Posted on 05/18/2005 10:37:24 AM PDT by Pikamax
NEW YORK (AFP) - New York property tycoon Donald Trump unveiled his design for "bigger, stronger and better" twin towers to replace the World Trade Center originals destroyed on September 11, 2001.
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Denouncing the existing plans for rebuilding Ground Zero as the "worst pile of crap architecture I've ever seen," Trump argued that erecting two new, even taller twin towers was the only valid response to the terrorists.
The consummate self-promoter, known as "The Donald," showed off his proposal just weeks after the official master design was put on hold because of security concerns surrounding the centerpiece 1,776 foot Freedom Tower.
Describing the Freedom Tower as an "empty skeleton," Trump said its construction would be a capitulation.
"If we rebuild the World Trade Center in the form of a skeleton ... the terrorists win. It's that bad," he told reporters gathered in the lobby of his 5th Avenue Trump Towers headquarters on Manhattan.
The design put forward by Trump and his structural engineer Kenneth Gardner, essentially offers a modified version of the original twin towers, erected in the early 1970s.
The replacements would be at least 1,475-feet tall, more than 100 feet higher than their previous incarnations. The new North Tower would also boast a 383-foot communications mast.
"It's bigger, it's stronger and it's better than the previous World Trade Center, and it sets the right tone and the right attitude," Trump said, adding that some members of the public who had seen the model had been moved to tears.
Charles Wolf, whose wife was killed in the North Tower, was more circumspect in his appraisal of the model.
"It spooked me when I first saw it ... the idea of the towers rising again," Wolf said.
"I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it's an interesting idea," he added.
The Trump towers -- he promised not to attach his name to the buildings -- would employ a tube-within-a-tube design with improved fireproofing and larger stairwells.
Gardner said the structures would be able to withstand the kind of attacks that brought down the original towers on September 11, 2001 killing 2,479 people.
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It has a windmill in it.
As long as he doesn't let Apprentice Tana head up the project...
never liked the trumpster, but I really think that this is the way to go.
Denouncing the existing plans for rebuilding Ground Zero as the "worst pile of crap architecture I've ever seen," ...Crap architecture, he calls it!!! I love this man.
Give us back the Twin Towers!!!
Go Trump Go! Courageous Americans are difficult to come by these days.
I wouldn't mind if they made the new towers a bit prettier, with more of a New York kind of look. Empire State, Chrysler building, something with some character.
I hope this will be taken seriously and implemented.
On the other hand, think how much those Freedom Tower coins will be worth if they scrap those plans !!! Everybody --- to that popular Internet auction site, pronto !!!!
I would add atleast 3 connecting walkways between the twin towers.
Put a Mosque in it, let the towel heads pray their.
That would look pretty blah.
Yep. Trump might be a "gonzo" but sometimes he gets it exactly right.
I'm sorta, kinda getting rather fond of "The Donald" and I never even watched his show. Know what it is? He's one man who genuinely enjoys, and is proud to be, an American.
The original WTC was a government boondoggle. They couldn't rent the place for decades.
The reason was simple. The buildings were so big it took ten minutes to get from the lobby to the office. With stricter security measures, it will probably be twenty minutes. That means one-hour smoking breaks.
Why not just put normal buildings on the site, the kind regular developers would put up and rent profitably, because real paying customers actually want to use them?
LOL! He looks like the Pope : )
LOL!! No kidding. She would glue beads on it.
I dunno, I think she's kinda hot!
They should rebuild them. The way they were, only better. Dedicated to all the names of the folks working there that day, and a special dedication to New Yorks finest.
That art-deco freedom thingy is monsterous.
Can we use these to make each one of our Gitmo inmates walk the plank?
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