It’ll be one of the few buildings with a roof height higher than 1WTC which is significant.
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Side note, as much as I dislike that ugly mast on top of 1WTC, if they just had it clad it would be 10X better than it is right now.
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Very likely that the actual design will end up having those “Jamie” diamonds.
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It does, you can already see them taking shape on the east and west sides just above the base.
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Shots from @NYguy over on Skyscraperpage
It’s taking shape , I have a strong feeling this one will rise quickly.
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It should, all steel -
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This might rise as fast as One Vandy 
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ESB doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb any more.
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You mean like a magnificent middle finger to the rest of the world. lol
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Lol, the next time when someone from somewhere says that the billionaires’ row supertalls are out of place and it sticks out like a sore thumb, I’d say to them like “Yeah, so does the ESB.”
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I edited a 2018 rendering of a preliminary design by Adamson Associates to show the Foster design as it might look in full from Park Avenue:
(The perspective in the original image is super exaggerated, so I can’t say I got the scaling exactly right in my edit!)
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Nice job!
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Thank you!
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Nice job indeed! And now I’ll nitpick. I’d scale it up a bit - you’ll only see the first fan column from that angle and the table top is taller - this building is a beast!
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Thanks for pointing out that point of reference! I had scaled my model directly over the silhouette of the ~1150’ tall AAI design in the original image- it seems they took some artistic liberty with the scaling for the sake of the rendering’s composition! This building will certainly tower over its surroundings a lot more.
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It might look something like this…
The white lines is a possible windbreak on the building.
Link to the construction cam:
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Pic by Nyguy on SSP
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The time lapse on the construction cam is very cool. Kinda sad to watch the demo of the old building, but thinking this new one will be worth it.
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