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...highest altitudes. Its offices stop at the 70th floor. Those are then topped by a tall "wind farm"--an unpeopled latticework of windmills that can provide as much as 20% of the building's electrical power. If the building is constructed as envisioned, rising from that will be a spire that reaches the record height...
...highest altitudes. Its offices stop at the 70th floor. Those are then topped by a tall "wind farm" - an unpeopled latticework of windmills that can provide as much as 20% of the building's electrical power. If the building is constructed as envisioned, rising from that will be a spire that reaches the record height of 1,776 ft. (541.32 m), in honor of the year the American colonies declared their independence from Britain. Down below, in the occupied floors, the building will incorporate a whole spectrum of new, post-9/11 defensive features. Exit stairways will be wider...
...sent a telegram to the Russian embassy in New York indicating the Lampoon would like to give its ibis for a replacement on the spire of the new University of Moscow as a ‘symbol of the universality of the search for truth,” recalls George S. Abrams ’54, then managing editor of The Crimson...
...home full justice in A View of Toledo (ca. 1597-1599). Bathed in a stormy light that seems to come from everywhere and nowhere, the city with its castles, mighty walls and Gothic church spire looms above a lurid green landscape and a dark, rushing river. The silvery buildings are emphasized by dark halos; an unseen sun makes the clouds glow. No religious drama is going on anywhere: the only figures are manikins fishing, swimming, washing clothes. Yet this may be the most spiritual work he ever produced - a fitting symbol for a painter devoted to illuminating life's ethereal...
Daniel Libeskind's winning plan for rebuilding the World Trade Center site is indeed beautiful, impressive, dynamic and a fitting tribute to those who died Sept. 11 [ARCHITECTURE, March 10]. Unfortunately, the minute the 70-story office structure and spire and other new towering buildings are completed, we might as well paint a huge target on their sides because they are sure to be an objective for any ambitious terrorist. Does anyone really think that companies and workers would be naive or dumb enough to work in one of these buildings? I hope that sober minds prevail and New Yorkers...