NEW YORK | Bank of America Tower | 1,200' Pinnacle / 945' Roof | 53 FLOORS | 2009 - Page 15

hunser · #**281** Posted **Mar 30, 2011, 4:36 PM**

NYC4Life · #**282** Posted **Apr 4, 2011, 7:41 PM**

Now if only the Times Building can light up their spire, that would make for an even greater band of lit spires.

NYguy · #**283** Posted **Apr 8, 2011, 11:09 AM**

^ That spire has lighting, it's just not very visible. BTW, the lighting as shown in the above photos is just a sample of what we will see with the spire of the Freedom Tower.

Vincent Desjardins

NYguy · #**284** Posted **Apr 18, 2011, 6:52 PM**

j.s. clark

uaarkson · #**285** Posted **Apr 18, 2011, 7:58 PM**

Overheard some tourists at the Top of the Rock refer to this tower as "The Razor." Is this its new nickname?

NYguy · #**286** Posted **Apr 20, 2011, 9:00 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by uaarkson

Overheard some tourists at the Top of the Rock refer to this tower as "The Razor." Is this its new nickname?

I hope not

NYguy · #**287** Posted **Aug 1, 2011, 12:05 PM**

helentravelling

animatedmartian · #**288** Posted **Aug 5, 2011, 11:54 AM**

ToddHellsKitchen

animatedmartian · #**289** Posted **Aug 7, 2011, 8:22 PM**

Dan Nguyen @ New York City

tower · #**290** Posted **Aug 7, 2011, 10:06 PM**

kickser · #**291** Posted **Aug 16, 2011, 11:09 AM**

I just saw an amazing Disc Channel doc abt the features they put into 1BP to make it a green bldg. I simply love this tower, and now even more.

They used 60% recycled steel for the frame.

51% of the carbage that has been produced to make the beams was used in the concrete.

They collect rainwater, and cool it down during the night to avoid firther heating.

The glass has a special foil on the upper and lower parts to avoid sun coming directly into the bldg.

They clean the air that comes into the building.

mindblowing project.

NYguy · #**292** Posted **Sep 9, 2011, 2:47 AM**

German Regueira

hunser · #**293** Posted **Sep 10, 2011, 12:52 PM**

Bank of America Tower and One World Trade Center von RBudhu auf Flickr

NYC4Life · #**294** Posted **Sep 11, 2011, 10:50 PM**

Couldn't find a thread on Bryant Park or related thread on this site so i'm posting the article here:

NY Daily News

2,753 empty chairs mark loss of 9/11 victims in haunting Bryant Park memorial

LORE CROGHAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, September 11th 2011, 5:08 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/..._memorial.html

Don Emmert/AFP/Getty
2,753 empty chairs put in place to remember the lives that were lost on 9/11 sit in Bryant Park.

Quote:

A sea of empty seats, 2,753 in all, flooded the lawn of Bryant Park in waves of loss Sunday.

A poignant exhibition featured one vacant folding chair for each person who died at the World Trade Center ten years ago. The chairs stood silent, 35 closely spaced rows of them, completely covering the lawn.

Jochen Hellback, 45, of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, found the chair exhibit haunting.

"It's so spare - and they turn south towards the Twin Towers," he said.

On the terrace above the roped-off lawn, a companion exhibition called Collective Memory took place.

A group of women dressed and coiffed like early 1960s secretaries and two conservatively dressed men sat in front of manual typewriters.

They took dictation on a very personal subject: Participants answered the question, "What would you like the world to remember about 9/11?"

Dov Lichtenberg, a visitor from Tel Aviv, had a ready response.

"The most important lesson is you should take your enemies seriously," said Lichtenberg, 69. "They mean exactly what they say."

Frank Dammers, 59, an artist from Amsterdam who's been doing paintings of what the new 1 World Trade Center will look like, took a totally different tack.

"There's too much hate in this world," he said. "We are all the same."

One of the transcribing typists was artist Sheryl Oring. She plans to turn people's answers, spelled out on slips of white paper, into a future exhibition.

Participants kept thanking her for letting them sound off. Not everyone was into her project, though.

"Some people find it very cathartic," said Oring, 45. "Some people backed away; it's too hard."

lcroghan@nydailynews.com