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Started by DGuller, March 27, 2009, 04:15:28 PM

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Savonarola

#15
March 28, 2009, 10:44:40 AM
Quote from: dps on March 28, 2009, 12:57:49 AM
QuoteRegenhard said she was never a fan of the "Freedom Tower" name because the the mammoth project is allegedly riddled with unsafe work.

I don't guess "Might Fall Down Without Being Hit by an Airliner Tower" would be considered appropriate.

The "Nothing Left to Lose Tower" would be a good name. :)
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FunkMonk

#16
March 28, 2009, 10:47:05 AM
This is an OUTRAGE. Have we learned NOTHING from 9/11? Congress should MANDATE the word FREEDOM in this new tower's name. By God!
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#17
March 28, 2009, 10:47:43 AM
Where's that lovely "I'm falling for you" pic?
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#18
March 28, 2009, 10:51:48 AM
WTF Tower?
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DisturbedPervert

#19
March 28, 2009, 10:53:23 AM
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The Port Authority announced that the planned 1,776-foot building, now barely above its foundations

That's all they've done?  They've almost finished the Burj Dubai and that was started in 2004.

jimmy olsen

#20
March 28, 2009, 10:53:44 AM
Never was a fan of the name, but if the Chinese are behind this then I'm against the change.
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#21
March 28, 2009, 12:11:10 PM




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#22
March 28, 2009, 12:11:33 PM
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on March 28, 2009, 10:53:23 AM
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The Port Authority announced that the planned 1,776-foot building, now barely above its foundations

That's all they've done?  They've almost finished the Burj Dubai and that was started in 2004.
Americans aren't very good at building.
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#23
March 28, 2009, 12:34:26 PM
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on March 28, 2009, 10:53:23 AM
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The Port Authority announced that the planned 1,776-foot building, now barely above its foundations

That's all they've done?  They've almost finished the Burj Dubai and that was started in 2004.

There were dozens of lawsuits to get through before they could start. 

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#24
March 28, 2009, 12:52:49 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 28, 2009, 12:11:33 PM
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on March 28, 2009, 10:53:23 AM
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The Port Authority announced that the planned 1,776-foot building, now barely above its foundations

That's all they've done?  They've almost finished the Burj Dubai and that was started in 2004.
Americans aren't very good at building.

It isn't that we aren't good at building, it is that we have too many lawyers.
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Caliga

#25
March 28, 2009, 01:10:11 PM
...and not enough Indonesian slave labor. :(
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Fireblade

#26
March 28, 2009, 01:16:33 PM
It's things like this that makes me remember why I hate Yankees.

DGuller

#27
March 28, 2009, 01:29:59 PM

jimmy olsen

#28
March 28, 2009, 01:50:51 PM
Quote from: DGullerWere those done before 9/11?


Yup, I'm surprised you haven't seen them before.
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The Minsky Moment

#29
March 28, 2009, 02:26:27 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 28, 2009, 10:16:41 AM
Because towers invariably have names.  350 Fifth Avenue doesn't mean anything to most people,

Not invariably.  Several iconic NYC properties are known by their street addresses:  1 Central Park West (aka Time Warner Center); 11 Wall Street (shorn of the street number this has become a moniker for the entire financial system of the US); 1 Sutton Place South; 9 West (57th) (aka Solow Building); 15 Central Park West;  960 Fifth Avenue; 1 Fifth Avenue; 720 Park
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