That's a neat idea.

I can't think of a single Ace schtick that applies in this situation. Dang.

Uhhhh: Loose shit?

You're overlooking the fact that one enormous tower flanked by two smaller ones could easily be shaped to resemble one giant middle finger. Which would also kick ass.

I like it. It would look like we're flippin em off too.

Bonus.

Just rebuild them as they were using modern materials and fireproofing.

If you're worried about getting tenants in there, here's a nifty idea: the U.N. wants a new building (or at least a major remodeling) at Turtle Bay, doesn't it? Scrap that; put them in the Top 25 floors of each of the new Trade Center towers. It would make a powerful statement, and if the buildings are attacked again, it becomes a de facto attack on the world itself.

Plan B: Relocate the U.N. to Europe.

Yes, but we don't say that in the proposal, do we?

Meh... I never really liked IM Pei's WTC. It was cold and inhuman, and it overpowered the rest of the NYC skyline. I'd rather have something more organic and inviting. I agree that Freedom Tower was a monstrosity, but it's closer to my taste than was the original.

I can't think of a single Ace schtick that applies in this situation. Dang.

AMATEUR-RETRO-ARCHITECHTING LIKE A FUCK'N HAMMER!

Nah -- doesn't exactly sing, does it.

Why waste primo real estate on the UN?

This whole windmill in the sky thing sucked ass.
They shoulda rebuilt the two towers as the tallest buildings in the world. There's no better memorial than to say "we're not afraid of you."

Besides some schmuk in Miami wants to build a 110 story condo for Chrissakes.

gr8 idea.

out of the destruction rises an even higher tower

Great idea ACE, those who wanted a memorial park to the dead are a buchn of whiney, little liberal bitches!

How about a giant e plurbus uman (I'm from Texas) symbol?

I hated the plans from their inception and I cannot say that I am upset that they are going back to the drawing board. Would have been nice if they could have figured some of this shit out before they started building the monstrosity.

Totally agree, Ace.

I just don't understand why they aren't already built!!!

It's ridiculous.

And we put the UN in the top 40 floors with the Arab nations at the top. Then let the f'ers knock 'em down. In sh'allah baby.

I wanted this. It was designed by Gaudi almost a hundred years ago, and nobody designs beautiful buildings like this anymore.

After the Great San Francisco Earthquake that levelled the city, it was 40% rebuilt by 1908.

Nagasaki was rebuilt by 1950. So too London, Coventry, Budapest.

Better than before.

Rebuilt with only minor attention on "The Greatest Victims of All" in each city. Yeah they died, and that is a tragedy, but we're not turning it all into a big memorial to them.

The Pentagon was rebuilt in a year, as I remember, with a small memorial to 1/100th of 1% of American soldiers killed in war set off the building.

The problem with the WTC is the victims became the strident needs of the Victim families, or the Families of the Heroes, as they liked to say....and for 3 years it was All About Them. The sacred footprints to be worshipped and reamin forever untouched, the museum, the pools of reflection...the need for the architecture to be 9/11 made immortal as the Greatest Loss in History......and all the other schmaltz that came with the Mournathon...Promises were made by all the powers that be, billions spent...and still it's just a Pit, and it will be a Pit for years to come.

And will be largely forgotten as the Murrah memorial building & Peace Park with the 158 metal chairs was when 9/11 happened, if a bigger attack happens.

I'd love to see the Towers back. Just as they were. No taller, no shorter.

People would ask, but how would we be memorializing them?.... By the simple fact that they're there again. No one on this earth can possibly NOT know what happened that day. Whether you're elated or devastated by the events of that day, you know that the Twin Towers fell.

Putting them back in their rightful spots is not only an honor to those who died, but the biggest "fuck you" to those who cheered in the streets the days following 9/11.

Rebuild 'em. Stronger.

Good idea, except for the fact the bad guys now have three new targets to choose from

How come in the US we don't have any of the skyscrapers we see in sci-fi films? I wan't stuff from Blade runner or the Star Wars Coruscant planet or whatever it's called.

Old established economies don't like fantastic new skyscrapers, young growing ones do. Dubai in particular is going all out.

Beautiful Hotel

2,000 ft high American-designed Futuristic Skyscraper

So basically we're gonna build something really, really tall between two not so tall things?

Kinda like Bob Dole's Cock?

I'll be there to cut the f'n ribbon. Or should I say slice the f'n ribbon? Like a hammer.

Winston Churchill once said something to the effect of, if the Nazis knock down Big Ben or the Tower of London, it will be rebuilt; if they knock it down again it will be rebuilt again, etc. (I think). We should rebuild the Towers as they were, with a few modifications: Special rooftop accomodations for the UN and Arab League, right next to the anti-aircraft missile batteries.

It would be simple enough to honor the victims with a memorial plaque or whatever they did to honor the victims of the Pentagon attack.

I've seen that one

NewWTC

Let's seize the oil fields of Saudi Arabia and use the proceeds from sale of the oil to rebuild the Towers, with gold plate. At the top of the Towers, I'd like to have a special menagerie, where people can come to point and jeer at Saddam, "Crown Prince" Abdullah, Bandar bin Sultan, and everyone else to whom we grant quarter in coming years.

Wanda ... If we build THAT, does the rest of NY become the proverbial bottom drawer of Ma's bedside nightstand? The one we're not allowed to look in?

Aw, c'mon - it's cool! It would be like living in a Fritz Lang movie - a German one, not one of those Westerns he made when he got to Hollywood. And I'd like it to be green, like in the picture, too, but on that I'm flexible.

Richard,
Pei didn't design the WTC... is was Yamasaki.

I agree that Freedom Tower was a monstrosity, but it's closer to my taste than was the original.



Is that like how Bill Maher would prefer to be diddled as a kid than beaten by a school yard bully?

We should build 5 towers, one of them opposable to the others, with the middle one straight up while the others are kind of hunched over.

The symbolism will not be easy to miss.

Plus, it fits NY to a t.

I'm with RWS -- why all the ditzing around?!? Enough with the schmaltz already: we've got *business* to do.

People don't want to build over the footprints because the whole Pit is a graveyard and the footprints even more so. (In many U.S. cities, construction stops once a burial ground is discovered.)

Besides, leaving the footprints empty reminds us that something that should be there is gone.

Minoru Yamasaki's original design would have withstood the heat better. If the Federal regulations had not forced the owners to abate the asbestos fire-proofing, the death toll would have been much less.

I agree with Ace, there should be a taller tower, with more square footage and a more unique design. The problem lies with the money that it will cost.

To relieve the problem of stomping on hallowed ground, the site should be excavated and the remains that are left should be taken to Arlington National Cemetery and be given a proper place in the area near the Tomb of the Unknown.