Apolyton Archive  |  Preserved copy of the Apolyton Civilization Site and its forums as they stood in September 2005. Read-only; nothing here can be posted to or replied to.  |  Forum index |  About this archive |  The 1998–2001 UBB forums
Today on Apolyton WARDELL INTERVIEW PROMO A.C.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 4 GET CIV4 /w FREE PLUS! A.C.S. PHOTO GALLERY GET A.O.M. V1.1
Apolyton Civilization Forums
main| civ2| civ3| civ4| smac| ctp2| ron| moo3| galciv| galciv2| alt| about|
ApolytonPLUS | register | search | faq | new posts | pm (-/-) | upload | members
hall of fame new! | civgroups | civgroups news | interviews | the column | radio | chat | directory | news | store | PLUS
Apolyton Civilization Forums : Powered by vBulletin version 2.0.3 Apolyton Civilization Forums > Miscellaneous > Archive > Off-Topic-Archive > Revised New York Freedom Tower Unveiled
Show a Printable Version | Email This Page to Someone! | Receive updates to this thread | Report this to Apolyton news!

bottom of page
  
Author
Thread   
Pages (3): [ 1   2   3   ]
< Last Thread     Next Thread > Post New Thread     Post A Reply
Japher is offline Japher
Prince
Ook! Ook! Ack! Ack! Ack!
Jun 2002
time: 05:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 03:04
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#31 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

quote:
Why in God's name do these buildings have to have such a long and useless spire on top?!



I think the movie has something to do with... something about dramatic sequences they can film around...

JohnT is offline JohnT

Emperor
Capitalist
Mar 1999
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 03:05
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#32 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

I still prefer the big Cross with the Mecha-Jesus that could be used to swat down annoying hijacked airplanes.

Can't have everything I guess.

Asher is offline Asher
King
Calgary, Alberta
Nov 1999
time: 22:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 03:05 Visit Asher's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#33 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

quote:
Originally posted by DinoDoc
Why in God's name do these buildings have to have such a long and useless spire on top?!

Bigger target.

DinoDoc is offline DinoDoc
Emperor
AECCP loves Democracy
Sep 1999
time: 23:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 03:06
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#34 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

quote:
Originally posted by Japher
Doom Trade Center
That's in Latveria.

Four Freedoms Plaza would have been better.

GePap is offline GePap
King
of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
time: 23:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 03:07
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#35 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

What would king kong drop down from if not the useless spire?

Sheesh, don't you guys know all brand new NYC skyscrappers have to be Giant Simian proof?

Agathon is offline Agathon
Prince
Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
Dec 2002
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 03:08
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#36 Report this post to a moderator
Full PM-box? Change here!

Freedom Tower? Yuk.

CN Tower all the way....

Japher is offline Japher
Prince
Ook! Ook! Ack! Ack! Ack!
Jun 2002
time: 05:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 03:23
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#37 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

The Japher Center

mrmitchell is offline mrmitchell
King

Donate to the Red Cross

Sep 2002
time: 23:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 04:04
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#38 Report this post to a moderator
Got spare money?

Oh God, what the **** have they done to NYC's skyline!?

(i don't like it)

GePap pointed out that it looks rather isolated. It might be a beautiful building on its own (to some few people somewhere) but I fail to see how it "fits" with the surrounding skyline at all. Maybe I'm just not an arteest.

alva is offline alva
Emperor
Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
time: 06:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 04:20
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#39 Report this post to a moderator
Increase Your PM Length

quote:
The Trade Towers were very masculine. This is a somewhat feminine building.

Am I the only who thinks it looks like an abstract (cubistic(?)) statue of liberty?

DanS is offline DanS
Emperor
Kickball Capital of the World
Jan 1970
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 04:23 Visit DanS's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#40 Report this post to a moderator
Increase Your PM Length

quote:
Why in God's name do these buildings have to have such a long and useless spire on top?!


Well, to be serious for a moment, those are TV transmission towers.

Zylka is offline Zylka
Prince
sure
May 2000
time: 05:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 04:36
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#41 Report this post to a moderator
Remove this text

That first "rendering" is one of the most akward looking scenes I've ever seen used in the proffession. The main spire tower looks decent, but would someone please slam a few (robotic) passenger airlines into those nasty little (unoccupied) quartz growths behind it?

Last edited by Zylka on 20-12-2003 at 04:43

The Mad Monk is offline The Mad Monk
Emperor
of Ice Cream
Mar 2000
time: 23:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 05:19
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#42 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

For perspective, the current skyline (as shot from a supermarket parking lot in Bayonne, New Jersey); the Empire State Building is far left, and you can make out the Statue of Liberty on the far right:

Attachment: nyskyline from stop&shop parking lot, bayonne, nj 102_0214.jpg
This has been downloaded 51 time(s).

Last edited by The Mad Monk on 20-12-2003 at 05:28

Drake Tungsten is offline Drake Tungsten
Prince
Knee deep in alien womyn...
Oct 2001
time: 14:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 07:36
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#43 Report this post to a moderator
Remove this text

I like it.

KrazyHorse is offline KrazyHorse
King
Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 08:22 Visit KrazyHorse's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#44 Report this post to a moderator
Suffering from ads?

quote:
Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
NY takes back the tallest building prize .


Still 60 feet short.

