The way I see it, this latest iteration is the one they need to hit the ground running with yesterday.
The last staggered-box version was too blocky for my taste and disrupted the relatively simplistic architectural progression of the other elements. This one is cleaner, the spire adds a new visual aspect wherein 1 and 2 have spires, whereas 3 and 4…Well…
Anyway, another thing I noticed in this design is the unintended resemblance to the original 80 South design. Maybe that should’ve been resurrected by Lord Foster (with Sr. Clatrava’s permission, most likely) and LNF could’vee run with that ball.
I’ve mentioned it before but it does seem like almost every financial district project goes through some length of development hell. You either get a subpar version of the original idea or nothing at all
I can’t really blame Foster when the biggest disappointments with this are its diminutive height and width, which are limitations that probably have more to do with Silverstein or whichever potential tenant dictated them. The design language is still there and still pretty good, apart from the second highest pair of tubes stepping the opposite way north-south which looks pretty weird.
It would be just as much of a butchering if the 2006 diamonds had been cut in height by this much.
The way the renders are lined up and their perspectives make the latest revision with the height cut appear as tall as the BIG stacked boxes and the original diamonds proposal, and less apparent. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not..
2 World Trade Center Interests me A Little The recent Design With The Spire
actually (in My Opinion) is kinda cool
i Feel Like The WTC cannot Fully Heal Without 2 or 5 WTC
I went away for a couple Of weeks, what even is this garbage? I will just use a quote that Silverstein has already heard for this: “if we rebuild the World Trade Center in the form of a skeleton, the terrorists win”
Honestly at this point i feel like silverstein probably should have let someone else develop this building. I mean its been 19 years since plans were first released and the building has been on hold for 13 years now. How many times over these past years have we been gaslit by hearing “stay tuned, things are happening” just for nothing to ever happen. Its crazy to think after all these years they haven’t found a tenant to fully commit or raised the money to build it without a tenant.
5WTC has been a disaster as well. After all these years it finally gets approved just for them to not even have funding to build it so who knows when it will even rise? Sorry for my rant but its just been ridiculous following this building all these years and originally having such a beautiful idea for this building just to end up with our possible current plan with the spire. At this point its highly unlikely larry will even live long enough to see everything completed. The sad possibility is we could blink and another 10 years pass by and this site will still be nothing more than graffiti sheds and a beer garden
