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Originally Posted by gramsjdg
Those are some disappointing graphics with regards to the highest occupied floors. Looks like a LOT of apparently wasted superstructure above the mechanical floors
-around 200 feet by the looks of it, and that's not counting the spire. That equates to a highest occupied floor/observation deck of 1200 ft for a building that's 1414 ft to the actual roof.
The original twin towers observatory was at 1313 ft with an actual roof height of 1368 ft.
What gives?
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The WTC had very large floor plates. The upper portion of this tower is a very small space, amounts to basically the spire of the building. Maybe they will put a private club up there,
like the space in the higher portions of 30 Hudson.
Also, the WTC towers had 4 msf to work with. There is a limited amount of floorspace to work with in this building, which isn't actually considered one of the "large" New York towers
in terms of floor space.
This is a tower that's being driven not only by the need for new office space in the area, but by the developers desire to build a skyline icon, which has been their goal since announcing plans
for a large tower here. The building doesn't have to be as tall as it is. It's that tall for the above reason.
An imagined space in those higher places. Practical? Maybe not.