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Team Twin Towers' "World Trade Center II" [jpeg] Redux

· Troubleshooting · 43 posts · Jul 8, 2004 — Jul 9, 2004 View original thread ↗

#31 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 13:29

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Originally posted by starman:
I think it was because there was nothing like it in the world. If you look at pictures of NYC back then, it was a lot of 20's and 30's-type art deco architechture, even on the Empire State Building. Then not one, but TWO silver boxes comes rising up and it really looked out of place. I think it wasn't until after some modern architecture was built around it that people started to like it.

It looked gorgeous at night. I used to spend time with my grandparents in Jersey City when I was a kid (back when JC was actually DECENT) and the towers at night were absolutely breathtaking. I think the Freedom Tower's gonna suck big time. It's not BAD, but it's not tickling me, either.

I went through a carousel of slides a few weeks ago and found a pic my dad took of the towers as they were being built. I'll have to scan it in and post it here.

Mike

It was also because it is one of those designs that looks like it was not designed. Just 2 big gray blocks. It also represented something that the US was unfashionable at the time, wastefulness. They didn't even have light switches in most of the buildings and the entire thing was light up from top to bottom 24/7. People saw these 2 big cement monsters wasting a ton of money. They also didn't like the fact that they were designed by a non-American.

#32 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 13:30

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Originally posted by PacHead:
The new tower will be over 1776 feet, that's damn tall. I can't wait to go up to the top floor in that one and check it out.

Also a darn tall target.
Hard to miss that one

-t

#33 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 13:32

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Originally posted by starman:
He can't help it. He forgets to take his ritalin.

Mike

You mean in the same way you were told not to reply to everything concerning me? You want some of my meds?

#34 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 13:36

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Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
You mean in the same way you were told not to reply to everything concerning me? You want some of my meds?

When was that?

#35 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 14:57

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Originally posted by Psychonaut:
I would much rather see a building which stands for all that the World Trade Center represented: American business and capitalism.

Oh God. In my book that's reason enough to blow the bugger up.
Is there not something more decent to aspire to in the world..

#36 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 14:59

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Originally posted by sambeau:
Oh God. In my book that's reason enough to blow the bugger up.
Is there not something more decent to aspire to in the world..

It's the World Trade Center, not American Trade Center.

Mike

#37 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 15:14

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Originally posted by starman:
It's the World Trade Center, not American Trade Center.

Mike

But only because America = World, at least in their own minds

-t

#38 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 15:31

I think the "Freedom Tower" looks really nice, but it is hard to tell from those pictures.

All that glass is sorta worrying if something else were to happen in the future.

#39 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 15:47

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Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
They also didn't like the fact that they were designed by a non-American.

Yamasaki was born in Seattle. Not that it would've mattered if people were anti-Japanese, regardless.

bio

#40 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 20:26

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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
That's not Libeskind's Tower, btw.

As someone wrote above, he had to surrender the entire rights.

The "Freedom Tower" doesn't have all that much to do with Libeskind's design.

Libeskind's design was more of a massing study, anyway. I think LMDC always made it clear that the final design of the component buildings would probably differ from Libeskind's studies; after all, Libeskind doesn't have any experience designing tall buildings.

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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Impressive oversized man-made landmarks are not beautiful simply by virtue of their being big.

Feeling inadequate?

#41 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 20:48

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Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
It was also because it is one of those designs that looks like it was not designed. Just 2 big gray blocks. It also represented something that the US was unfashionable at the time, wastefulness. They didn't even have light switches in most of the buildings and the entire thing was light up from top to bottom 24/7. People saw these 2 big cement monsters wasting a ton of money.

The WTC was raking in $187 million NNN annually by 1987. By the 1990's, the center was also boasting enviably low, single-digit vacancy rates.

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Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
They also didn't like the fact that they were designed by a non-American.

Maybe you meant non-white American, since as somebody already pointed out, Yamasaki was born in and grew up in America.

#42 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 20:53

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Originally posted by f1000:
Feeling inadequate?

<Shrek>
Looks like somebody's compensating for something, huh?
</Shrek>

#43 Fri, 9 Jul 2004 - 22:46

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Originally posted by f1000:
Maybe you meant non-white American, since as somebody already pointed out, Yamasaki was born in and grew up in America.

Ya, non-white, you see a pict of the guy and people think he is from out of town.