Seven New Designs Unveiled For New World Trade Center

I am partial to this design. There is a sense of symmetry and strength that I find very appealing.

I voted for the Richard Meier and Partners design. The vertical colums intersected by horizontal walkways are, as I'm sure was intendended, evocative of the photos of the bit of facade standing defiantly though mortally wounded amid the post-collapse debris ... an image I will find always haunting.









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This link's pictures are a bit more detailed:
Link to WTC Designs

Oh, good eye, Timber. I didn't get that until you said so, and now see it clearly.

As a general note, I love to see more visionary stuff on the table, rather than the boring "by committee" things.

I still want Maya Lin to take a shot.

This is my favorite:



It's rather like the skeleton of the original towers is still there. I think it makes an appropriate memorial.

sozobe, actually there will be a separate competition to design the actual memorial. This is just for the buildings to be constructed, leaving space for the eventual memorial that is selected. So she still may participate.

I saw these this afternoon and I honestly don't like ANY of them. There was one that reminded me of a picket fence!

I guess I think that the new WTC should look a bit like the old one.

My idea was for four 50-60 story buildings, aligned to the 4 compass points and a memorial plaza in the middle.

I wasn't too impressed with any but if I had to choose it would be Patterson Littenberg's design. All the others do not seem a good fit with the surrounding architecture. I would prefer something with clean lines.
Would post the picture but haven't the slightest idea how.

Ah, right.

THINK's SkyPark
I'm in love with THINK's SkyPark proposal.

Great link, thanks for posting it!

Only in America! We may be down but never out!

No problem, I'm trying to spread the SkyPark love. I'm annoyed that the media keeps focusing on THINK's Memorial Towers proposal (the skeletal Twin Towers). Not only do I not like that one personally, but I think the SkyPark is wonderful and deserves more attention.

I try to imagine a visitor at the new site ......

I imagine someone standing at the site during each of the four seasons, and at different times of the day, facing in all directions, at elevations from ground to cloud, with eyes open, with eyes closed ……the light and the wind, the heat and the cold, speak to him in a language without words …. and there he stands, up high, in an open space, without walls, and they talk to him, all of them, the souls who lived here and died here, and who now enthusiastically come here to visit and to reconnect ….. and in another space, he sees only the corner of a room, and a desk in that corner, just a desk, set upon a section of floor, just a section, … and there he pauses.

On September 11th, 2002, they visited us all for the first time ….. surely we felt their presence in the visible, blustery, gusts of chilling wind interwoven with the bright light and warmth of the sun …. make no mistake about it, they were there.

Souls can not be confined in cubes and solid spaces nor can they be bound by ceilings and floors. Perhaps our visit with these souls ought to be experienced through our hearts and our senses rather than through our minds.

A structure, then, ought to be the essence of a building but not a building, with open places and spaces, undefined boundaries, dark and cold, warm and light, loud and still, a desk here, a copier there, the sun and the clouds and the wind everywhere.

And, forgive me, but I also feel this should be a place not uniquely American, but uniquely human. Without their even knowing it, September 11th brought us Americans closer to our international brothers and sisters. Insulated and, in most cases, innocently uninformed, we, on that day, became one with the kind of suffering humanity experiences regularly and historically all over the world.

This space is their space, too.

I think Peterson Littenburg gives most thought to the memorial feel. The footprints are emphasized by gardens, and this one has more pronounced green space.

As far as beauty, my vote is with bandylu. The two 'skeletons' (we have to think of a better term) show a beauty or angel-type commemoration of the original two towers.

Its hard to really get a sense of what some of them would look like.

These are better choices, IMO, than some of the nutty looking architechtural olympics we saw in the first round of choices.

I wish they'd just build exact replicas of the old buildings. The NYC skline will forever feature the twin towers in my mind.

Well I like the Sky Park idea but in reality the property is too valuable for open an open space and I agree with CDK I just cannot imagine NYC without the Twin Towers not at all. In fact I did not go up while I was back east because I am not ready yet.

Everytime I think about the Towers now, I can't imagine them except how I last saw them, on fire. If they were rebuilt I'd never be able to look at them, I would always see them engulfed in smoke and flames.

Very nicely put, angie. I agree completely.


And welcome to A2K.



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