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Originally posted by Arrian
The "Freedom Tower" ?
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-Arrian
The "Freedom Tower" ?
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-Arrian
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What, they should have called it say Merrill Lynch tower, or Mercantile exchange tower, or whatever? Given the location and what happened, i see no problem with the name, especially given that its down the block from Liberty Plaza, close to Fraunces Tavern, and will make a visual counter to the SOL."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber -
We hate everything at first.Originally posted by Wittlich
Well, most New Yorkers hated the World Trade Towers when they were first built.Tutto nel mondo è burlaComment
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The Trade Towers were very masculine. This is a somewhat feminine building.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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And ISTR the architecture critics hated them as well - too massive, yet too pin-stripey minimalist, none of the character of traditional NY skyscrapers, and an awful windswept plaza in between. But they did grow on you over time.Originally posted by Wittlich
Well, most NewYorkers hated the World Trade Towers when they were first built..."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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What's wrong with "World Trade Center?"Originally posted by lord of the mark
What, they should have called it say Merrill Lynch tower, or Mercantile exchange tower, or whatever? Given the location and what happened, i see no problem with the name, especially given that its down the block from Liberty Plaza, close to Fraunces Tavern, and will make a visual counter to the SOL.Tutto nel mondo è burlaComment
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Nothing. Call it whatever you damn well want to.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Nothing.What's wrong with "World Trade Center?"
-Arrian
edit: damn you, DanS!
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This just works.
It's very Asian-tower looking... something I think our metropolis' need (they have some jaw-dropping designs). And I like the fact that it is exactly 1776 feet
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NY takes back the tallest building prize
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The World Trade Center was a wonderfull name, nice and global. Why not the International Trade center? The Nexus? That sounds nice.
"Freedom Tower"? NOT a New York name.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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Think futuristic. Interstellar Trade Center. Intergalactic Trade Center.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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New York is a city of Commerce and immigration, not the Mecca of cheesy Americana, which something named "freedom tower" would be emblematic of.If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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Space Mountain or Space Needle
Intergalatic Phallic Symbol of Doom Trade Center
or Nexus, I like nexusComment
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Why in God's name do these buildings have to have such a long and useless spire on top?!I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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So it can be taller than the other ones.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Lets add a zeppelin tower at the end!If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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