NEW YORK | World Trade Center Building 7 | 610 feet Pinnacle | 47 FLOORS | 1987
 

Here i am back with another topic of underapreciated gems :cool:

7 World Trade Center my favorite of the old complex. With it's beautiful brown redish south and north facade and granite west and east facade. :yes: I still do not see why this building is so hated? But then again that's personal preference

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http://i.imgur.com/qt3IW.jpg

911review.com

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The giant hulking mass peeking through the north tower.

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http://i.imgur.com/063CM.jpg

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I always thought this was a cute skyscraper. But then again, I have a knack for loving buildings that the critics hated- see my threads on One Penn Plaza, 55 Water, and One New York Plaza.

I wish I could find some interior shots of the old 7WTC, such as the lobbies.

I can not find any shots but i do have a short video clip of the lobby and the emergency command center at 3:18 in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEQRL15s_t0

Big and brutal, but not really in a good way. I always found it oppressive and hulking and way too dark. I'm certainly not opposed to red granite cladding, but if you're going to do it, do it like SOM did on the Crocker Center (now Wells Fargo/IBM) in LA.

Inside the building was fancy and polished, but utterly forgettable.

A friend of mine was working in this building on 9/11 but was running up 8th Avenue when the South Tower went down.

This building is beautifull, it deserves to have a thread :tup:

Not my favorite building, but it looked OK from some angles.

PM me if you want the pictures.

Wow those are some awesome shots where did you find some of those?

I've been saving WTC pictures for a while now. Not sure where I got most of them.

Aside from One Penn Plaza, I fully agree.

What do you have against One Penn, may I ask?

Make sure to properly credit any photos you post that don't belong to you.

Make sure to include the link to the actual website where you found each photo.

Forum rules:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/anno...php?f=28&a=313

That simply isn't possible, since I'm sure I got them from websites where they themselves took it from elsewhere. People can find the pictures on my photobucket if they want them.

IMHO, such stringent rules are only going to hurt the forum in the long run, but it's your forum - not mine.

And I think it'd be pretty difficult to find out who took a picture that was clearly taken in the 1980s.

I went looking for some old 7WTC pics last night. Unfortunately it seems that searching for 7 WTC brings up so much conspiracy-crap that finding anything else is difficult. It takes a lot of patience to go wading through all that crap to find anything else.

Whoops fixed now sorry for forgetting.

Here's a little something I found on somebody's blog, it's called The Song of 7 World Trade:
THE SONG OF 7 WORLD TRADE

Cry for me, my city, my street;

Cry for me.

For now in this dusk, this dust, this heat,

I cannot feel my feet, and

I grow weak.

They are gone, my giant sibling twins,

Gone with a vengeful ire,

Having given way to Gravity, and Fire.

Who shall now uphold the sky?

Who shall keep eye on that farthest horizon?

Shall these tasks fall to me? So much their lesser,

I admit: it cannot be.

Cry with me, then, my city, my street,

I am now but a shell of sorrows,

Hollow of spirit, full of ghosts and grief.

Thus forty-seven stories now complete, and

Even I could not foresee

This ending.

Though the tale was told twice today already:

In steel and stone, glass and concrete,

Flesh and bone.

Fifty thousand footfalls where now there are none.

My time is come; I am undone.

My heart is broken.

My back is broken,

And I cannot feel my feet;

I am fifty thousand sorrows
As twilight falls, falls like me.
Cry, cry for my memory, my city, my street.

K. Pfeiffer
Upper West Side, Manhattan

The rest of the blog page can be found here:
http://www.vanadia.com/nycstories/91...es/k_pfeiffer/

You can still post a link to the photos and tell people about them. It's just not ok to post them on the forum without including the credit since it puts the photo out there in the public without the photographer's (owner's) name.

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._3589648_n.jpg
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?not...00922166638602

Randomly came across this while looking for something else. I do say, that is a fine looking lobby albeit a little awkward.

That is one of the pictures that I posted and then removed.

Here are just some of the WTC pictures I've collected over the years:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v423/meh_cd/wtc/

@Kevin: Understood.

It was a good looking building,nothing amazing but it had its charm. Though i'd never trade the current 7 WTC for it.

It had such a nice facade :(

http://i662.photobucket.com/albums/u...-release16.jpg

Michael Chan