New "World Trade Center" designs picked yet?
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New "World Trade Center" designs picked yet?
Have "they", whoever "they" might be, picked a new design for the WTC?
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It will have several fairly large towers, and a huge spire that will be the worlds tallest building.
It will have several fairly large towers, and a huge spire that will be the worlds tallest building.
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Bah. "Life-affirming" gardens? Sounds like a hippie thing.The top floors will be filled with life-affirming indoor gardens.
Well, the main tower looks kinda dumb. The rest isn't too bad. At least if my basic assumption that the towers won't look like huge crystals and that's just the model is correct.
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About friggin time the USA had thw world's tallest building again.
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Well, it will be nice, and appropriately monumental.
But glass and steel architecture doesn't do much for me, I had seen some other designs that would haven't been quite so greenhouse-ish.
Reading about leaving the foundation walls on display got a more emotional response than I would have expected, it still gets to me. Everytime I see a building demolished I shudder.
I was watching "Battle in Outer Space" the other day, a 1960 Japanese sci-fi "classic", two alien ships crashed into uptown Manhattan and made me flinch.
And that "life-afirming gardens" line really annoyed me, too.
But glass and steel architecture doesn't do much for me, I had seen some other designs that would haven't been quite so greenhouse-ish.
Reading about leaving the foundation walls on display got a more emotional response than I would have expected, it still gets to me. Everytime I see a building demolished I shudder.
I was watching "Battle in Outer Space" the other day, a 1960 Japanese sci-fi "classic", two alien ships crashed into uptown Manhattan and made me flinch.
And that "life-afirming gardens" line really annoyed me, too.
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Yeah, because we all know that "hippie things" are evil and bad, right?RogueIce wrote:Bah. "Life-affirming" gardens? Sounds like a hippie thing.The top floors will be filled with life-affirming indoor gardens.
Give me a break.
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Of course.Dalton wrote:Yeah, because we all know that "hippie things" are evil and bad, right?
If I must... *grabs baseball bat*Dalton wrote:Give me a break.
I don't mind so much the garden in and of itself, just calling it "life-affirming" irked me. It seems too much like dwelling on what happened there, instead of rebuilding and moving on.
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