Re: Re:[ZION] World's Tallest Buildings

2002-12-23 Thread Jon Spencer
I am glad that you know what is in the hearts of all men. I myself have no such gift. Jon John W. Redelfs wrote: > > No, we are just modest and humble in spite of our reasons for being > arrogant. Wouldn't it be nice if our fellow Americans were the > same? Instead they indulge themselves in s

Re: Re:[ZION] World's Tallest Buildings

2002-12-21 Thread John W. Redelfs
Jon Spencer favored us with: Wimps! You're all wimps! No, we are just modest and humble in spite of our reasons for being arrogant. Wouldn't it be nice if our fellow Americans were the same? Instead they indulge themselves in self-congratulations at every turn, and build skyscrapers to com

Re: Re:[ZION] World's Tallest Buildings

2002-12-21 Thread Jon Spencer
Wimps! You're all wimps! Noj - Original Message - From: "Val" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 10:35 AM Subject: Re:[ZION] World's Tallest Buildings > I agree, John. On NPR this morning, I heard tha

Re: [ZION] World's Tallest Buildings

2002-12-19 Thread Elmer L. Fairbank
At 17:30 12/18/2002 -0900, BLT wrote: I think it is hubris to imagine we should build towers still taller than the WTC. Sure they can build them, but the experience with the WTC proves that someone else can knock them down. What is the point? Why make buildings a tempting target unnecessaril

Re:[ZION] World's Tallest Buildings

2002-12-19 Thread Val
I agree, John. On NPR this morning, I heard that the original plans submitted this summer, were short buildings and plazas--and New Yorkers protested that they thought the plans were "too boring". All twelve of the new plans call for tall buildings. Again, the arrogance of the American--some

Re: [ZION] World's Tallest Buildings

2002-12-18 Thread Marc A. Schindler
My wife treated me to pizza tonight (we went to the local Boston Pizza) and she was telling me that she had heard that one of the guys who crashed the plane into the WTC was an architect, and had very strong (doh!) opinions on how the West's architecture was blasphemous. I won't go into all of what

[ZION] World's Tallest Buildings

2002-12-18 Thread John W. Redelfs
I think it is hubris to imagine we should build towers still taller than the WTC. Sure they can build them, but the experience with the WTC proves that someone else can knock them down. What is the point? Why make buildings a tempting target unnecessarily? I should think that the builders o