Some of My Stuff

[Ebola]

Random building:



The WTC:

[maria]

Those are awesome! I wish buildings could be that cool

[Ebola]

They are. They're real.





Wait till 2011.

[tyler]

Wow, I haven't been keeping up with the WTC site since Liebeskind was working on it. I really liked his plan. It's changed a lot since then....

[Ebola]

The only element of Liebeskind's WTC Master Plan that remains is the concept of ascending buildings. Everything else is totally different. He was ousted from his own project. I'll make an up-to-date thread on the WTC.

[maria]

That is really amazing. I can't wait to see the real thing.

[Ebola]

Most of it will be done by 2011.

If you think that is amazing, wait till you see renderings of what the city is planning for midtown. It will be like the trade center on steroids.

[tyler]

Where can I find these renderings? Are you talking about civic buildings, or regular private development?

[Ebola]

It's all mixed. Some private, some city.

NYC is a growing city; therefore, they city has massive plans for its future. By 2011, NYC will be out of office space and there won't be a lot of res space left. There wont be many plots left on Manhattan. There's only one way to go: up

So....

West of the Empire State Building, picture about 20-40 skyscrapers. Some will be taller than even the freedom tower. Let's hope the NIMBYs all die.

This first pic. was made by the city of new york:




^only concepts so don't get your hopes up

[tyler]

^The tower in that concept looks kinda like the FT....

I was hoping that New York would've been voted to host the 2012 Olympics. That new stadium near the convention center would've been cool.

[Ebola]

(They're planning a 90-story hotel for the convention center right now)


Thank god NY didn't win. That's where the new towers will go. It's the only space left in NY. My friend says we'll get new twin towers (1300-1600' range). Anything is possible though.

Official renderings will be out in September. And they look like the Freedom Tower because the same architects who designed the WTC will design these buildings, most likely. David Childs, designer of the Freedom Tower, says the WTC isn't as important when compared to this project. He says this will be NYC's biggest project ever, a modern Rockefeller Center, one with "many tall buildings."


This quote is from a government doc that was just released:
This new mega-project is so large that "it would constitute the fourth largest business district in the United States, after midtown Manhattan, the Chicago Loop, and lower Manhattan." You have any idea what that means for the scale of this new complex? It's like building the LA and Dallas and Houston skylines in Manhattan.

It would most likely be the biggest single construction project in the world.

One day, it's likely that one of us will live in one of the rez towers created because of this new complex.

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Aside from that you have the hotel Penn and Drake sites in Midtown, both which will be the seeds for buildings taller than the Empire State Building.

And aside from that, this information was just released a few hours ago about the new MSG:
"It includes two towers whose spires will be taller than 1,400 feet" (These may be the twin towers my buddy was bragging about.) So basically they may be taller than the Sears Tower in Chi-town.

Today was a great day for me. Today, I can now say to all of you, without any doubt, that by the year 2016, the Empire State building will not even be in the top 10 tallest buildings of NYC.

In English: NYC is having a skyscraper boom larger than any other in history.

[Swoosh]

That's so awesome, Ebola- and here us n00bs over in North Carolina have been freaking out about Freedom Tower.

Personally, I don't care if it makes me look like a tourist - I will ALWAYS look straight up when i walk past a skyscraper - the feeling is so cool and its one of the main reasons I love the city.

[Ebola]

But at least, in my book, North Carolina has 3 skyscrapers. One is u/c.

Ebola’s Sacred Rules:

-Tower: any structure that reaches at least 100 feet above grade, usually used for observation and/or communications; towers are not buildings
-Building: any fully inhabitable structure
-Low-rise: a building with fewer than 10 floors
-High-rise: a building with 10 floors or more
-Skyscraper: a building of at least 30 floors whose structural roof, spire, or, crown reaches at least 600 above grade
-Supertall: a building of at least 50 floors whose structural roof, spire, or, crown reaches at least 1,000 feet above grade
-Megatall: a building of at least 100 floors whose structural roof, spire, or, crown reaches at least 1,600 feet above grade

[Web]

where are the NC scyscrapers, i know theres 1 in charlotte that has all these silver pointy things on top but what else?

[Web]

theres nothing else to devolpe in NYC? they could like extend manhatten, that would be awsome but its probably not posible, technicly it is but all the other crap like laws and shipping lanes and other complications