[boris]

Dig an 1100-foot hole in the ground and build them upside down.

If they are built, don't forget the tastefully-camouflaged anti-aircraft batteries, or the giant "KICK ME" signs.

And who will insure them? At what rate?

Who will lease space in them?

Who will voluntarily work in say, the 100th floor?

Will all window offices have parachutes?

They will be seen as a challenge, and the challenge will be accepted. Only next time, the terrorists will use a small nuke to bring them down.

FIRST kill all the terrorists; THEN start designing the replacements.

--Boris

[Momaw Nadon]

I sympathize with some of your concerns.

Which of the three design concepts offered on the WTC2002 website is your favorite?

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

I am for the 2000 ft. tower and I have an answer on 'who would live ther'.

The top floors are to be assigned to the following gov't agencies: INS, the new Office for Homeland Security, the CIA, the FBI, the IRS, the New York Mayor's office, New York State's gov'nor office.

[SamAdams76]

I would gladly work on the 100th floor of a new WTC (or the 200th floor for that matter) if my company could afford the lease. I believe your fears are unfounded. After all, other gigantic skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building and the Sears Tower have never been attacked by terrorists. I think the WTC attack was a one-shot deal that is unlikely to be duplicated again. Don't get me wrong, the terrorists will strike again (unless we manage to kill them all first), but I'm thinking more along the lines of a biological or chemical attack or maybe shooting airliners out of the sky with Stingers. I just don't see a planeload of passengers allowing terrorists to hijack a plane in the USA again without storming the cockpit. Besides, the Air Force will blow it out of the sky anyhow. We were caught with our pants down on 9/11 - it won't happen again.

That said, I don't like the designs on that web page. The building is just too massive and it doesn't fit in with the rest of the Manhattan skyline. I'm all for building the tallest skyscraper in the world there, but I prefer a leaner, sleeker skyscraper along the lines of the Empire State Building or the Chrysler building. Those two buildings reflect excellent taste in architecture and practically define Manhattan. The buildings pictured here look like they belong in Malaysia or Singapore.