Sure, that would be good! 
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This is pretty cool. The capsules that go underwater are pretty iffy though.
Adding another layer of excitement to this groundbreaking project, the massive structural ring features a rotating layer of large meeting rooms. Twice a day, these rooms move around the perimeter of the ring, descending from the lofty heights to immerse guests in an unforgettable underwater experience.
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Over 20 of the World Trade Center proposals.
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Is this project still current? or is it really an cancelled project and design?
The depicted tower rises approximately 45 stories tall and could stretch 800 feet high due to the ceiling heights necessary in modern-day office buildings.
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Twin Garden City
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKzNkPss-x9/
Visionary Megatall Concept for Manhattan Midtown
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David Childs’s first scheme for the site, from 1989. Illustration: SOM
Childs’s revision, 1996. Illustration: SOM. Rendering by Michael McCann
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SITE K (418 11th Ave.)
2006
Credit: NYguy SSP NEW YORK | 418 11th Ave | FT | FLOORS - Page 29 - SkyscraperPage Forum
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One of the most hotly contested development sites in NYC’s history is the former site of the Coliseum at Columbus Circle. Eventually Time Warner Center was built at the site, but only after a series of bitter public battles between developers and NIMBYs and two different competitions for proposals, one in 1985 and one in 1996.
The New York Coliseum was a convention center and office tower complex built in 1956 that was the brainchild of Robert Moses. After the construction of the Javits Center, the Coliseum became obsolete and the MTA (which owned the land) solicited proposals for a massive redevelopment of the site. The MTA was very clear that design was not important to their selection criteria, they were looking to sell the site to the highest bidder.
Over 100 teams of architects/developers submitted proposals, and 13 finalists were selected in 1985. A few of these proposals have been posted in this thread before, but I thought it would be good to have them all in one post. I haven’t been able to find the height and number of stories for all of them.
Coliseum Site — 1985 Competition Finalists
Architect: Cesar Pelli, Developer: Rich, Eichner
Pelli’s proposal called for an Art-Deco inspired trio of towers, the tallest of which would be 80 stories and 1,050 ft tall.
Source: Progressive Architecture July 1985
Architect: Helmut Jahn, Developer: Donald Trump and Peter Kalikow
Jahn’s design for a spiraling 122 story tower would have been the tallest building in the world.
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Architect: Eli Attia, Developer: Donald Trump and HJ Kalikow (Scheme 2)
Trump/Kalikow’s alternate scheme from Eli Attia would also have been the world’s tallest building at 135 stories and 1601 ft.
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Architect: David Childs/Skidmore Owings & Merrill (NYC Office), Developer: Larry Silverstein
David Childs designed a postmodern grouping of towers of 43 & 63 stories.
Source: Progressive Architecture July 1985
Architect: Bruce Graham/Skidmore Owings & Merrill (Chicago Office), Developer: Lefrak
Bruce Graham devised a high-tech tower covered in trusswork that would have surpassed his own Sears Tower as the world’s tallest building.
Source: Progressive Architecture July 1985
Architect: Kevin Roche, Developer: Bechtel/Park Tower Realty
Roche’s 30 Rock-inspired design featured an 80 story, 1066 ft masonry slab with lots of setbacks.
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Source: PA 7/85
Architect: Michael Graves, Developer: Zeckendorf
Graves, known for his Disney hotels, designed a delirious postmodern fantasy (or nightmare, depending on your perspective)
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Architect: James Polshek, Developer: Hirschfeld
Source: PA 7/85
Architect: HOK, Developer: Sterling Equities
76 stories with a glass & stone facade
Source: PA 7/85
Architect: Swanke Hayden Connell, Developer: Kumagai Gumi
Source: PA 7/85
Architect: Welton Beckett, Developer: Ackerman
Source: PA 7/85
The winning proposal, by architect Moshe Safdie and developer Boston Properties
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Continued…
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After Safdie’s design was unveiled as the winner of the competition, there was predictable outcry from NIMBY groups. The Municpal Arts Society used the argument that the complex would block light from reaching Central Park, an argument that would be reused decades later against the towers of billionaire’s row:
MAS counterattacked both in the courts and in the press. Recognizing how tough it was to rile up the populace with talk of massing, zoning, and subway bonuses, activists hunted for another tool. Kent Barwick, then–MAS president, recalls a gathering at the Fifth Avenue apartment of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, where she looked out of the window and said, “They’re stealing our sky.” That was the clear and present menace that the MAS needed.
On a warm Sunday that October, about 800 protesters, including Jackie, Bill Moyers, and Paul Newman, marched across Central Park carrying black umbrellas to represent the shadow that Safdie’s tower would cast. New York had prepared their way (and helped summon participants) with an ominous cover story, “The Shadow,” by John Taylor, that opened: “By 5 p.m. in April, it will begin to darken the slides and swings of the Heckscher Playground — darkening, too, of course, the children playing there … In the depths of December, when the reduction in natural light has already put a portion of the population into metabolically induced depression, a stretch of the park almost a mile long … will be plunged into darkness a full half-hour before sunset by the hulking colossus.”
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Following the public outrcry (and, more importantly, after the planned anchor tenant Salomon Brothers dropped out), Boston Properties CEO Mort Zuckerman changed architects, switching over to David Childs and SOM NY, who attempted to design a more contextual complex that would assuage the critics:
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Source: AIA NY Chapter Journal, March 1989
But this did nothing to satisfy the critics. Meanwhile, the stock market was declining and the site was losing value, and Zuckerman gave up his attempt to develop the site in 1994. In 1996, Mayor Giuliani announced a new competition to develop the Coliseum site, but this time with stricter standards: the towers could not exceed 59 stories, and the base must follow the curve of Columbus Circle.
In my next post I will go over the finalists for the second design competition for the Coliseum Site.
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Waterview Tower Chicago
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The Big Shift by PORT Urbanism
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Coexistence Tower by Future Systems
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Two canceled supertall projects in Newark NJ:
55 Hudson Street | 95 FLOORS
Liberty Rising | 90 FLOORS
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Would love to see Libtery Rising actually happen. Looks like an awesome resort design. Unfortunately it’s long dead
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The first picture is of 99 Hudson Street in Jersey City which was completed some years ago just a bit shorter.
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I was literally watching this during my lunch break lol.
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