Miami: New Downtown Wolfson campus (WOW!) - Page 3

MIAMISKYLINE · #41 Posted **Sep 18, 2007, 6:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by MAH4546

Problem: Design a large building that will share a site with one of Miami's most famous buildings (Freedom Tower), without taking that building out of the skyline.

To be sincere, this "Freedom Tower" is already getting to my nerves. This freaking tower is always bringing problems to future constructions nearby Byscayne Park. I'm not anti Cuban, but please!!. Give architects and future projects a break.

This new building is spectacular. Has it been approved?

William Thayne · #42 Posted **Sep 19, 2007, 9:16 PM**

Lets get the 850 ft Met 3 Building complete and get 1200 FT Building to to center stage Dowtown Miami before we even think about building a structure of that elegance. Building like that comes when you get a little more hieght with the citys structure of tall buildings dont get me wrong its beautiful, but we still need a couple of taller building first.

William Thayne · #43 Posted **Sep 19, 2007, 9:22 PM**

Another thing i am concerned with Miami is they are building all these pretty buildings, for what a category 5 Hurricane to make a mess of them or even a possible category 3, or 4!

brickell · #44 Posted **Sep 19, 2007, 10:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by William Thayne

Another thing i am concerned with Miami is they are building all these pretty buildings, for what a category 5 Hurricane to make a mess of them or even a possible category 3, or 4!

You could say the same of a lot of cities. The building code is one of the toughest in the country for a reason.

Alliance · #45 Posted **Sep 21, 2007, 4:07 AM**

Wow.

Insert envy here.

bsereny · #46 Posted **Sep 23, 2007, 4:28 AM**

I thought Terra still owned the land behind the Freedom Tower and was planing on building a tower there. When did they give it up?

Goody · #47 Posted **Sep 23, 2007, 6:25 PM**

cool building but ugh... lets not ruin the old one. Put it somewhere else

MIAMISKYLINE · #48 Posted **Sep 23, 2007, 6:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Goody

cool building but ugh... lets not ruin the old one. Put it somewhere else

That old building is a pain in the neck. Because of it many projects are not going to be approved.

Goody · #49 Posted **Sep 23, 2007, 7:09 PM**

^ Who gives a shit. Make it a dense low/midrise area like that around the Custom House in Boston. Trust me you want the building to stay the way it is. New glassy boxes just arnt the same- they are nice but you need old with new.

MIAMISKYLINE · #50 Posted **Sep 24, 2007, 6:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Goody

^ Who gives a shit. Make it a dense low/midrise area like that around the Custom House in Boston. Trust me you want the building to stay the way it is. New glassy boxes just arnt the same- they are nice but you need old with new.

I agree with you , but sadly no project can be approved if it is near that building. That is why the old and new crap is not taking place at that little area.

CGII · #51 Posted **Sep 25, 2007, 3:29 AM**

Eh...it's a great design but I have two problems with it.

1.) CCTV in Beijing. Total ripoff.

2.) Completely overshadows Freedom Tower. It actually looks like it's trying to eat it. Not really much of a problem, but if they were trying to keep Freedom Tower prolific like they claim then they failed miserably.