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WTC v2.1

keswick — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:09:47 -0800

A new design for the "Freedom Tower"-- the skyscraper that will form the heart of the rebuilt World Trade Center in New York-- has been unveiled. The new tower will be slimmer, straighter and more conventional, it will be set farther back from the street, and it will be placed atop a mammoth, 200-foot concrete-and-metal pedestal designed to repel explosions.

Annals of Bad Taste

Slagman — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:08:46 -0800

Rejected 9/11 Memorial Designs are now online. All 5,201 of them. My favorite is the apple on a spike. Some question the taste of designs that use ghostly jet planes, pez dispenser-like structures or giant red question marks as motifs. Luminaries such as the inventor of the artificial heart and Marky Mark participated. Maybe there's an overlooked work of genius in here. Or maybe not.

Wedgie

luser — Thu, 01 May 2003 09:47:21 -0800

Libeskind's "wedge of light" WTC design isn't what you thought. Specifically, if you thought that sunlight would shine down on the plaza at precisely the interval between the time the first tower was hit, and the time the last tower fell...no. That's not what Libeskind meant after all. Actually, there would be shadows, it turns out. From other buildings! So funny, so pathetic.

Reader-submitted designs for the WTC

oissubke — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 15:50:52 -0800

Reader-submitted designs for the WTC I know I'm going to hell for saying this, but some of these are tremendously funny...

rushmc — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 06:27:58 -0800

Now that's more like it. Finally a design for rebuilding the WTC that captures the appropriate spirit. Far better than the other designs I've seen. No doubt some will think it too much, though. What's your opinion?

owillis — Sun, 20 Jan 2002 04:45:16 -0800

The New WTC? The Max Protech Gallery in Manhattan has an exhibit of sketches and designs from artists, architects, and others with their ideas on how the World Trade Center could be rebuilt