Gothamist: WTC Tower To Be Tallest Building

malec

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:21:04 -0500

The freedom tower's definitely not going to be the world's tallest building. The Burj Dubai that's under construction in the UAE is planned to have 189 floors (check ameinfo.ea) and to have a minimum height of 705m. There have been many reports saying 800m aswell but they're keeping their height secret until the end they say.

cfewell

Mon, 31 May 2004 02:12:18 -0500

i think that the new design would be cool if they would get rid of the stupid wind turbine crap off the top. it makes us look like a bunch of panzies. the originall world trade center was awsome and then new one is stupid. i think they should just build a new more modern version of the old ones.

cfewell

Mon, 31 May 2004 02:12:08 -0500

Pickles

Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:00:57 -0500

I think that the freedom tower shouldn't have such a tall spire. That makes it look kind of tall but in a cheating way

callalillie

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:26:32 -0500

both designs are terribly ugly. the one on the right looks like a stubbed out cigarette...which could carry many meanings in nyc.

candleblue

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:09:46 -0500

My guess is that "Childs" is being facetious ;D Anyway, real New Yorkers don't need a signpost to tell us where's downtown -- we just walk towards the hole in the sky.

infant

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:54:50 -0500

i'll tell you what's gay: it's making the building 1776 feet tall. wow, how symbolically meaningful!

Childs

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:36:26 -0500

Who gives a damn about the shape? It should be as tall as possible so that we can once again know which way is downtown when we're lost on unnumbered streets. (Remember that?)

candleblue

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:17:35 -0500

It's pretty interesting how all these skyscrapers are being built in cities/countries that sort of have "something to prove". Not that I'm against it -- the race for height in the US in the 1900s, especially between Chicago and New York, and even *within* New York -- was because of that same idea, that same feeling of having to show that you are better. But I really hope that the developers of the Freedom Tower won't fall prey to such childish one-upmanship. Sure, it would be great to have the world's tallest building. It would be a magnificent symbol of defiance, and a beautiful symbol that you can't knock New York down, that we'll only get up and get better than before and definitely better than anyone else. But if doing so means that we're gonna build some ugly monolith with a ridiculous, no-man's-land top that sticks out like the sorest thumb above the skyline, I say we pass on it.

eli

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:23:24 -0500

You're right, as of October. I didn't think it was due to be finished for a while.

henry

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:38:22 -0500

the design on the right looks like a person who has to pee.

Sef

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:07:08 -0500

the petronas towers aren't the tallest buildings in the world at the moment; that 'title' belongs to Taipei 101: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3200160.stm

eli

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:58:26 -0500

Candleblue is right. The highest inhabitable floor in the Sears Tower is about 100 feet higher than the highest inhabitable floor in the Petronas Towers. The Sears Tower has an antenna on the top that actually makes it taller than the Petronas Tower by ANY measurement, but since it's a TV antenna and not a "decorative spire" it doesn't count. The rankings are BS, in my opinion.

veritech pilot

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:48:34 -0500

ick

calavera

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:29:28 -0500

ugh, david childs should be drawn and quartered. that's the kind of building you're going to get when you had the project over to a backroom boy.

candleblue

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:19:46 -0500

I can understand how people wouldn't want to work on the higher floors... it's still such a copout though, how all these cities are trying to outdo each other on the world's tallest building by simply sticking all these not-for-occupancy structures on top of their buildings. In my books, to this day the Sears Tower (Chicago) is still the world's tallest building because it has the highest inhabitable floor. So take that, Petronas Towers =p