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Architects Pose With The Original Model of the World Trade Center
Google Plus ^ | January 24, 2015 | Staff

Posted on 01/25/2015 11:34:15 AM PST by lbryce

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To: lbryce

Where’s WTC #7...?.. the 47 story tower that “fell down!”


21 posted on 01/25/2015 12:11:55 PM PST by high info voter (kwanzaa)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

“Ten of thousands of hours to design, build, and furnish and just a few seconds to crash planes into and destroy.”

Yes, aside from the dreadful loss of life that was what was most frightening about it.

My mother worked for one of the first companies to move into the WTC. I remember how their move was always delayed, delayed, delayed because of course everything was taking longer than anticipated.

All the efforts of innumerable people, not just in building the buildings, but laying the carpets, moving the furniture, etc., etc. just wiped out, in literally less than an hour.

However, I think the designers deserve a lot of credit, far fewer people died that might have been expected.


22 posted on 01/25/2015 12:13:41 PM PST by jocon307 (Tell it like it is.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I didn’t know that.


23 posted on 01/25/2015 12:14:11 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: null and void

Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge once...

In fact, I have a beautiful leather bag I bought in Little Italy, just two blocks south of the bridge.


24 posted on 01/25/2015 12:14:45 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: high info voter
Where’s WTC #7...?.. the 47 story tower that “fell down!”

It was temporarily removed to Langley to rig it with explosives. /S

25 posted on 01/25/2015 12:17:18 PM PST by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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To: DJ MacWoW
Okay. You've gotten the last word. I wish creepy was never a word I was aware of. I vow never to use it again. And as a matter of fact, I am now convinced that that the WTC was not creepy at all nor was it ever creepy. (Truth be told, I never considered the WTC creepy. I used 'creepy' to describe the event, the moment, the memories of people jumping out from 90 creepy stories high. The sense I felt when I saw those beautiful very uncreepy towers, was creepy but not creepy as in creepy towers, but creepy as in look at those inept, incapable architects. How creepy of them to have allowed this terribly historic tragedy to creep up on us in such a creepy way.
26 posted on 01/25/2015 12:26:49 PM PST by lbryce (Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Offspring of Satan and Medusa.)
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To: lbryce
They were two massive signal flares built to mark the beginning of the end, when lit. And it was lit because Bush slept and Clinton enabled and empowered.

'W' could have stopped it, but he was too clueless and naive, and "his people" too PC to do what needed to be done. The government was too riddled with cancerous liberals to fight the enemy on all fronts. And they and half the country were perpetually emboldened by a man too selfish and power hungry to handle defeat with grace. We lost too much valuable time we can never get back. We sacrificed our military heroes to the altar of political correctness. (This from an administration who's VP said "help is on the way") And the demographics changed too much that De Tocqueville could no longer call us a good country, if he even said it originally.

Obama is the final nail in the coffin. He did what Bush did, only "better". The debt/deficit, demographic replacement, and big government all on steroids.

Every time he leaves the CONUS, we need to be on alert. Something tells me the weasel, his rookie, his children, his close friends, and his masters won't be around when the SHTF.

27 posted on 01/25/2015 12:46:13 PM PST by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation)
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28 posted on 01/25/2015 12:48:27 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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29 posted on 01/25/2015 12:52:35 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: lbryce

Not allowed to even mention, much less discuss what happened to the towers on 911. ONLY the fedzilla explanation is allowed here.


30 posted on 01/25/2015 12:53:00 PM PST by MHGinTN
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To: lbryce

Where’s building seven?


31 posted on 01/25/2015 12:53:37 PM PST by MHGinTN
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To: lbryce

I think it sucks that we can’t have iconic structures without them becoming targets, but the sand ******s can have tall buildings with no fear.

I say let’s take down their tall buildings — but give them a little warning so they can flea into the sandy hovel of their countryside.


32 posted on 01/25/2015 1:06:12 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: lbryce

I lived in Manhattan when the twin towers were around. I once visited to observation deck on the 110 floor.

I always thought of the twin towers as sentinels guarding the NYC. To me, that skyline was the embodiment of Reagan’s “shining city upon a hill.”

That 3,000 people and these powerful symbols of elegance, achievement, affluence and power were destroyed by throwbacks from the 7th century was an act of pure evil. To fully appreciate the magnitude of what was lost on September 11, 2001, one should not only think about the lives lost and terror created, but also of the beauty destroyed.


33 posted on 01/25/2015 1:15:13 PM PST by Bo1988
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To: high info voter

7 was not constructed until the 1980s.


34 posted on 01/25/2015 1:19:01 PM PST by NoKoolAidforMe (I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

An upside down black cube, just like the one in mecca.
Shrine to Satan, if you ask me.


35 posted on 01/25/2015 1:22:04 PM PST by winodog (hang on tight to Gods salvation)
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To: lbryce

Folks, do not think that the people who were murdered on 9-11-01 are the only victims of that day. I know several people who were first responders who are now sick. They are battling lung diseases, gastrointestinal problems, heavy metal contamination in their blood and organs, a dry hacking cough that will not go away, and cancers. They are sick, and the government is doing squat to help them. I know of two first responders who have died of cancer. Both of them spent months down at the site. Both were under 50 when they died. Both have no family history of cancer. There are hundreds of brave people who are now starting to see their symptoms manifest. It makes me so angry.


36 posted on 01/25/2015 1:25:34 PM PST by NoKoolAidforMe (I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: lbryce

Point?

I do not know why it would be “not the best time to post”? What has happened that makes it inappropriate, in the minds of the overly sensitive?

It’s a nice pix of some men who worked on the towers. Sad, in a hindsight way, but not much else to say.


37 posted on 01/25/2015 1:34:08 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I believe the fellow on the right was the architect.

He was an unknown architect that won the design competition.

They loved his design because it hat a free span from the elevator shafts to the outside bearing walls. So no columns in the way in the office spaces.

Believe it or not, the outside walls were load bearing unlike the structural grid systems that were more common.


38 posted on 01/25/2015 2:27:57 PM PST by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: lbryce

I see a team of designers and engineers justly proud of their project. I’ve always been quietly amused that the architect was afraid of heights, and he designed the windows to make people feel secure.


39 posted on 01/25/2015 2:32:18 PM PST by Nepeta
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To: Diogenesis

Muslims want to file suit for their peaceful pilots running into buildings constructed directly in the flight path of their mercy flights.


40 posted on 01/25/2015 6:32:29 PM PST by Rodamala
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