Freedom Tower "Story In Form" UT Arlington SOA

[venturafor2012]

this is a UGLY building design!!!

80%+ of NYC want the new design of the TWIN TOWERS to be built not this UGLY tower.

but I like the name and height -- I would like the Twin Towers to be built at 1776 ft with the antenna on tower 1 bring the total height to 1791 ft.

[TheCorbuzier]

how wicked are that jews

[HighAlbino]

Nice model but the design is revised.

[conrailbuff]

those building where ICONS. they where wat MADE NYC. In my opinion, I could care less aboat the freedom Tower. The Twin Towers will ALWAYS be the BEST ones ever. Im currently working on scratchbuilding the Towers from plastic an polyester styrene.

[WTCTribute]

Yay, destroy the image of what stood there with this shitty building!!! How fun that'll be for New York and America!!! Show our enemys, and future generations, that we really were defeated that day!!!

Fuck this design, fuck all other designs, REBUILD the Twin Towers.

[screammac]

its time thes buildings are built and bring bk the ecomerny and rebuild new york

[klonedklein]

there should be no tower there. that just talks about silverstein's goals... blood money is being used to construct this tower.

[bassman5588]

i agree. they should rebuild the twin towers or build nothing at all. this new tower is just awful.

[MulletManSam]

The Twin Towers were known for not being popular business wise (due to tiny windows) and thus the Port Authority wanted to tear it down but it turned out that it would cost too much to remove all the asbestos from the buildings and that's the only reason why it survived through the 90s. In fact, I heard they were planning to take them down even in the 80s.

I do prefer the twins though, they defined Lower Manhattan, even if they weren't well liked.

[bassman5588]

i don't believe that they were planning to tear them down at all. that could be just a rumor. Also, most of the claims that the towers were not popular were made by people who did not like them anyway. Most people thought they were beloved buildings and I know people who worked in them that loved working there and would gladly go back. The Twin Towers were very popular, 110 times more than the Freedom Tower ever will be.

[MulletManSam]

Business wise they weren't popular. The Port Authority had a hard time getting people to want to set up a business in there. A good chunk of the building was vacant, especially at the time of 9/11 (which is a good thing). That's why they gave them to Silverstein, the upkeep was costing the state billions of dollars a year.

[WTCTribute]

No it wasn't, it was costing them millions, not billions. Where the fuck are you getting this information? How can they cost billions when they brought in millions apon millions apon millions of dollers a year? hundereds of thousands of visitors, workers. They were almost full before 9/11 happened.

[WTCTribute]

You're so right, that's why they were over 96% full (around there) when 9/11 happened, right? BULLSHIT!! Tiny windows didn't destroy the popular business, THEY WERE FULL when 9/11 happened. Also, windows on the world, with its "tiny windows" raked in over 200 million a year from visitors, and the complex had over 25,000 visitors a day.

So much for tiny windows.

Also, they WERE liked. Why do you think New York wants them back?

[amaraca]

This is incredibly upsetting. Awful.

[ccaplinger]

The current location of the observation deck is at 1776 feet so I imagine theyll keep it at that location. The roof will be covered with all sorts of mechanical equipment and certainly large exhaust fans so I doubt they'll allow people up there. I wouldve liked to have seen something better than what was shown in the competition. Even Libeskind's design shown in the video lacks the style and grace that I wish someone wouldve drawn into the site.

[Jirloow]

yeah, i mean this one is a pretty special design but the newest design is much better in my opinion, i like the design better.

and the people who's building it right now are talking about if people should be allowed to go too the roof or not så maybe there will be an observation deck on the roof. that would be awesome as hell

[Jirloow]

yeah but it's an ugly piece of crap design, it did'nt even let people get to the top of the building.

[ccaplinger]

It's different I'll give it that....however, your argument doesnt really have merrit because the tower they're building doesnt let people to the top either. The observation deck is about 8 floors from the top directly below the mechanical floors. Not to mention...the building itself sits on a 200 foot base of concrete covered in 4'x13' glass panels. Libeskind's design at least has something interesting going on instead of the plain jane tower SOM is building.

[Jirloow]

come on you've got the old design in the video, no one wants to see that ugly crap

[Spyrobandi]

true good job they changed it to the better one

[ccaplinger]

That is the design that won the competition...not to mention this was a project for architecture school and lord knows the new design doesnt contribute anything to the architectural community other than another plain skyscraper. At least Libeskind had something original.

[MulletManSam]

Actually, this design was stolen from Thomas Shine. David Childs, who was saw Shine's Olympic Tower design at Yale, took it from him. Caused a big thing back in 2005. Both designs look close enough to me.