Imran Siddiqui is offline Imran Siddiqui

Deity
The Potterverse
Jan 1970
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 09:44
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#45 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton

quote:
Still 60 feet short.


http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeas...plan/index.html

The tower's height of 1,776 feet, symbolic for the year of American independence, includes a 276-foot spire.

In addition, a broadcast antenna attached to the tower is to bring the structure's total height above 2,000 feet.

Ned is offline Ned
Prince
of Aptos, CA
Oct 1999
time: 21:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 10:22
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#46 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

This looks like a trap to draw OBL forth.

The Mad Monk is offline The Mad Monk
Emperor
of Ice Cream
Mar 2000
time: 23:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 10:29
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#47 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

Nah -- the one in Iraq is working just fine.

KrazyHorse is offline KrazyHorse
King
Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:26 Visit KrazyHorse's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#48 Report this post to a moderator
Tired of ads?

quote:
Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
quote:
Still 60 feet short.


http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeas...plan/index.html

The tower's height of 1,776 feet, symbolic for the year of American independence, includes a 276-foot spire.

In addition, a broadcast antenna attached to the tower is to bring the structure's total height above 2,000 feet.


The Vagabond is offline The Vagabond
Chieftain
of realpolitik and counterpropaganda
Jan 1970
time: 05:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:36
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#49 Report this post to a moderator
Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

I don't like the name "Freedom Tower". Too banal. Besides, an association with "freedom fries" immediately comes to mind.

Whoha is offline Whoha
King
The TOC is supposed to be classified guys...
Dec 2001
time: 23:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:40
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#50 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

and freedom sticks(cigarettes).

How about the aegis tower? what about normal block shaped buildings?

connorkimbro is offline connorkimbro
Emperor
Seoul Korea
Jan 1970
time: 23:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:42
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#51 Report this post to a moderator
Enter the AD-FREE zone

pretty building. stupid name.

JohnT is offline JohnT

Emperor
Capitalist
Mar 1999
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:44
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#52 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Count me among the teeming millions who can't stand the stupid name. Gotta be a cold, sick joke to call an office building "freedom" anything.

KrazyHorse is offline KrazyHorse
King
Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:45 Visit KrazyHorse's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#53 Report this post to a moderator
Put an end to popups!

The name's not that bad. Most skyscraper names are stupid anyway.

connorkimbro is offline connorkimbro
Emperor
Seoul Korea
Jan 1970
time: 23:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:48
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#54 Report this post to a moderator
Increase the size of your Attachments

Yes, but you're canadian, so what would you know, anyway?

KrazyHorse is offline KrazyHorse
King
Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:49 Visit KrazyHorse's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#55 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton

Nothin', eh.

You catch the latest Leafs game on the CBC? Blew me away, eh.

yavoon is offline yavoon
Warlord

Oct 2001
time: 05:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:50
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#56 Report this post to a moderator
Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

I think it should be called the phallic symbol

Boris Godunov is offline Boris Godunov
King
Portland, OR
Aug 2001
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:51
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#57 Report this post to a moderator
Increase Your PM Length

Hurhur, clever.

I'll call it the Bin Laden Building before I go around spouting coerced jingoism like "Freedom Tower."

JohnT is offline JohnT

Emperor
Capitalist
Mar 1999
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:53
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#58 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

Maybe we'll just reverse our terms as many did this past summer and call it the "French Tower."

KrazyHorse is offline KrazyHorse
King
Macedonia
May 2001
time: 00:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:53 Visit KrazyHorse's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#59 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton

Freedom Tower: 600 metres of smooth, hard-rocking fun

Zylka is offline Zylka
Prince
sure
May 2000
time: 05:32
  Old Post 20-12-2003 11:54
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#60 Report this post to a moderator
Increase Your PM Length

I think shut the hell up

 
Pages (3): [ 1   2   3   ]
< Last Thread     Next Thread > Post New Thread     Post A Reply
All times are GMT. The time now is 05:32.
Apolyton Time is 00:32.
    top of page
Rate This Thread:
archivepost
Forum Jump:
Forum Rules:
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is ON
vB code is ON
Smilies are ON
[IMG] code is ON
 




Contact Us - Apolyton Civilization Site - Support Us!

Building a better Apolyton through better information. Click here and take our poll!
Non-US visitors, click here!

Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.0.3
Copyright ©2000, 2001, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited.

Page generated in 0.0524 seconds (90.53% PHP - 9.47% MySQL) with 31 queries
Page Loading Time:

Support Apolyton: Amazon USA | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon FR |
Support Apolyton and get FREE PLUS, Buy from Chips&Bits: Galactic Civilizations | Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition | Call to Power 2 | Civilization: The Boardgame | GURPS/ Alpha Centauri | Alpha Centauri | Civilization IV | Civilization III: Complete |


Front Page | Civilization IV | Civilization III | Civilization II | Call to Power II | Alpha Centauri | Master of Orion III
Rise of Nations | Galactic Civilizations | Galactic Civilizations II | Misc
Alt.Civs | Civ I | C:CtP I | About | News | Directory | Apolyton Store | Forums | Chat | Columns | Interviews | Newsletter
Scenario League | CSC | Clash of Civs | Spanish Site | CtP Maps | Cradle of Civ | WesW's Ctp1/2 Site | Civ3 Haven

apolyton.net | apolyton.com | civilization2.net | civilization3.net | civilization4.net | civilizationiv.info | calltopower.net | galciv.net | galciv2.net | moo3.net