!!!!!! EVEN THE SOUTH TOWER BUILT DECADES AGO WAS WAY BIGGER, TALLER AND WIDER THAN THIS BUILDING. The south tower didn't a design, but it broke 400m mark without a setback. The Aon in Chicago is the only such compact monster left. A glamorous 50 floor building called absolute world or something with awesome shape and design is going up in my city, but nobody seems to care about it because DESIGN IS NOTHING WITHOUT HEIGHT BUT the opposite is not true.

Quote:

Originally Posted by aluminum

This tower is freakin' 276 feet taller than 'Eiffel Tower' and has roof more than 121 centimetres higher than that of the legend Empire State Building....
Now thats tall..

Ain't this just great....

Quote:

Originally Posted by aluminum

I am talking about the tower which I am supposed to talk about...
WTC 2

You're scaring me, aluminum. Are you sure you're reading your own posts? Maybe aluminum could use a bit of lithium?

aluminum · #**129** Posted **May 31, 2007, 12:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by CoolCzech

You're scaring me, aluminum. Are you sure you're reading your own posts? Maybe aluminum could use a bit of lithium?

You people didn't get it .....
and 121 cm taller than ESB ...........centimeters taller than a thing built almost 80 years ago.................
And aluminum doesn't react with Lithium in any condition,"science freaks"

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Originally Posted by nygirl1

I don't get it weren't you just calling wtc 2 out on not being tall enough? And that it's design was crap because it wasn't tall enough? Where are you from again?

I NEVER said 'design was crap'. Design is, believe me, just awesome and I love shape formed by four parallel non skewed 'paralellopipeds' ......

I just said they could've made this taller by not building wtc 4

Scruffy · #**130** Posted **May 31, 2007, 12:30 AM**

alright we all know where we all stand. can we end it at that?

So whats been interesting me the most lately is the gradual change in color from black at the bottom to dark blue at the top. This runs the risk of looking ultra cheesy to fning good. all in the execution. But it isn't the first time this has been tried around here. To a lesser attempt it was tried on the top third of the Goldman Sachs tower in Jersey City. Do you guys feel that was a successful attempt. Would that work if instead of being spread over 250ft, it was spread over 1000 feet?

Nowhereman1280 · #**131** Posted **Jun 2, 2007, 6:26 PM**

^^^ Are you sure that it is actually going to fade? I don't remember reading that anywhere? I think that it may just be shadows in some of the renderings, or am I wrong?

viewguysf · #**132** Posted **Jun 2, 2007, 10:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kngkyle2

The best of the new WTC towers in my opinion.

I agree, especially since I find the main tower fortress like, misproportioned and unattractive. NYC could and should do much better than the current version of WTC 1.

Sol_Invictus · #**133** Posted **Jun 4, 2007, 5:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

Beautiful, sleek, and modern. And as Kngkyle2 and viewguysf stated above, much more appealing than Freedom Tower.

aluminum · #**134** Posted **Jun 4, 2007, 8:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sol_Invictus

Beautiful, sleek, and modern. And as Kngkyle2 and viewguysf stated above, much more appealing than Freedom Tower.

got that right............

NYguy · #**135** Posted **Jun 4, 2007, 8:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by aluminum

You people didn't get it .....
and 121 cm taller than ESB ...........centimeters taller than a thing built almost 80 years ago.................
And aluminum doesn't react with Lithium in any condition,"science freaks"

It has to be said - you're a moron....

NYguy · #**136** Posted **Jun 4, 2007, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by aluminum

I just said they could've made this taller by not building wtc 4

A lot of things could have been done. Why not just build one 10msf tower? There's a little thing called a "site plan" that dictated where these towers would go, and how much space they would contain. Also, there was a little matter of getting these towers built and leased. These are office towers, not residential.

Nowhereman1280 · #**137** Posted **Jun 4, 2007, 10:29 PM**

Nyguy, you know what you are talking about, have you ever actually heard anything about this having glass that fades from dark to light from the bottom up? In every render it appears to be shadows to me. Is this just a rumor or are they actually going to try it?

aluminum · #**138** Posted **Jun 5, 2007, 2:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

It has to be said - you're a moron....

aluminum · #**139** Posted **Jun 5, 2007, 2:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

A lot of things could have been done. Why not just build one 10msf tower? There's a little thing called a "site plan" that dictated where these towers would go, and how much space they would contain. Also, there was a little matter of getting these towers built and leased. These are office towers, not residential.

No, two skyscrapers can be combined to form a bigger one like in the Case of Big John in Chicago. As the height goes on increasing above certain value like 2500 feet the cost of construction starts accelerating up and up, the height increases a little bit but the cost doubles and triples. It is ridiculous

of you to think of 10msf towers. If thats the case whole cities could've been combined to singe skyscrapers...

aluminum · #**140** Posted **Jun 5, 2007, 3:35 AM**

Looks like they can attach solar panels on roof tops if they want ....