Skyscraper near Ground ZerO
Among the taller buildings in this rendering, looking south, are the Woolworth Building, far left; Barclay Tower, in shadow; 99 Church Street, a slender masonry building; 3 World Trade Center; 2 World Trade Center, with a steeply sloping roof; 7 World Trade Center, shorter tower in foreground; 1 World Trade Center or Freedom Tower, with its mast reaching 1,776 feet; American Express headquarters, with a shallow pyramidal roof; and Goldman Sachs headquarters, far right.
(Image:Courtesy of Silverstein Properties)Another Skyscraper Is Planned Near Ground Zero
Less than a century after it soared heavenward as the world’s tallest building, the Woolworth Building — the icy Gothic pinnacle that generations of New Yorkers knew as the “Cathedral of Commerce” — will soon fall under the shadow of an 80-story next-door neighbor.
The new 912-foot tower at 99 Church Street, designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects for Silverstein Properties, will have a 175-room Four Seasons hotel on the first 22 floors and 143 condominium apartments in the floors above, managed by Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Larry A. Silverstein, the president and chief executive of Silverstein Properties, unveiled the design this morning.
Construction is to begin in June and be completed in 2011.
Not a moment too soon sweet friends.
While some complain that the modern architecture lacks the grandeur and majesty of some of the older and antiquated buildings, Lower Manhattan can surely use the boost.
Our skyline in lower Manhattan needs to be redefined. Some would prefer to see stone and lasting carvings instead of glass, some say the buildings are so clustered that they compete with one another rather than unify.
I’ll leave those arguments to the architectural aficionados.
Me?..I’m thrilled to be witnessing Americans “building” rather than IzlamoNazis “destroying.”
What say Y’all sweet friends? 
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
G.K. Chesterton
“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Mies van der Rohe
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
Philip Johnson
Inviting my friends on a tour of NYC at Rosemary’s Thoughts, Nuke Gingrich, The Random Yak, third world county, Right Truth, Pirate’s Cove, Cao’s Blog, Leaning Straight Up, Wolf Pangloss, and Right Voices, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
I suppose that is nice for those that have money and have the say. But for people like us what say do we have? None basically.
I personally would have liked to have seen a park built there with a memorial in the middle so that even though the memory of that fateful day is sad, ad least there still could be beauty surrounding it.
Another skyscraper is juat another in your face bin Laden gesture. PFFFT!
January 30th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Just like the flight 93 memorial. The grandiose mosque to the terrorists does our victims a disservice.
The plain old fence with the pictures and hand-scrawled heartfelt messages mean more.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Given the value of space and space’s value in dollars in Lwr. Manhattan, I have thought it inevitable that one or more buildings would eventually be decided upon and constructed. I hope that they are structured and placed in a manner which lends proper reverence to how sacred that ground is and preservation of the history, however horrible.
I am not a city guy, but I have always enjoyed viewing and photographing NYC’s architecture during the many times I have been there, for business or pleasure. It is an amazing array of fabrication.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
The ability and opportunity to build and create in this world are God Given gifts.
What does that make those who would choose to destroy?
January 30th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Architecture “is in a class by itself, because it combines art with a utilitarian purpose and does not re-create reality, but creates a structure for man’s habitation or use, expressing man’s values” Ayn Rand
January 30th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
912 ft tall. I wonder if that was intentional?
January 30th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American)
(Toby Keith)
©2002 Tokeco Tunes (BMI)
American Girls and American Guys
We’ll always stand up and salute
We’ll always recognize
When we see Old Glory Flying
There’s a lot of men dead
So we can sleep in peace at night
When we lay down our head
My daddy served in the army
Where he lost his right eye
But he flew a flag out in our yard
Until the day that he died
He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me
To grow up and live happy
In the land of the free.
Now this nation that I love
Has fallen under attack
A mighty sucker punch came flyin’ in
From somewhere in the back
Soon as we could see clearly
Through our big black eye
Man, we lit up your world
Like the 4th of July
Hey Uncle Sam
Put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty
Started shakin’ her fist
And the eagle will fly
Man, it’s gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Freedom
Start ringin’ her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue
Justice will be served
And the battle will rage
This big dog will fight
When you rattle his cage
And you’ll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
`Cause we`ll put a boot in your ass
It`s the American way
Hey Uncle Sam
Put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty
Started shakin’ her fist
And the eagle will fly
Man, it’s gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Freedom
Start ringin’ her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue
January 31st, 2008 at 12:18 am
Enjoy the song…rejoice in the message….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seRPJGcUs8A
January 31st, 2008 at 12:37 am
I think it is pathetic that all these years after September 11 and still no building. This should have been a priority to rebuild, to slap the face of those terrorists and say, SEE you can knock it down, but we will just build it back BIGGER and BETTER and more WESTERN than ever
January 31st, 2008 at 4:38 am
Oh how i wish it had been quicker, but better late than never.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:15 am
912 feet tall? Wow. That’s amazing. It had to have been intentional.
New York looks fantastic. I’ve only ever been to the west coast. I think I’m going to have to check it out next time.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:54 am
GOP Debate Round-Up…
I slept through the debate last night and as I hear, I didn’t miss all that much. Could someone please explain to me why Ron Paul-who has not won one primary-is still in the debates? Oh, and a vote for the Huckster is a vote for McCain. IMHO ……
January 31st, 2008 at 9:38 am
Love this tour of NYC! Amazin’, Sugar Pie…lovely .
Seems to me we ought to build again–with some small space (1/2 acre) left as permanent tribute to our lost citizens. Guess to leave the whole thing is to focus on a scar rather than the spirit of the people who once worked there–wouldn’t they rejoice to have “their” buildings up and humming along again?
January 31st, 2008 at 10:26 am
As a mathlete (but not necessarily mathematician) with three brothers majoring in some form of engineering, I loved the cartoons with the formulas! Especially the last one…
January 31st, 2008 at 11:01 am
It is WAY past time for rebuilding to begin.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I tend to prefer function over form, but I realize that both must coexist.
BTW I don’t think I will ever be able to look at a picture of the World Trade Center towers without feeling like I’ve been punched in the solar plexus.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:22 pm
“Given the value of space and space’s value in dollars in Lwr. Manhattan, I have thought it inevitable that one or more buildings would eventually be decided upon and constructed.”
A very interesting comment.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I for one would like to see it A.S.A.P. should have been higher on the priority list. I do think as Auntie Belle, a small space 1/2 acre would be good to have for a memorial for those who perished there.
Yes, 912 has to be intentional. very interesting.
Love your photo tour. Thanks Angel
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