Freedom Tower (NYC) vs. Burj Tower (Dubai)? Why same height?

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Description: Why a competition? Why spending more money? Your thoughts On april 25, 2005, The High-Rise Pages was the first media source in the world to report about a possible redesign of Freedom Tower in New York City, in order to make it taller. Only few days after the press release of The High Rise Pages, official sources indeed announced that Freedom Tower will be redesigned! The official reason however is the security situation of the building. CNN and other media sources reported about the redesign of Freedom Tower, confirming the official statement that the redesign is meant to make the building safer. However, it is said that the New York authorities have a very strong wish to bring back the title of the tallest building in the world to New York City. According to an anonymous US engineer that contacted The High-Rise Pages, the main objective of the redesign is to create possibilities to make the building taller than the design suggests, even after construction is well on its way! The wish to have an "open end design" that can absorb additional floors during construction, is supposed to originate from the development of a huge tower in the Arab world, called Burj Dubai Tower. Burj Dubai Tower is under construction right now and will reach at 2313 feet when completed in 2008. Both the old and the new design of Freedom Tower suggest New York's future icon will 'only' stand 1776 feet (reflecting the year of independence). So judging by the design, America will lose with 537 feet (164 meters) from the United Arab Emirates. After analyzing the new design and the statements of Chief architect Childs and New York governor George Pataki, The High Rise Pages has reasons to believe that the redesign indeed is meant to make Freedom Tower the tallest building in the world! Read the headlines, rumors and facts and give us your opinion! June 29, 2005 Today, CNN revealed the redesigned Freedom Tower in New York City. Chief architect David Childs explicitly stated the new tower will have the exact same height as the previous design (1776 feet) and that the main objective of the redesign is making the building more safe. The High Rise Pages has 4 reasons to believe the new design is also an attempt to develop conditions that allow Freedom Tower to become the tallest building in the world. 1) The actual structure of the old and new design of Freedom Tower are indeed the same height at 1776 feet. But in the old design, about one third of the structure was no more than a steel skeleton and a spire. In the new design, the actual building appears to be much taller than in the old design! 2) The new design has a massive reinforced 200 feet tall base, making the building strong enough to carry many more floors than the current design does. 3) The previous design had a conic shape with a wide base and a very narrow and angled roof. Thus making it difficult to increase the height of the building or to attach a very large and heavy spire. The new design appears to be much wider at the top and has a flat roof. This way, suddenly all options are open: even during construction one could decide to add more floors! The new wide roof also gives much more opportunity to add a heavier and taller spire later on. 4) The year of completion has been postponed to 2010, 2 years after the planned completion of the Burj Dubai Tower. This should give New York enough time to adjust Freedom Tower to the height of Burj Dubai Tower. Considering the nature of the new design and planning of Freedom Tower, The High-Rise Pages predicts that during construction of Freedom Tower, additional floors will be added to make Freedom Tower the tallest building in the world! The emotional bond the design has with the exact height of 1776 feet (1776 is the year of US independence) can be implemented in many ways. There will be no need for the building to be exactly 1776 feet tall. Perhaps making a memorial in Freedom Tower (at a height of 1776 feet) to all men and women who died while protecting the freedom and independence of the USA is also an option. And perhaps there could be a physical connection between this Freedom Memorial and the WTC memorial at Ground Zero. Share with friends
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freedomanddemocracy ::: Favorites The BURJ Dubai Tower is now the tallest building in the world even if still under construction. Should the Freedom Tower be at least as tall the the BURJ tower as they are trying to do? Why? Does it make any sense? 07-07-23 11:24:59 _____________________________________________________
abbnormalfunctions ::: Favorites Let me be the first to imply the obvious... 07-07-23 11:45:45 _____________________________________________________
freedomanddemocracy ::: Favorites There will always be a tower taller than these two towers anyway. So, what's the point? WTC is a memorial place, not a building contest. Give the money you're using for building a bigger tower to the 9/11 families and rescue workers instead. Do something really meaningful and not "American superficial". 07-07-23 12:17:25 _____________________________________________________
Chrisneedsrideln ::: Favorites Fly a plane into that shit... 07-07-23 12:48:36 _____________________________________________________
evilthought ::: Favorites What utter nonsense. There is no plans to redesign Freedom tower to compete with Burj Dubai. Stop posting nonsense. 07-07-25 00:14:12 _____________________________________________________
freedomanddemocracy ::: Favorites it seems so ..... someone came out with this weird idea unfortunately 07-07-25 12:47:47 _____________________________________________________
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evilthought ::: Favorites There has been never any serious suggestion to redesign Freedom tower to compete with Burj Dubai. You just cut and pasted some text from some anonymous webpage without any credibility dated it to 2005 (violating copyright of that page by the way). Freedom didn't even compete with Chicago Spire which is taller than Freedom Tower. As I said, the video is complete nonsense because there has been no such suggestion to start with. 07-07-25 19:54:36 _____________________________________________________
freedomanddemocracy ::: Favorites check my description 07-07-25 12:53:16 _____________________________________________________
hoaryrabbi ::: Favorites there are several projects in las vegas which could potentially overtake burj dubai in the future but apart from that... 07-07-25 10:24:29 _____________________________________________________
freedomanddemocracy ::: Favorites check better 07-07-25 12:49:56 _____________________________________________________
freedomanddemocracy ::: Favorites check my description 07-07-25 12:53:03 _____________________________________________________
evilthought ::: Favorites As I told you, the description is nonense ... it's taken from some anonymous webpage with zero credibility dated to 2005, violating the copyright and spreading the misinformation on some webpage). 07-07-25 19:58:52 _____________________________________________________
freedomanddemocracy ::: Favorites you will see .... 07-07-25 20:22:27 _____________________________________________________
freedomanddemocracy ::: Favorites qualify yourself if youare so sure about what you are saying instead. I see a channel with 1 subscriber and no videos ..... so 07-07-25 20:25:12 _____________________________________________________
BNR32001939 ::: Favorites so what, we'll also make other towers, taller than those in your vegas ! what do you think, we are poor people riding in camels??? naah not at all, that was our past, and our future is far more ahead than yours ! no racism, avoid any racist act ! PEACE ! 07-07-28 14:03:32 _____________________________________________________
evilthought ::: Favorites Once again, this video is complete bogus. The Freedom tower height is 1776 feet and no one has ever suggested changing it for several years now, even after they anounced building Chicago Spire 2 or 3 years ago which is taller than Freedom tower. The description of this video is copied from some anonymous web page with zero credibility -- Notice how she doesn't cite the url for this bogus info (google it). 07-07-27 06:29:19 _____________________________________________________
Spyrobandi ::: Favorites u go evilthought the freedom tower is just fine the way it is. roof hight same as the twin towers y bother change it. like u said i also think its bogus 07-07-27 23:24:07 _____________________________________________________
BNR32001939 ::: Favorites DUBAI rocks.... u americans are just jealous, tht's all ! we have enough money to build more enormous bldgs.... if u'r gonna make a 1km tall bldg, we'll make a 1.5km tall bldg ! we have a lot of money (collected from the oil) :D :D :D 07-07-28 14:01:28 _____________________________________________________