Article on post-9/11 skyscraper construction plans

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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7%e Desire A For Tallest Building Persists *’ Given the haunting image of the collapsing twin towers, it’s hard for many Americans to fathom the en­ during urge to build tall. ;; Yet now coto® pl®os^ -the na­ tion’s tallest skyscraper, a condo­ minium andhotel budding designed by Santiago Calatrava for 'Chtca^‘1 ' , Wear North l^efroat At 2,000 feet,' 'The building, s the Fordham Spire, ■ would beat oat the l,7W-f«k Free­ dom Tower planned for ground zero. Internationally, both of these de­ signs are dwarfed by the Burj Tower under construction to Dubai, which is. , expected to reach 2.3(10 feet. Once 2 complete the Burj will overtake Taipei 101, a 1.667-foot office lower. as the worW*S"folefc AndTi^/Tato^-'' ' isuilding is certainly a short-time * record holder; only in October did it surpass the..t,4tt-fbrt:.;Pete»nas Tozi­ ers in Malaysia. y “There are »al WaoMrWtos fo 2 being the idlest ^jit go ^ck 3,0^ years,” said Caro! V. iJIis. the founder and director of the Skyscraper Mo- ’ seuin to Manhaitan. "Kxccediiig .« ■"

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exalting .for • rsasfliBs,"'''Or'i (iemonstratton of power dates back ! from Babylon on — wanting to take a place in history/a place In the timeline. Height is a fixation.” : ' 'For all the Jitters de*. : ' W'ri'ing potential -tenanS of a .future hreedom Tower, the 9/11 terrorist

•mittlsh a global appetite »toach the ' / sky. “The nomber ot tall buildings ; / ■beingibuilt around the world is at an /■ all-time high,” said Ron Klemencic, chairman of the Council on Tall J fundings and Urban Habitat, a pro- fessional group. Chicago already : • v. three of the 15 tidiest buildings tn the world: the Sear-s Tower, the .fi'im Hancock .Gen-' ter and Ami Center, ®, ’‘Th®'Skyscraper -ww bom to Qit cago,” said Cliri.siia« K. Narkiewtese- Laine, director O 'president of the • Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Ar­ chitecture and OWt “W whole concept of'The -sk^craper has al­ ways been indigenous to f ho city.”; Developers arc planning four buildings of around 80 stories to the ■ city, Mr. Klemencic said. tThe Ford­ ham Spire is to rise toll .5 stories by 2009.) Miami, San Erancisco and Las i Vegas are also to the mlitet of bus* th^ high-rise construction. / David M. Childs of S.kidmore ow-

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