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Old Posted May 2, 2014, 12:24 AM
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Old Posted May 2, 2014, 11:41 AM
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I was in Tokyo two weeks ago.

Among other activities, I could admire the Skytree (634 meters high) and even visited the observatory decks.

What I wanted to say, in comparison with 1WTC, is that: although the Skytree is not a skyscraper, just a telecommunication tower, it has such a unique structure, that it can even look like a skyscraper when it's seen from far away.
Moreover the spire of Skytree is much more thick than the toothpick on 1WTC. That's why I had fun to imagine 1WTC with... the spire of Skytree (on Google Sketchup)

Please let me know what you think about it

By the way, the spire of Skytree is almost the exact same height of 1WTC's spire: it's around 130 meters tall.

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I've been to the top of the Skytree. It's a beautiful structure and has the best observatory I've ever been to. It's a shame One WTC isn't a 600+ m structure.

As for your idea… Sorry, I appreciate your computer work, but I'm not a fan of the Skytree top on the WTC. It just looks too top-heavy, and it's not clean-looking and seamless (which is what most people miss about the scrapped randome), but still industrial and skeletal looking except on a much larger, more imposing scale than the existing antenna. Still, can't knock your passion!
     
     
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Old Posted May 2, 2014, 9:04 PM
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I've always thought the top of Sky Tree looks like the bottom of a crutch.
     
     
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Old Posted May 2, 2014, 10:18 PM
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Yeah, but its big enough to hold at least 100 people on the top platform... It could easily be used as an outdoor obs deck at 2080 feet.
     
     
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I've always thought the top of Sky Tree looks like the bottom of a crutch.
It's not the most beautiful spire in the world, but at least you can see it from very far away. And it's fully part of the structure: one could not imagine Skytree without its spire !

Whereas the spire of 1WTC is too thin, and... well it has been said enough times...

Everything would have been so better with the white radome
     
     
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Old Posted May 2, 2014, 10:34 PM
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1WTC's spire actually looks huge close up but it does look pretty thin from far away, but then again the building would look weird without it.

It looks amazing at night however, I wonder if when the building is fully done, it, the comm. rings and the mechanical floors will all be lit up throughout the night?

One can only hope
     
     
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Old Posted May 2, 2014, 11:21 PM
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The communication rigns will not, but the mechanical floors should be.
     
     
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Old Posted May 3, 2014, 12:12 AM
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Old Posted May 3, 2014, 4:07 PM
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It looks amazing at night however, I wonder if when the building is fully done, it, the comm. rings and the mechanical floors will all be lit up throughout the night?

One can only hope
Actually none of the building will be lit up at night, other than the spire, when it's complete. The current lighting is construction lighting, once the construction is complete all of those lights will just be offices and most of them will be closed at night.

The spire I believe is a LED lightning system like that atop Empire State Building though so it will be.
     
     
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Old Posted May 3, 2014, 9:36 PM
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Actually none of the building will be lit up at night, other than the spire, when it's complete. The current lighting is construction lighting, once the construction is complete all of those lights will just be offices and most of them will be closed at night.

The spire I believe is a LED lightning system like that atop Empire State Building though so it will be.
l'm sure many of the office floors will be lit at night. The original towers office floors were lit at all hours of the night.
     
     
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Old Posted May 3, 2014, 9:53 PM
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^^ It's all dependent on how many employees are still at work.
     
     
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Actually none of the building will be lit up at night, other than the spire, when it's complete. The current lighting is construction lighting, once the construction is complete all of those lights will just be offices and most of them will be closed at night.

The spire I believe is a LED lightning system like that atop Empire State Building though so it will be.
Uh, the podium (base) is also gonna be lit at night.
     
     
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Old Posted May 4, 2014, 2:51 AM
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Actually none of the building will be lit up at night, other than the spire, when it's complete. The current lighting is construction lighting, once the construction is complete all of those lights will just be offices and most of them will be closed at night.

The spire I believe is a LED lightning system like that atop Empire State Building though so it will be.
I read somewhere the mechanical floors will be lit up when it's complete

It looks weird with the top dark (other than the observatory floors)
     
     
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Old Posted May 4, 2014, 9:27 AM
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Uh, the podium (base) is also gonna be lit at night.
Yeah, that too. Originally it was just going to reflect ambient light from the surrounding buildings.
     
     
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Old Posted May 4, 2014, 9:29 AM
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l'm sure many of the office floors will be lit at night. The original towers office floors were lit at all hours of the night.
Yeah, it just won't be blue construction lights. It will be regular white office lights.
     
     
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Old Posted May 4, 2014, 5:53 PM
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Nice to see the zipper closing. I hope the entire WTC is built out reasonably soon. But as companies downsize and turn to tech more and more to replace jobs formerly done by people (think automated trading, self driving cars which will put a huge wound in the insurance industry), demand for office space shrinks more and more.
     
     
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Nice to see the zipper closing. I hope the entire WTC is built out reasonably soon. But as companies downsize and turn to tech more and more to replace jobs formerly done by people (think automated trading, self driving cars which will put a huge wound in the insurance industry), demand for office space shrinks more and more.
Right, except actually it isn't shrinking.
     
     
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