I never saw the logic in that. Why throw away perfectly good office space for air. I'm glad they finally regained their minds. The birdcage designs just weren't doing it.
Keep in mind that the height was specifically for the broadcasting towers. (The office space was as the site plan suggested). The broadcasters were originally planning to build their own 2,000 ft tower. But when plans were announced for a tall tower at the WTC site, they saw a chance to get back into the city, and the original site. Love it or hate it, it would have been massive for sure...
By the end of November 2003, the design that Childs and Nordenson were proposing was a tower 1,776-feet tall with an antenna that would reach 2,000 feet. "I suggested this thing be 2,000 feet, because I knew that the higher it could be, the better it was in terms of broadcasting, and that the whole purpose of having something this tall was to create this platform for the antennas," Nordenson told FRONTLINE. But Libeskind thought a 2,000-foot tower would overwhelm his master plan, and insisted that the tower top off at 1,776 feet.
At the unveiling of the compromise design in December 2003 and again at the laying of the Freedom Tower's cornerstone in July 2004, LMDC officials insisted that the tower would end at the symbolic 1,776 feet -- a 1,500-foot building topped off by an asymmetrical 276-foot spire.
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Keep in mind that the height was specifically for the broadcasting towers. (The office space was as the site plan suggested). The broadcasters were originally planning to build their own 2,000 ft tower. But when plans were announced for a tall tower at the WTC site, they saw a chance to get back into the city, and the original site. Love it or hate it, it would have been massive for sure...
It was lightyears better than the compromise to me. There aren't any details to see from those renderings, the broadcast tower is just a skeleton of what would have actually been built.
At 2,000 ft, they could have worked up the height of the other towers...
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Sorry so many, but I figured you guys would appreciate the unique views I got Nov. 3-4 from the Millenium Hilton of the Ground Zero site. We were in a very nice room on the 31st floor.
The double glazing and the angle made it extremely difficult to get the footprints of Towers 3 and 4. There were excavators over there though, working all day Saturday. The big spotlights also made for horrible reflections when shooting at night.
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will they demo it as the new building gets underway..
The old parking structure will not be demolished as it is required for the subway underneath it. The surviving parking structure was demolished 2 years ago. The FT will be built around it.
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