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Originally Posted by jbermingham123
This appears to be pure value engineering of the original design, and not actually a redesign at all.
If you look closely, the massing still "slopes" down roughly diagonally in the same direction as the diamond did. This is exactly the same building with the same floor layout and everything, but no diamond. Right angles are cheaper.
People really ought to protest this... it would be a much better use of their time than protesting literally everything else. I'd take the damn Ingels block stack over this any day. Terrible shame
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While it's not an official confirmed design, it does look like value engineering of the diamonds original Foster design, with the addition of setbacks added along sections of the tower rising from the wider base.
As for protesting: money talks. If someone had enough money (and clout) to pitch in and ensure the diamonds are kept (if this is indeed a value engineered design of the original Foster design), that would be way more useful than just a petition by a few skyscraper enthusiasts or concerned citizens. There were petitions in the past to keep the radome cladding on the antenna of 1 WTC and to proceed with original plans for a "Windows on the World" style restaurant at the top of 1 WTC. Neither petitions were successful. Given the importance of the site it's a shame how much has been value engineered, including even 3 WTC's height and spires.
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Originally Posted by DCReid
If it does move forward, I hope they chose the glass carefully to minimize the quirk. I don't like it in this rendering, but if they skin it like 1 WTC or 4 WTC, it would look a lot better.
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It would be interesting to see renders of this tower with it using similar floor to ceiling curtainwall glass as in 3 WTC and 4 WTC instead of the beach condominium type facade with smaller windows. The renders of the previous designs of 2 WTC used that type of curtainwall glass and it's widely used in construction of skyscrapers in NYC these days so any design that is eventually constructed will most likely use that floor to ceiling curtainwall glass facade design.
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Originally Posted by chris08876
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If ignoring the texture of the facade and looking purely at the shape: it still portrays a diminished, sheared off "twin" of sorts to 1 WTC when viewed from the west across the Hudson River. If I remember right, there was criticism of the haphazard shape of BIG's 2 WTC that also functioned as a "twin" of sorts to 1 WTC when viewed from the west across the Hudson River and from the east across the Brooklyn Bridge.