NEW YORK | WTC (Foster) | 1,765 FT / 538 M | 98 FLOORS | 2010 | NEVER BUILT
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http://renewnyc.com/ Norman Foster of London's Foster and Partners plan would have included a glass-encased underground mall with twin towers that would rise 1,765 feet. A walkway would connect them: "They kiss and touch," he said. |
I always felt like I was one of the only people that just didn't like that proposal.
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I originally wanted this proposal, and was disappointed when it didn't get picked.
However at the time it was in competition with the original Libeskind proposal that I thought sucked. What we're actually going to get I think is cool. |
those towers look like they could fall very easy.
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Build em in a denser urban context (as opposed to Foster's proposed open 16 acres of park) and elsewhere, like at the Hudson Yards development. Just not at the WTC. |
The towers looked tacky and significantly out-of-place with the rest New York's architecture.
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That's just brutal. At 500 feet it might look alright, but almost 1800 feet? It's like a cartoon.
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I guess that these towers were just designed as a fantasy to make us accept the destruction of the original WTC, to give us hope.
I remember a time when I supported this project. I'm not sure I'd do it again today. |
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Yea you sure have a point there.
Plus I wonder how they would have worked the elevators in that thing. I imagine the express elevators would run right through the middle at it's thinnest points, and the local elevators would run through the fatter parts of the buildings. |
I loved this proposal. Plus it would probably have been finished by now if they chose it.
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I would take something like the Russia Tower over this monstrosity any day.
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No way should this tower ever have been even Proposed.
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I don't remember this project and I don't like it, I prefer much more the Hearst tower, when was it proposed? Was it before or after he got the Hearst tower project approved? same triangular framing pattern, IMO 2 buildings with almost the same design wouldn't have been a good idea, and the new WTC deserved a more original design.
I'm very satisfied with the Freedom tower's design, it'll be great and nicely integrated in the skyline, much more than this proposal. |
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My beautiful, kissing towers, they were not ready for you...:(
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I would of never trusted this design it looks like it could collapse from a hurricane.
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