The Freedom Tower may end up with a structurally massive base that is distinctly different from the upper office floors.
The combined experience of the principal owners bring upper office management skills, high levels of customer service, and over 20 years in distribution and sales management.
Other questions included assigned seats in the press room, and the future location of the press quarters (we are now in a prime location, above the old swimming pool but steps away from the lower and upper press offices and the powerful Oval Office).
These are typical inner-urban masonry houses with different facades and individual opening-ratios in mixed usage with shops and restaurants in ground and first floors while in upper floors offices or residential use pre-dominates.
It has struck me (I'm not quite sure why today) that those who are in charge -- from the White House, through the gleaming halls of Congress, around plump Wall Street, in the upper, corner offices of the conglomerates and banks -- all those folks (deep in their hearts) feel that they are right, that they are good.
Common deficiencies noted were risk map updating, monthly data reporting to the upper administrative offices, and timely response to the bug reports.
The upper-story offices with slanted ceilings rented first, proving, one might suppose, that Houston oilmen secretly long to work in garrets.
On the left side of the lobby, a long, faceted form that contains the upper-level offices shoots outward, punching through the front window and cantilevering over the street, smashing the boundary between inside and out.
The attitude, reinforced at galas on the Upper East Side, seeps downtown with some of Bloomberg's appointees, who, years after trading their upper-floor offices for cubicles in the famed City Hall bullpen, have been known to bristle when colleagues use the word "politician," asking, "Is that how you see yourself?" Bloomberg is largely above the snobbery.
