Vote on the New World Trade Center Design

http://www.wtc2002.com ^ | December 1, 2002 | Derek G. Turner

[hellinahandcart]

Something about a giant robot that stumps all over the place crushing cities underfoot.

LOL. I have a similar reaction to the designs.

"The Thing That Swamped Manhattan" :D

[steve-b]

These designs look like the plastic space ships out of my Starfarers of Catan set.

[anymouse]

None of these designs are appropriate as a memorial or as to the function of a World Trade Center. I find all three uninspiring and architecturally simplistic (not eligant, just simple.)

And it is just a bit too PC that they all have muslim themed crown structures (pyramids and mosque-like dome with spire.) Nothing on this new building should be an homage to the culture that bred those that destroyed the orignal WTC and killed so many that worked there. To do so is an insult to their memories and their surviving families and friends.

A proper WTC II design should be a bold yet inspiring structure that is uniquely American. Don't let the looney left of architecture turn it into a PC reminder of their appeasement of radial Islam.

I prefer the five tower version with the central tower twice as tall as the other four. You could even align it perpendicular to Mecca. ;)

[NJJ]

Sorry, I'm a little late with this comment, but from what I've seen on the causes of the twin tower collapses, there were firewall failures in the inner stairwell/utilities structures that allowed jet fuel to penetrate to lower floors and the floor beams that held the walls together mechanically failed at the elevated temperatures.

I would guess that it would be a lot cheaper to upgrade the designs on these features and on other things that we have learned and otherwise rebuild the exact same towers again. There would be even less guarantee that a different (untested) design would do any better. I would also guess that it could be rebuilt in half the time.

There would also be another statement made about our resolve that could not be made by a new design.