NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS - Page 1217

hunser · #**24321** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 6:04 PM**

Puzzlecraft · #**24322** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 6:07 PM**

Yes the white piece steel doesn't appear to have the flanges of a column, then it must be a beam. If so, maybe will be the very last piece of structural steel to be placed when ready, per a true topping out ceremony?

Dave84 · #**24323** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 6:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mojeda101

I'm just going to leave what Iron Sky made it look like.

2wtc is in the wrong place, from this angle it would completely block out 1wtc, which is a great shame because i'ts a classic shot of lower manhattan from here. better perhaps if 2 and 4 wtc could swap places.

PhillyToNYC · #**24324** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 6:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by hunser

Safidy Andrianantenaina

If you look in the reflection it looks like a finished portion of 1 WTC.

jd3189 · #**24325** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 7:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dave84

2wtc is in the wrong place, from this angle it would completely block out 1wtc, which is a great shame because i'ts a classic shot of lower manhattan from here. better perhaps if 2 and 4 wtc could swap places.

You mean 2 and 3 WTC.

marshall · #**24326** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 7:18 PM**

Ugh why the hell are the news outlets STILL calling the site "ground zero"? CNN's tagline was "president to tour ground zero"..It's not ground zero anymore people, it is the new world trade center site. Ground zero was when it was still a pile of rubble. When are these news reporters going to stop calling it that?

CarlosV · #**24327** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 8:13 PM**

Ground Zero no more!

DSC_0078 copy by Ceva321, on Flickr

hunser · #**24328** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 8:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by marshall

Ugh why the hell are the news outlets STILL calling the site "ground zero"? CNN's tagline was "president to tour ground zero"..It's not ground zero anymore people, it is the new world trade center site. Ground zero was when it was still a pile of rubble. When are these news reporters going to stop calling it that?

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Originally Posted by CarlosV

Ground Zero no more!

I agree, it's absolutely ridiculous and inappropriate to call the WTC site Ground Zero.

RockMont · #**24329** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 8:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by hunser

I agree, it's absolutely ridiculous and inappropriate to call the WTC site Ground Zero.

As I said before. I can't remember if it was on here, or skyscrapercity, I'm very proud to refer to it as the World Trade Center once again. Maybe the "New World Trade Center", and NOT Ground Zero. The term "Ground Zero" can be, Thank God for major favours, a thing of the past.

NYC GUY · #**24330** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 9:36 PM**

I have to correct people all the time cause they always say ground zero and say you mean the World Trade Center?

Hudson11 · #**24331** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 9:59 PM**

so wheres Obama?

marshall · #**24332** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 10:22 PM**

Yeah I don't get why these snivelling reporters are always calling it "ground zero" Its like they want to keep associating the site with tragedy..Time to move on people. It's called the World Trade Center. As for Obama, I didn't see any news reports of him actually visiting the site. Not sure the big deal tho, since the actual topping out won't be for a few more weeks.

SouthAmboyGuy · #**24333** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 10:58 PM**

I always found the term "ground zero" offensive. Pearl Harbor was never called "ground zero." I always called it the World Trade Center, and will continue to do so.

YankeesfaninUT · #**24334** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 11:03 PM**

An article in the New York Daily News said President Obama and the First Lady arrived just after 6pm. They were expected to tour the site and the tower, sign the topping out beam and meet with union workers. Then they are attending multiple fundraisers in Manhattan.

Davidsam52 · #**24335** Posted **Jun 14, 2012, 11:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by marshall

Ugh why the hell are the news outlets STILL calling the site "ground zero"? CNN's tagline was "president to tour ground zero"..It's not ground zero anymore people, it is the new world trade center site. Ground zero was when it was still a pile of rubble. When are these news reporters going to stop calling it that?

They're not going to....which is why a while back I made a somewhat risky? suggestion to call the memorial the "Ground Zero Memorial & Museum at the New World Trade Center".