It's official: The new One World Trade Center becomes New York's tallest skyscraper, again.
04-30-2012, 04:03 PM
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It's official: The new One World Trade Center becomes New York's tallest skyscraper, again.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/30/...scraper-again/
The World Trade Center will once more tower over the City of New York on Monday, taking its spot as the highest point on Manhattan’s iconic skyline.
This afternoon, winds and weather permitting, the first steel column of One World Trade Center’s 100th floor will be hoisted atop the skyscraper’s current structure, bringing the building to a height of 1,271 feet — 21 feet higher than the Empire State Building.
The new building won’t reach its final height for several more months, but when it does the tower will stand 1,368 feet at rooftop level – identical in height to the original World Trade Center tower it is designed to replace. The antenna, which will bring the total height to 1,776 feet, won’t be finished for about another year.
Height, however, can often be a contentious issue. The debate often centers on whether a building’s antenna or spire should be ultimately counted – antennae can often be added on well after a building’s completion. According to the Associated Press, if the new World Trade Center’s antenna is to be counted, it would make it “the tallest building in the U.S., and third tallest in the world.”
The Empire State Building was the world’s tallest building from 1932 until 1972, when the original World Trade Center’s North Tower was completed. It became New York City’s tallest skyscraper again after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Currently, the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in Chicago stands as the tallest building in the United States; the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which topped out in 2010 at a height of 2,723 feet, retains the coveted title as the tallest and fairest of ‘em all.
Construction for the new One World Trade Center began in April 2006, though suggestions for the site had been discussed since soon after the September 2001 attacks. The building is expected to be structurally finished toward the end of this year, though occupants aren’t expected to start moving in until early next year. Author Neal Bascomb told The New York Times that he noticed the building growing perceptibly taller each time he drove into the Big Apple: “You know, I was happy to see it,” he said. “I thought, ‘Wonderful.’”
David M. Childs, the architect who led the design team for the new skyscraper, noted the significance of the development for New York City. “In a way, it ties together Manhattan, which lost something because of that emptiness in the sky.”
Part of me thinks this is awesome, but another part of me is saying they should of just left it as a memorial and not built a new skyscraper. What do you all think?
The World Trade Center will once more tower over the City of New York on Monday, taking its spot as the highest point on Manhattan’s iconic skyline.
This afternoon, winds and weather permitting, the first steel column of One World Trade Center’s 100th floor will be hoisted atop the skyscraper’s current structure, bringing the building to a height of 1,271 feet — 21 feet higher than the Empire State Building.
The new building won’t reach its final height for several more months, but when it does the tower will stand 1,368 feet at rooftop level – identical in height to the original World Trade Center tower it is designed to replace. The antenna, which will bring the total height to 1,776 feet, won’t be finished for about another year.
Height, however, can often be a contentious issue. The debate often centers on whether a building’s antenna or spire should be ultimately counted – antennae can often be added on well after a building’s completion. According to the Associated Press, if the new World Trade Center’s antenna is to be counted, it would make it “the tallest building in the U.S., and third tallest in the world.”
The Empire State Building was the world’s tallest building from 1932 until 1972, when the original World Trade Center’s North Tower was completed. It became New York City’s tallest skyscraper again after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Currently, the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in Chicago stands as the tallest building in the United States; the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which topped out in 2010 at a height of 2,723 feet, retains the coveted title as the tallest and fairest of ‘em all.
Construction for the new One World Trade Center began in April 2006, though suggestions for the site had been discussed since soon after the September 2001 attacks. The building is expected to be structurally finished toward the end of this year, though occupants aren’t expected to start moving in until early next year. Author Neal Bascomb told The New York Times that he noticed the building growing perceptibly taller each time he drove into the Big Apple: “You know, I was happy to see it,” he said. “I thought, ‘Wonderful.’”
David M. Childs, the architect who led the design team for the new skyscraper, noted the significance of the development for New York City. “In a way, it ties together Manhattan, which lost something because of that emptiness in the sky.”
Part of me thinks this is awesome, but another part of me is saying they should of just left it as a memorial and not built a new skyscraper. What do you all think?
04-30-2012, 09:37 PM
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Rebuilding only ONE tower is kinda a middle finger to the rest of us.
And in a different location!
Thousands of people perished there and oh we've got an antenna that's taller than an 80-year old building. Using modern advanced engineering and technology being used to claim being taller than the Empire State is like kicking a WWII veteran in the balls and being proud of it. It's more somber that it took 80 years and two thousand something hundred helpless victims to accomplish something to be proud of. Meanwhile, the Empire State is unscathed during this whole fiasco. It's a very commercialized statement.
I wonder where that money came from, adding more tolls? Does this building account for "freedom" during the last decade or from adding more tolls, increasing taxes, rising costs of education, rising jobless, rising teen pregnancy, rising poverty, rising gap between rich and poor, rising deficit, rising fuel prices, rising cost of living?