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Post by Ebola on Jun 15, 2007 22:19:24 GMT -5
Moynihan Station - the New Penn Station The $14 billion plan for building a new pair of towers - taller than the destroyed Twin Towers - and the New Madison Square Garden is rapidly advancing. The City and State of New York hope to begin the public review process for the project, aka Moynihan Station, in the next few weeks. Obviously, there’s a lot of speculation, and I cannot confirm anything except: "the city is planning two buildings over 1,400 feet tall.” Most of us New Yorkers believe that they are new twin towers. I would not be surprised. If they are new twins, I hope Bin Laden sees the renderings.
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Post by tyler on Jun 15, 2007 22:35:20 GMT -5
^I've seen that rendering of the atrium/transportation center/whatever thing before. Any renderings of the towers?
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Post by Ebola on Jun 15, 2007 22:42:10 GMT -5
You'll have to wait a few more weeks to see the new towers. The word around here is that Foster and Childs designed it. And you know what you get when Norman Foster's on a skyscraper project and has control: an insane height and high-quality design. This is only something someone threw together to show off the massing. ^The old NIMBY design. *Puke*
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Post by Swoosh on Jun 15, 2007 22:50:26 GMT -5
So what does this mean for the Freedom Tower?
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Post by Ebola on Jun 15, 2007 22:55:46 GMT -5
So what does this mean for the Freedom Tower? It means nothing at all because the WTC project and this project are two wholly seperate entities. The only thing they have in common is the $14 billion price tag and the fact that they make NIMBYs commit suicide because they can't be stopped. By the way, it's not "Freedom Tower" anymore. The name is now officially "One World Trade Center." I think FT will stick anyway.
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Post by tyler on Jun 15, 2007 23:42:31 GMT -5
^Yeah, FT probably will stick. One World Trade Center is the professional name that the office tenants will use. Tourists will call it Freedom Tower.
And btw, for those who don't know what a NIMBY is, it stands for Not In My Back Yard, and it's basically all those people who gripe and complain and get in the way of progress.
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Post by Ebola on Jun 16, 2007 23:45:26 GMT -5
I don't know about any of you, but I just got really excited because my friend called them the tallest twin towers in the world, but he sounds unsure. He'll show me elevations when he gets them. I think the Petronas are 1,483 feet tall. We can top that. I never did like them.
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Post by Web on Jun 22, 2007 13:52:58 GMT -5
i think they should stick with the whole 5 buildings thing... i bet none of it is going to happen though. The station looks cool!
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Post by Ebola on Jun 22, 2007 14:56:25 GMT -5
No, you must be thinking of the WTC, which is a different project that has nothing to do with this. Moynihan Station includes 2 buildings over 1,400 feet tall and 2 buildings around 900 feet tall. It will be the same size as the WTC. Aside from the WTC project, and this new development, you have the Brookfield development, which will be bigger than the WTC. Totally separate from everything else, you have the Westside rail yards development, the 4th largest business district in the USA to-be, which will be bigger than the WTC too. I don't think people understand the size any of this. In simple terms, the paragraph above means that NY will be building the equivalent of over 20 Empire State Buildings all almost at the same time. Not even Dubai will be building that much. The paragraph above contains over 50 billion dollars of construction, and it doesn’t even include all of the solo buildings that will be going up. That much construction would bankrupt just about every US state several times over.
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Post by Nina ♥ on Jun 22, 2007 15:58:06 GMT -5
Wow, isn't Donald Trump paying for them?
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Post by Ebola on Jun 22, 2007 16:02:04 GMT -5
Wow, isn't Donald Trump paying for them? Are you talking about his plan to build the Twin Towers taller? No... the master plan is picked for the WTC. This is a totally different project. Trump isn't involved in any of this. But soon, I bet you, the Trump is going to want to want a piece of one of these projects because it may give him a chance to build the world's tallest building in New York City, something that he has been trying to do for many decades.
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Post by Nina ♥ on Jun 22, 2007 16:34:53 GMT -5
Wow, yup thats trump for you! Have you ever met him? I went to trump towers but I didn't meet him
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Post by Ebola on Jun 22, 2007 16:42:10 GMT -5
I've seen him. I've seen a lot of other famous people too, like Letterman (many times) and O'Donnel once. It looks like a fat hog in real life too.
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Post by Swoosh on Jun 22, 2007 19:25:56 GMT -5
...and O'Donnel once. It looks like a fat hog in real life too. Wow, a tad harsh there. I just want to put in my two cents and say how incredibly awesome this project seems so far. Hopefully they can translate the awesome off of paper and into real life over then ext decade...
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Post by Web on Jun 23, 2007 10:14:29 GMT -5
but ebola, how much of this project do you think will actully happen?
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