John G. Hamilton

Architecture 3013

Summer 15'

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     The One World Trade Center is a master piece that I have seen up close in person through the view from a car.  This was last year of 2014 during Thanksgiving weekend while touring the Manhattan area of NYC.  The meaning was very sentimental as the driver and companion who were driving me around to see, expressed the compassion that the building holds to them as citizens of NYC all of their lives.  The affect of it was of me being in awe because I never seen such a beautiful building up close like that, and it being my first ever trip to NYC, I had never thought upon the idea of the One World Trade Center being such an over powering and endearing building.  From just driving by the building I was just amazed at the contour of it.  It was a more amazing sight to see because of the openness of it being not directly next to much of any other building that was much taller, compared to the skyscrapers up the ways around Times Square.  The next day I got to see the beauty of it once again, but from the view from the fairy boat that travels back and forth from Manhattan and Staten Island.  It was astonishing to see the reflection of it and how it just stood out from the harbors view.