People are going to call it One World Trade Center or some abbreviation of that. (WTC probably)
It’s OK. It’s been nice to have something blocking the sky in the way the sky was supposed to blocked when you looked down one of the avenues.
I’m with you.
You seem to be under the impression that the US government built the WTC.
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Among other things, I suspect the average rate of pay for average construction worker on the BK was quite a lot less than that of people working in NYC.
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Holy hamburgers, you’re right about that. A little more research, and it looks like the Burj was practically built with slave labor. Skilled carpenters were getting about $7 per day, and labor got around $4.50 per day. Current union wages in NYC for a journeyman carpenter appear to be in the area of $50 an hour, so a couple billion in labor for the build is not unthinkable.
& a fair portion of the Burj labor was ex-pats sending money back home, living/working there because they made more than if they were home.
I think it’s kind of meh. I work in front of it and can see it from my house since I live on the Palisades…I guess it stands out is the most I can say about it.
This past winter falling ice from the tower caused a total clusterfrock inside of the PATH that was honestly kind of terrifying in terms of feeling like in a REAL emergency all PATH riders would be mostly screwed. I am being squashed and pushed and strangled somewhere inside this photo…it was a total mess.
Same here, except I’m seeing it from the other side – it’s right in the middle of the view from my apartment in Brooklyn.
Really, it doesn’t do anything for me. I don’t find it offensive or anything, but it’s just another tower in the skyline.
I was hoping we would go with a modernized version of the twin towers, do that the Manhattan skyline would look more or less like it did for so many years. Oh well.
Looking at the skyline picture I like it, scrolling down to the view from the St. Nicholas National Shrine… um…
I haven’t seen it in person, only pictures. It’s got a twisting/tapering thing going on, which is fine, but that doesn’t go all the way to the ground. The bottom hundred feet or so are just plain vertical sides. I don’t like that it transitions from one thing to another; it looks like they changed their mind in the middle of building it. I have no idea why they did that.
I like the look of the building. I agree with everyone who thinks the name and height and other unnecessary U-S-A! stuff is hokey and stupid.
I think it’s absolutely beautiful.
Maybe it looks better in person?
IIRC, it was changed after they’d started construction due to security concerns, since the old base was thought to be vulnerable to a 1992 like car-bombing.
Kinda feel for the poor architects. Its hard enough to build a sky-scraper that makes everyone happy. Even harder if you have to worry about a bunch of crazy but industrious jyhadists trying to knock it down.
But that said, I like the new building. Even if it wasn’t intentional, I think the base does a good job evoking the Statue of Liberty, and the upper portion resists the temptation to get too artsy.
Thank god they changed the name, though.
I quite like it. In person it looks pretty impressive, and I think it adds a lot to the skyline. True, rebuilding the original towers would have been cool, but they would have been an even bigger target for terrorists than 1WTC, and IIRC, before 9/11 people weren’t too pleased with the “big rectangular prisms” design.
It’s an irresistible target for terrorists. Not saying it shouldn’t have been built. But still.