Detailed plans of 'Freedom Tower' on be built on WTC site

[editor]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42051000/gif/_42051244_freedom_tower2_416x320.gif

Given the significance of the site, I can't say I'd be in a rush to rent office space there, but the new tower is set to reach 1,776ft (taller than the WTC) and be finished by 2011.

Details here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5282810.stm

[King Biscuit Time]

Does anyone else find the name 'Freedom Tower' remincent of a Soviet-era Russian landmark. Bit creepy if you ask me.

Nice building though - although I liked the design for a huge building best that covered a massive area and left two columns of empty space exactly where the twin towers once stood more.

[wiskey]

i thought some of the other designs were nicer.

and you're right Freedom Tower is wank

[Radar]

and you're right Freedom Tower is wank
And you can fly to see it via Newark-Liberty Airport :rolleyes:

You'd think if it really was the land of the free, they wouldn't need reminding so bloody often.

Meh :D

[Gavin Bl]

It would have been nice if they had rebuilt it exactly as it was before - that would have said 'piss off' to OBL far more effectively than the 'Freedom Tower'.

[jæd]

Will it incorporate remote controlled demolition charges...? :D

[YanksJetsfan]

I wish they did Trump's idea. Rebuild them only one story taller than before. Shut those f*ckers who destroyed them up. I know people who's parents died in the towers.

[Loki]

To be honest I think it looks a little dull, design wise.

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/photo/62006/m47596.jpg

[Loki]

This image shows how it dominates the skyline:

http://www.die-wolkenkratzer.de/pics/freedom-tower-12.jpg

[Mrs Magpie]

So will there be parkland/gardens? I hope so...

[Crispy]

Yup, you can see the reflecting pools in the foundations of the old towers.
'twill be a good thing, I think. The thing that struck me about new york was the complete lack of green spaces outside of central park and that bit at the tip of manhatten.

[Balbi]

:rolleyes: great, this time there'll only be one to hit

[YanksJetsfan]

:rolleyes: great, this time there'll only be one to hit

Security's gotten a lot heavier. But if that does happen, I suggest the people in the country behind it to get the hell out of that country. Well, I have to go nuke my macaroni now.;)

[Shippou-Chan]

that thing on top looks like genitalia

[Shippou-Chan]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/Shippou-Chan/dicktower.jpg

[Gavin Bl]

:rolleyes: great, this time there'll only be one to hit

presumably someones asked the 'what happens if some nutter ploughs a plane into it?' question.



But have they asked the 'what if a massive zionist neo-con lizard conspiracy destroys it used demolition charges in a false flag operation carried out by remote controlled tin foil hatted special forces?'

[WouldBe]

What they haven't told anyone yet is that it's going to be built underground. The bit you can see in the artists impression is a hologram, completely plane proof. ;)

[Yuwipi Woman]

There are a lot of phallic buildings out there. This one is known as "The Prick of the Plains."

http://www.starcitymall.com/webcam/statecapitol.html

[Loki]

very good shippou :D

[1927]

News of the 1776 foot (date of american independance!) freeedom towewr is old news, but there is news of three other buildings on same site!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42062000/jpg/_42062558_artist_ap_203b.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5325794.stm

[xenon]

Finished by 2011. That sounds pretty fast for building essentually a vertical village.

[GarfieldLeChat]

http://altboard.lucidotnet.co.uk/modules/gallery/albums/stuff/911_bounce1.gif

cunning safety features too :)