World Trade Center regains title of tallest building in New York - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17898138[/url] [quote=BBC News][b]One World Trade Center has become New York's tallest building, overtaking the Empire State Building, after a steel column was lifted into place.[/b] The installation of the girder on the 100th floor of the skyscraper makes the structure at the site of the 9/11 attacks 1,271ft (387m) high. The building, construction of which began in April 2006, will be 1,776ft tall when completed. The World Trade Center's twin towers were destroyed on 11 September 2001. The skyscraper, dubbed Freedom Tower, became the tallest building in New York a day before the one-year anniversary of the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. [b]'A real milestone'[/b] The rooftop parapet of the building, often referred to as Freedom Tower, will be 1,368ft - exactly the same height as the original One World Trade Center. But when all 104 floors of the new skyscraper are finished, including the antenna, One World Trade Center will be slightly taller than its predecessor. On top of the roof, a 408-ft (124-m) cable-stayed spire will be added, making the total height of the structure a symbolic 1,776ft (541m). With the spire, it will also surpass the Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower) in Chicago as the tallest building in the US. Inside, the building will have 69 floors of office space, including restaurants and television broadcasting facilities, as well as an observation deck at the top. In the shadow of the new tower is the 9/11 memorial, made up of two reflecting pools in the footprints of where the twin towers used to stand. "Seeing this building from all over the region - Long Island, New Jersey, New York - it's just a statement for the region that we've reached a real milestone," Mike Mennella, a construction executive who was on the original twin towers project, told CNN. The World Trade Center project suffered several delays over designs and naming. On Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg celebrated the milestone. "The New York City skyline is, once again, stretching to new heights," Mr Bloomberg said in a statement. "Today our city has a new tallest building and a new sense of how bright our future is," Mr Bloomberg said. The first One World Trade Center surpassed the Empire State Building's height of 1,250ft in October 1970. Although One World Trade Center is set to claim the title of the tallest building in the US, Dubai's Bhurj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world.[/quote]

'[i]freedom[/i] tower'

I like how it took them longer to build one tower than it did the old two.

I still don't understand why they decided to not just rebuild the towers as their original design, obviously they're trying to convey a message by calling it "freedom tower", what sends a stronger message than the original building design?

[QUOTE=MIPS;35773583]I like how it took them longer to build one tower than it did the old two.[/QUOTE] having the building Safe + the Economy does not help

thats a nice looking building (so far)

It's hard to grasp that it just did, I've been able to see it in the skyline from Brooklyn for months now. It's a beautiful building, even unfinished.

[QUOTE=samframpton;35773626]I still don't understand why they decided to not just rebuild the towers as their original design, obviously they're trying to convey a message by calling it "freedom tower", what sends a stronger message than the original building design?[/QUOTE] I prefer the new design, a modern building for a modern world.

[QUOTE=samframpton;35773626]I still don't understand why they decided to not just rebuild the towers as their original design, obviously they're trying to convey a message by calling it "freedom tower", what sends a stronger message than the original building design?[/QUOTE] The building isn't being built merely to make a statement. And besides, why use an outdated design?

[QUOTE=samframpton;35773626]I still don't understand why they decided to not just rebuild the towers as their original design, obviously they're trying to convey a message by calling it "freedom tower", what sends a stronger message than the original building design?[/QUOTE] It looks like the old buildings from one angle, and the Washington monument from another.

itd be funny if terrorists destroyed the new WTC while it was under construction [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Yet another awful post by Kopimi - Shape up or ship out" - Craptasket))[/highlight]

[img]http://andrewromanblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/freedom_tower.jpg[/img] Personally, I think it looks pretty awesome. Also, wasn't this building in Crysis 2, if I Remember correctly?

[QUOTE=Kopimi;35773736]itd be funny if terrorists destroyed the new WTC while it was under construction[/QUOTE] nah it wouldnt at all really

[QUOTE=redBadger;35773737]Also, wasn't this building in Crysis 2, if I Remember correctly?[/QUOTE] [URL="http://kotaku.com/5786983/nycs-freedom-tower-stands-tall-in-new-video-game"]Yep.[/URL]

I've always heard about the new building but I've never seen the actual progress until now

So hopefully the frame of the building will be finished this year? I really want to see it finished.

It looks pretty cool, but Taipei 101 and the Burj Khalifa look better, IMO.

I bet whoever owns the empire state building was like "FUCK YEAH, WHO'S GOT THE TALLEST BUILDING NOW, FUCKERS?! SUCK IT!" as he saw the WTC going down [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Trolling, or dumb, or both" - verynicelady))[/highlight]

Wow, they brought that up sort of quick. When I was there two years ago, all they had was the base.

[QUOTE=MIPS;35773583]I like how it took them longer to build one tower than it did the old two.[/QUOTE] They had to > Clean the wreckage > Search for bodies left > Actually decided what the building should look like (they rejected a few first designs) > Begin to break ground and build >Now

I took this photo a few weeks ago, it's coming along nicely but slowly. [t]http://i.imgur.com/NOALe.jpg[/t]

I didn't even know they were rebuilding it.

[QUOTE=NO ONE;35773777]So hopefully the frame of the building will be finished this year? I really want to see it finished.[/QUOTE] They say it'll be 1 more year til it's done

This actually makes me really happy. Nothing saddens me more than watching old movies, or tv and seeing the WTC in the New York skyline. Always depresses me.

[QUOTE=prooboo;35773787]I bet whoever owns the empire state building was like "FUCK YEAH, WHO'S GOT THE TALLEST BUILDING NOW, FUCKERS?! SUCK IT!" as he saw the WTC going down[/QUOTE] yeah I'm sure that's exactly what he was thinking

[QUOTE=samframpton;35773626]I still don't understand why they decided to not just rebuild the towers as their original design, obviously they're trying to convey a message by calling it "freedom tower", what sends a stronger message than the original building design?[/QUOTE] I liked the idea, I actually thought they should add ten or twenty floors ontop of the original ones but eh, I can see how the new tower is better by design and for the people who remember the old towers. Besides like 80% of New Yorkers never liked the design of the original towers, they just sorta grew on them because they weren't going anywhere.

Personally, I'd have built both back exactly how they looked... externally at least. Internally? Whole new beast. Modernize the fuck out of the inerds, but make the outside look [I]EXACTLY[/I] the same as the original towers.

Can anyone even explain why it's taken them 10 years to half complete one of the buildings? I'm not criticizing or anything, i'm just curious as to why it's taken so long. Somehow i blanked over the post a bit above mine. However, that does not take 10 years. It takes a while, but not 10 years. The rubble could have been under a year, which also concludes searching for the bodies. It does not take 8 years to redesign a building. After looking this up, the design was finalized in 2005. In this case it does not take 7 years to half complete a building with today's technology, even during recessions.

[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;35773773]I've always heard about the new building but I've never seen the actual progress until now[/QUOTE] When I was down at the OWS protests, I was directly in front of it for weeks. I didn't know it was being constructed, I still thought it was just a pit. Then someone pointed it out to me and I realised I've been standing in front of it for weeks.

[QUOTE=MIPS;35773583]I like how it took them longer to build one tower than it did the old two.[/QUOTE] i dunno if you realize how many bodies they had to excavate before they started real construction