I thought Larry was still the developer... is it the Port Authority now???
It's the Port Authority's tower. Any change must go through them. But we're way beyond that point now. As with the "rebuild the Twin Towers" crowd, your constant call for a new Freedom Tower design is both stale and ridiculous. This tower is already under construction.
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“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
Since EarthCam had to relocate their Ground Zero Cam, and LMDC shut their's down, its been hard to find good images of the footings structure and progress. It's actually easier to find historical photos of Towers 1 and 2 during their early construction. Anyway, Yahoo news posts some periodically at http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/even...1102groundzero. Here are some I haven't seen anywhere else.
Not being in construction or Civil Engineering, I don't know if that's a crane base (I assume) or part of the structure that will "rise out of the pit" - sort of H.G. Wells-ish.
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In case there's any more doubt that this tower is being built...
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“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
I have a question about the freedom tower, is it just me- or does it look like the FT has less office space/volume than one of the old WTC?
I don't know the exact figures (I'm sure others here will know better) but yes, the FT has less office space/volume than one of the WTC towers.
Keep in mind that the WTC towers had square floors that were the same size going all the way up; they never tapered at all. On the other hand, FT tapers slowly to smaller floor plates as it goes up.