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OneWorldTradeCenter · #**501** Posted **Jan 12, 2010, 1:40 PM**

I dislike this building.

eburress · #**502** Posted **Jan 12, 2010, 4:22 PM**

I don't actually think it's that bad and it's a vast improvement over the architecture that surrounds it.

HomeInMyShoes · #**503** Posted **Jan 12, 2010, 9:35 PM**

It's scale still seems a bit off to me, but I'm liking it more and more. I'm not a big fan of the skywalks between the towers, but it's just so impressive from that side angle.

PhxPavilion · #**504** Posted **Jan 12, 2010, 10:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by kenratboy

How can there be only 1,000 rooms!? Seems like 5,000 would be easy, if not more.

When you have 11,811 sq foot rooms is it any wonder?

steveve · #**505** Posted **Jan 12, 2010, 11:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by OneWorldTradeCenter

I dislike this building.

It's definitely different and something we haven't really seen before... It's got massive height and size... an enormous building..

I'm not so fond of this building either but it's unique in its own sense

Pizzuti · #**506** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 8:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by eburress

I don't actually think it's that bad and it's a vast improvement over the architecture that surrounds it.

What's that supposed to mean?

Duffstuff129 · #**507** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 8:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pizzuti

What's that supposed to mean?

He doesn't like ugly, featureless, Brutalist architecture?

Pizzuti · #**508** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 8:23 PM**

I don't think that's what he meant; I've certainly never been in the Masjid al Haram but I think its about as far from "brutalist" as you can get.

Duffstuff129 · #**509** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 8:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pizzuti

I don't think that's what he meant; I've certainly never been in the Masjid al Haram but I think its about as far from "brutalist" as you can get.

It's fun to be offended and stand up for the "little guy" (a religion with over a billion people) but I'm sure he was talking about the massive sea of concrete bunkers surrounding this building for miles than one relatively small piece of architecture.

kw5150 · #**510** Posted **Jan 15, 2010, 7:54 PM**

How convoluted and irresponsible. Who gets to go inside? Only the rich and famous. What a drastic blow to a big city and the world. The excess of the rich in current society is disgusting.

Pizzuti · #**511** Posted **Jan 16, 2010, 12:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by Duffstuff129

It's fun to be offended and stand up for the "little guy" (a religion with over a billion people) but I'm sure he was talking about the massive sea of concrete bunkers surrounding this building for miles than one relatively small piece of architecture.

Not offended, just wanted clarity. The wink thing made me think there was subtext beyond the surrounding low- and mid-rises.

eburress · #**512** Posted **Jan 16, 2010, 6:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Duffstuff129

It's fun to be offended and stand up for the "little guy" (a religion with over a billion people) but I'm sure he was talking about the massive sea of concrete bunkers surrounding this building for miles than one relatively small piece of architecture.

Sorry for the confusion, but no, there was no subtext or agenda. I was talking about much of the rest of the city - the ugly, featureless, Brutalist architecture.

747 · #**513** Posted **Jan 16, 2010, 7:43 AM**

it sure is interesting

SkyscrapersOfNewYork · #**514** Posted **Jan 19, 2010, 6:31 PM**

simply bad architecture of gargantuan proportions...

OneWorldTradeCenter · #**515** Posted **Jan 19, 2010, 6:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkyscrapersOfNewYork

simply bad architecture of gargantuan proportions...

I agree 100%!!!

howardroark · #**516** Posted **Jan 30, 2010, 1:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by vandelay

(Moscow University).

sammyg · #**517** Posted **Jan 30, 2010, 7:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pizzuti

I don't think that's what he meant; I've certainly never been in the Masjid al Haram but I think its about as far from "brutalist" as you can get.

The problem is that the Masjid al-Haram is the only thing left that isn't an ugly concrete box, thanks to the al-Sauds.

alex1 · #**518** Posted **Jan 31, 2010, 10:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by eburress

Sorry for the confusion, but no, there was no subtext or agenda. I was talking about much of the rest of the city - the ugly, featureless, Brutalist architecture.

i don't know. Seems that the surrounding areas is quite rich in how the city reacts to the street. This mega-project doesn't have that going for it. I do think that architecture is more than just what something looks like.

eburress · #**519** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 12:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by alex1

i don't know. Seems that the surrounding areas is quite rich in how the city reacts to the street. This mega-project doesn't have that going for it. I do think that architecture is more than just what something looks like.

Maybe so, but I was purely comparing the aesthetic.

newyorkthing10 · #**520** Posted **Feb 22, 2010, 5:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by Rise To The Top

Also, the renders don't look like 577m, it looks more like 400ish.

The rendering looks like 350 and with the pinnacle it looks like 420