Nah just complete smooth all around.
Also yeah I highly doubt they reach megatall status. Even the skinny towers on 57th street are usually well over 1 mil sqft, and the tallest one is ≈ 400 ft short.
Just having a little fun with their terminology
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To each his own 
Well considering their sister firm has designed an actual Megatall (Merdeka 118), I’m not quite sure that they were mincing words. Someone just forgot to check, ha.
@ThreeWentDown that’s possible since it definitely seems to be an old depiction (and an old image) because DBOX was the one who rendered and used older depictions of towers at the WTC.
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Removing those spires was a real shame. Why did that happen?
From what I remember, they removed it so that the building can be on par (or go well) with BIG’s 2 WTC, but now it’s pointless since BIG’s 2 WTC is not coming back anymore.
IMO it looked better without the spires after the height was cut and large X-bracing removed. The spires flowed really well into the Xs, but after the cuts they looked out of place.
This building is pretty nice. I’d love to see it built. It would add something new and exciting to the area which is riddled with bland and often ugly mid-century modern/international style junk.
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Well I mean the spires were extensions/connected to the diagrid on the sides so it’s not like they would have looked out of place. As they are now, the corner “columns” just stop short of the parapet.
This is a direct quote from RSH+P about the decision:
So @NewYorkCity76 is correct in their memory.
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I do remember the last version of the spires being a continuation of the side frames, but I think they visually didn’t fit well with the now-unadorned main centre volume. I think the spires were at their best when they were a continuation of the central frame rather than the disproportionally smaller sides:
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I agree with the sentiment, but somehow I think the original proposal was too high tech (though that’s ironic because it’s the work of RSH+P) for NY. The only other high tech building I can think of is Renzo’s NY Times Building, which by far is not to the scale of high tech architecture that Roger’s original 3 WTC was.
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I agree on that too-- I actually think the design that was built in the end is the version that stylistically fits best with the WTC, apart from its slightly stumpy height compared to 1 and 2. If Foster’s bundled tube design is chosen, 2 and 3 will look great next to each other, framing the Oculus.
The original high-tech aesthetic might have fit in more with the initially much more eclectic WTC family, with Foster’s 2WTC having had the diamond crown and tinted glass gradient and the sculptural spire and comms ring on 1WTC.
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2 WTC is basically confirmed to be the newest design, might be in not too distant future this tower will rise. 5 WTC starts next year
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Here’s my construction shots from August 2013, shortly after I turned 12 years old. Like I said I was also in NYC 2 years before this time as well, and I remember I took photos. But I haven’t seen them in years, my guess is that I deleted the images without backing up
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i’d buy the TK2000 anthology coffee table book
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Perhaps I can publish something once I have an actual business. I’m building towards my career right now, while sharing my work as I love to do
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August 2011
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Yup, that’s how I remember it. It was a magnificent sight to see
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Now that is a stunning shot! The elevation, the layering, the colors, the cityscape…LOVE IT!
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