Now it just needs the nighttime lighting the same as the Empire State Building. 
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How tall would you say spire height is?
Pretty sure itâs just the ESBs spire, so howevwr tall that is
IDK if a spire is the right move because it looks too similar to the ESB.
What if you used a different roof from Lower Manhattan? Like the roofline from 70 Pine.
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I was thinking the same thing. The ESB spire looks wrong to me on this thing. Part of what I loved about the original design was how it managed to have an elegant, well defined top without resorting to a spire.
The height of the crown, this developmentâs version of the mooring mast, would be 277 feet. The height of the spire, the communications and radio antenna above that of this developmentâs crown, would be 290 feet. The tower itself would rise 1,500 feet tall. Doing the math, the entire development would rise 2,067 feet tall.
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I agree, using a single spire, even if different than the one used, makes it look like it is trying to be the ESB. The original design is perfect.
Drew up a quick side profile diagram of the initial iteration for this tower as it wouldâve appeared next to itâs older and newer neighbors. I really do think this was the best of all the designs, the base wouldâve been so beautiful, and my interpretation of it really doesnât do it justice. I plan on trying to interpret the historic render into a 3d model.
The massing and setbacks may differ slightly overall in the model, but the height is around 1200-1300 ft.
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