Tallest building back to NYC

[Wynn]

http://1010wins.com/topstories/winstopstories_story_354091301.html

Taiwan: Okay if NYC Has Tallest Building

Dec 20, 2003 9:09 am US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK)

Plans to build the world's tallest skyscraper in New York City barely caused a ripple Saturday in the town currently housing the world's tallest building — Taiwan's capital, Taipei.

The island's media paid little attention to the plan announced in New York to build a 1,776-foot glass tower on the site of the World Trade Center.

The New York structure, dubbed the Freedom Tower, would come in higher than Taipei 101, which stands at 1,676 feet.

On Saturday, Taiwan's mass-circulation daily China Times put a picture of the New York project on page 11, without any comment.

Taiwanese commenting on the Freedom Tower said it was only to be expected Taipei 101 could not last as the world's tallest building.

"With technology advancing constantly, it's only a matter of time before a higher building will be completed," said architect Richard Lee. "Man always wants to push his limits," he said.

Others agreed the New York plans were not a challenge to Taipei.

"We know they will build taller towers elsewhere, let's enjoy ours while we can," said Wayne Chang, 29, an accountant on a weekend shopping trip.

The building in Taiwan recently supplanted Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Towers as the tallest building in the world. The 110-story World Trade Center towers were 1,350 feet tall.

Drawings and models unveiled in New York on Friday showed the skyscraper project, supported by crisscrossing cables meant to resemble another nearby icon: the Brooklyn Bridge. A spire at the top suggests the torch-bearing arm of the Statue of Liberty lifted high in New York harbor.

Gov. George Pataki said the building "will show the world that freedom will always triumph over terror."

 

[ChefWide]

My last appartment in NYC was in Battery Park City, all the windows on our side of the building were blown out, when the towers came down. I walked to work through the towers every day, stopped at the same Sbarro's for bagel and coffee on my way through.

I didn't lose anyone I knew, but when the images of my sons crushed nursery school came through, I cried like a child, wouldn't let him out of my sight the whole day.

I hope some good can come out of this nightmare, not just another round of PATRIOT bills, but some actual long term good. So far I am at a loss: what lessons were learned? what positive has come out of this horror?

 

[breathinbleedout]

The structure will have windmill on top of supposadly being able to handle 40% of its enery needs. I saw screw the windmill and hook this bad boy with some surface to air missiles.

 

[mdd]

wow bro, why wasnt he in school that day?

when i was testing for FDNY it was odd hearing the stories of people who were actually there. you really dont get the full effect of it until you hear it first hand

 

[ChefWide]

wow bro, why wasnt he in school that day?

when i was testing for FDNY it was odd hearing the stories of people who were actually there. you really dont get the full effect of it until you hear it first hand

WHOA, sorry, we had moved by then, I live in Iceland now. I was commenting on how fate brought me to a different place, and had I not bailed out on that company, he WOULD have been there.

 

[mdd]

oh ok, good to hear... thought it was one of those freak stories where i'm not feeling good today i'm not gonna go to work/school

 

[Wynn]

That is good to hear ChefWide. One of the bosses at my firm has only one son who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. He took a vacation to Hawaii or some other Pacific isle that week.

 

[ChefWide]

No, we were not even on the same continent. I do know a dude who lived up in the Archive on Greenwich street (close enough to have their whole street covered with a half inch of dust and debris) who stayed home that day. His wife is totally disturbed now, really sad, every time he goes to work she has a crisis.

 

[solidg]

I think that it is awesome. Its gonna cost something like 1.5 bil to build.

 

[Testosterone boy]

Leasing it may prove interesting though. You know it would be an attractive target.

So security will be nightmarish.

 

[JohnnyMolson]

I think that rebuilding bigger and better than ever is the right thing to do. And I agree with putting a SAM battery on the roof.

 

[perkele]

My last appartment in NYC was in Battery Park City, all the windows on our side of the building were blown out, when the towers came down. I walked to work through the towers every day, stopped at the same Sbarro's for bagel and coffee on my way through.

There's no skyscrapers where I live or anykind of really tall buildings so do they look as huge as I can imagine?

 

[mdd]

uhm, i guess it is kinda weird if u stand at the base of one and look up

 

[anabolicmd]

My last appartment in NYC was in Battery Park City, all the windows on our side of the building were blown out, when the towers came down. I walked to work through the towers every day, stopped at the same Sbarro's for bagel and coffee on my way through.

I didn't lose anyone I knew, but when the images of my sons crushed nursery school came through, I cried like a child, wouldn't let him out of my sight the whole day.

Touching story. Mind if I post it as my own elsewhere on the net?

 

[ChefWide]

Touching story. Mind if I post it as my own elsewhere on the net?

Voting against Bush? Then by all means, whats mine is yours, brother.

 

[anabolicmd]

Voting against Bush? Then by all means, whats mine is yours, brother.

lol

 

[Mr. dB]

"Freedom Tower?" That's the best name they could think of?

 

[ChefWide]

"Freedom Tower?" That's the best name they could think of?

It was the longest name the president could remember.

 

[randyjones]

president bush has taught those arabs a good lesson.he is the first american president to say no more from those arabs.they bomb everything in sight and they are trying to bring it here.I personaly will vote for him again.we can not let these stupid 3rd world asses try to ruin our lives.bush has shown that he is ready to blow up the whole mid east if he has too.that gets my vote

 

[ChefWide]

president bush has taught those arabs a good lesson.he is the first american president to say no more from those arabs.they bomb everything in sight and they are trying to bring it here.I personaly will vote for him again.we can not let these stupid 3rd world asses try to ruin our lives.bush has shown that he is ready to blow up the whole mid east if he has too.that gets my vote

Son of Curling, and only half as smart, if thats possible. LOL

 

[BileStew]

Leasing it may prove interesting though. You know it would be an attractive target.

So security will be nightmarish.

The NJ/NY papers here state that it will only lease to companies for 70 floors. The rest will be open space of glass. The name Freedom comes from the signing of the Declaration of Independance in 1776, hence the height of the building.

I lost 2 friends and a relative to the bombings and not seeing the towers is still a shock to me. It's something I was used to seeing all the time since I was a kid. I was so against them rebuilding another tower, but after a while thought otherwise. I now like the idea because it shows that you can kick us in the nuts, but we'll rebuild regardless of threats to our country. Plus, this design is leaving the original ground zero area as a monument for the dead which I and others can truly appreciate.

 

[EnderJE]

president bush has taught those arabs a good lesson.he is the first american president to say no more from those arabs.they bomb everything in sight and they are trying to bring it here.I personaly will vote for him again.we can not let these stupid 3rd world asses try to ruin our lives.bush has shown that he is ready to blow up the whole mid east if he has too.that gets my vote

Let's be realistic. He's the first president who went after a former ally and paraded him around like he was responsibile for 9/11. Six months later, he denies the charge and thinks that the country in question wasn't responsible for the attack. He's the first president who's able to turn world wide support to disgust and dismay.

The third world asses tried to ruin your life? Take a look at the foreign policy and see what your country is doing to them.

Blow up the whole Middle East? LOL. Sure, that way 9/11 will start happening every day of the year.

Personally, I like the new tower. I'm wondering how long it will stay up.