Let’s count our blessings. The maintenance on this is getting better, even if it’s still not perfect
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The new BMU helped a lot to improve the maintenance of the building.
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Well as @tjr101 mentioned, what we see is still a spire whether people want to see it as one or not because it’s not just there for transmission purposes. A spire is considered such when it is a part of the design scheme, the antenna on the original North Tower was considered an antenna because it was solely intended/built for transmission purposes.
The spire not having it’s radome anymore didn’t just make it an antenna. The overall design and geometry of it, as you mentioned the beacon housing still has it’s triangular and octagonal geometry as do the intermediate platforms, because the spire had already started construction of it’s components when it was found that the radome would have been impossible/very difficult to upkeep with transmission equipment inside it as well. There was no time to change the design by that point.
I’m sure “something” can still be done to make the spire appear more in its original form even if its just putting an open air lattice arround it, but the radome isn’t an aspect that’s coming back as equipment now installed on the mast is larger than the radome enclosure would have been.
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The spire does function as a communications/transmission antenna, that was its entire purpose, to replace the one lost from the original North Tower. You’re welcome to your opinion, but the whole point of the radome was to hide that comm equipment and that’s just a fact. The analogy with the Eiffel Tower doesn’t really make sense as to why this spire shouldn’t have had a radome to begin with because the Eiffel Tower isn’t covered in comm equipment all over it.
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well, then accept the fact that this is a piece of the building intended to serve a crucial function…and as such, any cladding is redundant and cost inefficient
now, if your argument is purely for ascetics, then no comms equipment should ever be allowed on the spire because, all things being equal, the current spire sans comms equipment is as magnificent as the eifell tower, and putting cladding around it would be akin to putting a wall-to-wall carpet over an oak wood parquet floor
What on earth are you on about? You are the one not wanting to accept the fact, as I clearly stated, that the spire was always intended to have communications equipment on it… and
You could not be more wrong with this statement. Not all comm/radar/broadcasting equipment can be exposed to the elements all the time, the radome was not redundant or cost inefficient at all and how you came to that conclusion is beyond me. Why do you think that there is currently equipment on the spire that have radomes covering them, for fun? And there you go again making such odd comparisons and this time with some jargon, I’m not even arguing, I’m telling you why your statements don’t make sense based on facts. 
The spire structure that you so praise and want to be without equipment wouldn’t even look the way it does if it wasn’t for the intended radome enclosure. But I’ll say it one more time so that you get the picture, the spire was ALWAYS intended to have equipment installed on it, whether you like it or not doesn’t matter because that IS a fact.
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@StrongIsland & @bpc, there have been multiple cherry pickers messing with the signages the past few days 
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Oh man tell me they aren’t off again? Lol😫
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