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Originally Posted by Renton
Any news on that horrible antenna they want to use now? Been reading around. Haven't come upon any news articles since that announcement a couple months back. Really bugs me with this change. Either don't add an antenna or figure a way to enclose it somehow like the original idea. I see spheres and other objects on tall buildings around the world. I find it hard to believe we can't figure a way to make it work on WTC 1..
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That's what the PA gets for hiring Durst as their tenant supervisor. How they managed to throw numbers into changing the design is beyond me, but until something else comes up then we're just gonna have to deal with the bare mast. If the randome costs 20 million to maintain then how much would it cost to maintain this unprotected antenna from the elements? Rust is an example.
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Originally Posted by Roadcruiser1
It has, but they are building a mall underneath the World Financial Center and that is why it is boarded up. Once it's done the people that own the World Financial Center hopes it can rival the mall in the World Trade Center.
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The WFC was never trying to compete with the WTC; they were only upgrading some of the complex's features so that it will maintain the uniformity of the site, most likely since underground retail will stretch all the way from Fulton Sreet. They actually boarded up the entrance to remove glass and other features so that they can construct the headhouse for the Route 9A underpass. The plywood acts as an air conditioning barrier.
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Originally Posted by MadGnome
Just a guess, but those beams might be for distributing the load from the mast guys. It's not like you can just screw eyebolts into the roof for those suckers.
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That's perimeter steel. Core steel would be thinner, and the mast would be nowhere near appearing until the concrete contractor has reached roof height (Zen's old diagrams shows that there is a platform made out of concrete at the very top of the core that the mast sits upon).
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