The latest plan for the seriously delayed and shrinking World Trade Center calls for dumping several skyscrapers. The Port Authority is proposing replacing Tower 2 and 3, at 200 and 175 Greenwich Street respectively, with a pair of “stumps,†four or five story buildings for retail use. They also hope to abandon all plans for Tower 5 at 130 Liberty Street, the site of the toxic Deutsche Bank building, leaving just two towers and half the office space originally envisioned. And just because the replacement designs are smaller doesn’t mean they’ll go up any faster. The so-called “stumps†could take a couple years to redesign, pushing completion of the site’s transportation hub past 2014. |NYDN|
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Three Skyscrapers Targeted at World Trade Center Site
By Will Sherman |
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That sucks…
i hate the way that these towers are going to be canceled they should cancel the wtc 5 building on the site of 130 liberty was
The towers aren't canceled, Silverstein and the Port Authority needed time to settle their dispute, and just today as of August 19th the PA handed the control over to Silverstein, who wants to build the towers so they didn't have to keep paying him 300K bucks a day for late fees.
They may not be built real soon but they definitely are not canceled, nobody listened to the PA's plan because it was absurd and beyond stupid.
200 and 175 greenwitch are not canceled but 150 liberty street is owned by port authority and port authority in there master proposal was to reduce 150 liberty to aproximently a four story stump building, so we do not know what they will with the site… Silverstein properties and the port authority of new york and new jersey made a deal stating silverstein properties would have the right to build all the greenwitch towers and port authority would own and construct the freedom tower and 150 liberty street. The reason silverstein corp has not started on 200 greenwitch and 175 was because they wanted to fully build 150 greenwich and make some profit before they take on the building costs of the other two towers.
ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT NYC IS BUILT MOSTLY BY TINY BUILDINGS AND THE MAJORITY OF THEM LOOK ALIKE.(THEY ALL LOOK LIKE BOXES OR JUNK) "THERE IS NO SENCE OF REAL ARCHITECTURE"COMPARED TO THE MODERN ARCHITECTURE DESIGS IN CHINA AND DUBAI AND PERHAPS ALL OVER THE WORLD AS WE KNOW TODAY……. EVEN MY DOUGTHER,….. SHE IS ONLY FIVE CAN BE A BETTER ARCHITECTURE DESIGNER THAN THOSE SO CALLED ARCHITECTS FROM NY. AS AN EXAMPLE THEY DESING A SMALL TRIANGULAR OR RECTANGULAR SHAPE BLDG AND THEY IMMEDIATELLY GET APROVED TO BUILD IT. WELL THE FACT IS IN NYC THEY DONT HAVE THE FUTURISTIC SENCE OF SPIRIT EVEN POOR COUNTRIES ARE BUILDING BETTER, TALLER AND MORE MODERNISTIC PERHAPS EVEN MORE EFFICIENT BUILDING THAN NYC. I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE EVEN DONALD TRUMP SAID HIMSELF THAT ARCHITECTS ARE DESINGNING JUNK BLDGS IN NYC AND PERHAPS I AGREE WITH THAT. IM NOT SURPRISE WHY, BUT WHEN SOMETHING REALLY AMAZING IS DESINGNED AND PROPOSED TO BE BUILT ONE DAY, NO OFFENCE BUT THERE IS ALWAYS SOME IDIOTIC PEOPLE PROTESTING WITH SOME DUMB EXCUSES AGAINST MOST OF THE MODERNISTIC ROPOSALS JUST LIKE IT HAPPENED WITH THE PROPOSALS IN THE WEST SIDE RAIL YARDS, THOSE STUPID PEOPLE ARE NOW HAPPY THAT NOTHING WAS BEEN BUILT BECAUSE OF THEM AND PERHAPS THE RAIL YARDS STIILL LOOKS LIKE CRAP. HOWEVER IF IT WAS IN ANOTHER COUNTRY LIKE CHINA,KOREA,DUBAI AND OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, MANY OF THIS AMAZING DESING WOULD BE BUILT. SO IN OTHER WORDS NYC COULD HAVE A TOUCH OF MODERN SKYLINE INSTEAD OF OLD FASHIONED SMALL BOX SHAPPED BUILDINGS. WELL THERE ARE VERY FEW AND I MEAN VERY FEW MODERNISTIC BUILDING IN NYC COMPARED TO OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. COME ON WE ARE LIVING IN THE PRESENT LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE NOT IN THE PAST. THIS DAY MANY HAD BEEN SPOKEN THAT CHINA OR DUBAI HAD THE GREATEST CITIES IN THE FUTURISTIC WORLD…..THATS THE PRESENT & THE FUTURE!!!!!
Having been here in this country for 20 years, I came to the conlcusion that democracy soemtimes really sucks !! Nothing gets done. We are sitll using 100 yaer-old infrastructure in NYC while other countries are raoring past the 20th centry. NYC is a a medoeval town compared to other cities in other so-called developing country.
And as we spead now, this country is still scrambling to reach a deal for the debt limit
So sad.
In my life time I think I will be able to see the demise of the entire western culture.