Thursday, October 08, 2009

Tower & Chimney / Tour et Cheminée

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We used to call it the NBtel tower, Now we’re getting used to call it the Aliant Tower. I guess from now on, it’s going to be the Bell Aliant Tower.
On l’a appellée La tour NBTel, on s’habitue maintenant a l’appeller la tour Aliant. Maintenant j’imagine qu’on va devoir la nommer la Tour Bell Aliant. Certain l’appelleront peut-être la Bell tour Aliant?

3 comments :

chris said...

non... ca sera toujours la NBTel tower...
lol!

on est de la vieille generation asteur! hehehehe

Anonymous said...

it'll be the BellAliant until the company merges with someone else....I just wish the satellites and top windows still lit up at night!

The Monctonator said...

There's an elevator inside. If they're not going to focus its use on communications they can rework the whole tower into an observation tower and tourist attraction. It's got the right diameter and schemes to accommodate such a retrograding. The elevator could stop at the first tier first and the top could be converted to an outdoor, bar grilled off, observation deck. Even the smaller higher platforms on the top can be retroed for tourists into small lookout birdcage platforms. The outdoor observation tiers would be birdcaged off and glassed off, too. You could even fit a shop and cafe in there. In the main building at street level you can have a cafe, restaurant, post office, arcade, stores and a Moncton and Tower museum. Even a future subway or light rail station. They could work with the surrounding businesses that could even be connected by underpasses and walkways to the main Tower building. This is what's been done to The Eiffel Tower and The Empire State Building and The Washington Monument. It would be a great historical attraction for Moncton and The Maritimes. It would also bring the lights back. Maybe an animated sign up the Tower. Geothermal energy would probably work well with this.