Talk:200 Greenwich Street

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[edit] Second tallest building?

Are you sure we should say this will be the second tallest building in NYC? I'm not sure if a building's spire counts toward its height, but if that's the case then the Empire State Building's "full structural height (including broadcast antenna) reaches 1,472 feet". Do you know if the height 1300-1450 ft includes any spire or such feature? or not? Will the building even have a spire? -Aude (talk contribs) 02:10, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

According to this List_of_skyscrapers, the Empire State Building is 1250 ft tall, which references Emporis. So, it seems that the "second tallest building" stands up to fact-checking. That being the case, I think this fact that "200 Greenwich Street will be taller than the Empire State Building" is worthy for the main page Did you know... feature. -Aude (talk contribs) 02:23, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Excellent points...the height comments made here and in 175 Greenwich Street and 150 Greenwich Street are mine...based solely on what they say will be the finished heights...I suppose until I can cite this as something that was stated by someone else, it is a violation of WP:OR. Looking at the diagrams of this building though, it appears that there will be no spire. I was pleased with some of the design changes to the Freedom Tower...now that the spire will be centered on the top, rather than offset.--MONGO 04:10, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I am also not opposed to a retitle of these articles, but was scared to mess up disambiguations with the original WTC 2, 3 and 4...there is also a WTC 5 that is planned, but the final verdict on this structure, as far as the architect, has not been determined, as far as I know. By 2007...4 huge office buildings will all be under construction at the WTC site at the same time...big bucks....hope they set up some webcams.--MONGO 04:14, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree that more fact-checking is needed. I think how building heights are determined is subject of some controversy. Other aspects of this article are perhaps a bit too speculative and uncertain, as well, for this to be on DYK. I'll look into the facts some more, too. -Aude (talk contribs) 04:28, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

There are 4 official ways of calculating a building's height. From how the article reads, it seems that it is #2 in highest habitable floor, and that's all I can tell at the moment. But I'm sure we can find out. CoolGuy 16:05, 9 September 2006 (UTC)