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Police Dept. Security Concerns Alter Plans for Freedom Tower (World Trade Center)
NY Times ^
| May 1, 2005
| PATRICK D. HEALY and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Posted on 04/30/2005 2:42:33 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
04/30/2005 2:42:34 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
What a Bureaucrat's dream! Next the KGB will need to jump in with their thoughts.
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posted on
04/30/2005 2:49:50 PM PDT
by
iopscusa
(El Vaquero.)
To: neverdem
I wish they would just forget this ugly building and start the plans all over again.
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posted on
04/30/2005 2:53:24 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: Right Wing Assault
I think it looks beautiful.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:02:39 PM PDT
by
Teflonic
To: iopscusa
What a Bureaucrat's dream! Amazing, isn't it? We're much safer with the bureaucrats in charge....
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:09:29 PM PDT
by
ScreamingFist
(Peace through Ignorance)
To: Teflonic
I don't, butt ugly! What were they thinking...?
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:10:29 PM PDT
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(We will always remember.We will always be proud.We will always be prepared, so we may always be free)
To: Right Wing Assault
I agree. Personally, his design was near the bottom of my list, mostly because I thought it looked uneasy and tentative. It should be something confident and majestic.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:12:38 PM PDT
by
livius
To: Teflonic
That's the first picture I've seen of the plan, thanks. That being said, it looks like something designed by committee, and it's ugly, real ugly.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:16:13 PM PDT
by
ScreamingFist
(Peace through Ignorance)
To: livius
It looks like 40% of it is just glass. Why didn't they just build a hollow 100% glass tower with no offices in it? The if would be a LOT safer. It looks like the thing was designed by 3 different people. That skinny butt little thing on the top looks pathetic. It say, "This building isn't very tall but MY job is to make it LOOK tall!"
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:17:02 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: neverdem
Larry Silverstein, has proposed seeking public financing - possibly hundreds of millions of dollars What a surprise. Excuse us while the state of NY collectively bends over and grabs its ankles.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:17:16 PM PDT
by
GnL
To: livius
Personally, his design was near the bottom of my list, mostly because I thought it looked uneasy and tentative.Unfinished comes to mind also...
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:18:05 PM PDT
by
ScreamingFist
(Peace through Ignorance)
To: GnL
To: iopscusa
why all this fuss? i don't get it.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:33:05 PM PDT
by
paulsy
To: Teflonic
why are the top floors transparent?
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:33:41 PM PDT
by
paulsy
To: Right Wing Assault
I wish they would just forget this ugly building and start the plans all over again. I agree.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:39:42 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: cyborg; Clemenza; Cacique; NYCVirago; The Mayor; Darksheare; hellinahandcart; Chode; ...
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:42:56 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
The Freedom Tower idea is flat stupid - everybody knows the twin towers need to go back up just the way they were - with strutural improvememts of course but size and shape all the same.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:51:56 PM PDT
by
UseYourHead
(Just when I think you've said the stupidest thing ever, you keep talking.)
To: paulsy
To make it look tall. The real building is a lot lower than many NYC buildings. It would be harder to hit the lower part with a plane, as if the ROP guys are planning to try that again.
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posted on
04/30/2005 3:54:37 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: UseYourHead
The Freedom Tower idea is flat stupid - everybody knows the twin towers need to go back up just the way they were - with structural improvements of course but size and shape all the same.
Along with street side protective high-tech walls of titanium/ceramic/reinforced-concrete of sufficient hight and width.
For incoming air-attacks fully computer/radar controlled "phalanx" fast-reaction, rapid-fire 20-millimeter gun systems at say 40 and 80 stories and roof, covering 360 degrees. Anything that doesn't "squawk 'friend'" within a certain perimeter (like police helicopters would) is destroyed.
"Hey...I'm not kidding."
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posted on
04/30/2005 5:20:21 PM PDT
by
CaptSkip
To: UseYourHead
Yup agree 100%. I spent a good time of my younger life seeing those towers every morning while walking to work, and would love to see them built back the way they were, with improvements and all.
I think putting them right back up would be a much more fitting memorial than empty spaces where they stood.. (then again.. thats just my opinion)
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posted on
04/30/2005 5:24:57 PM PDT
by
eXe
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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