Posted on 07/27/2002 5:02:26 AM PDT by quiltingintexas
Good Morning, Fellow Freepers! Good News! Following is an email I received from Derek Turner, designer of wtc2002.com design for the rebuild of the World Trade Center.
This design has gotten into the running. Please VOTE!
I have NOTHING to gain from this except that I am an American who wants the World Trade Center to be AMERICAN - Bigger, Better and Safer. It's what we do when we've been knocked down. We get up and do things GREATER than before.
Greetings My Friends:
Please excuse this interim email but I need your support now more than ever.
As you already know, none of the six designs presented for the new World Trade Center as depicted in the July 26 edition of the New York Post and presented at the "Listening to the Cities" Conference in Manhattan on Saturday,July 20 were met with public support.
To ensure that the process of design elimination is conducted fairly and democratically, let me give you the chance to vote on those six WTC designs and my design WTC2002.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation will review the results of this poll more seriously than ever before.
Once our design, WTC2002 has achieved a 55% or more positive "YES" vote from the people who log on to http://www.wtc2002.com/> we will secure our position as the 7th design.
For all of us, we always knew our design embodied the spirit of America and the spirit of the lives taken on that tragic day almost 11 months ago.
My valued friend, help WTC2002, the 7th design, be presented formally to both The World, The New York Port Authority and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation as the design of choice by the Global Village.
It is most important now (beyond the great support you have provided to date) that everyone click on and vote "YES" on
I encourage you to send this email to your friends, families and co-workers.
It is the "People's Will" to rebuild this magnificent structure on "Ground Hero" and more importantly re-assert to The World our position.
I thank you in advance and encourage you to Think Big!
Be Happy,
Derek G. Turner
P.S "You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.
No-one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lamp-stand, and it gives light to all in the house.
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven".
I believe that this text could well have been written for the City of New York, in fact it is found in Matthew, Chapter 5 Verse 14,15,16).
Of course do you have enough money to pay her fee???
Maybe if you name one of the towers for the Clinton's, she'll only ask for a small donation to her Presidential fund to the tune of 6 figures
Is that the hamster tube thing???
If this plan is built, it will redefine NY and architecture in general for generations to come. It will also bring some rejuvenation to the American spirit as well.
I hope that this thing, or something similar, gets built as quickly as possible.
And I hate, hate, hate the pyramid.
For some reason the first thing I thought of when I saw it was Madonna's bullet bra. Looks like it was stuck on as an afterthought. Ugh.
Sorry, but that's a little misleading. This design is not in the running. I have just spent the past ten minutes reviewing his press releases as well as those of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp and renewnyc, so I know this is the case. The designer merely hopes it will GET into the running with enough "public support".
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation will review the results of this poll more seriously than ever before.
If they reviewed the results of his online poll with 0% seriousness before, well..."more seriously" is relative.
The security is scifi'ish. Five mile sound barriers. 3D body scans.....some really out there stuff
I wasn't talking about safety/evacuation features in my post. I was talking about structural integrity. I don't seen how this design can possibly be flexible enough to accomodate the wind stresses.
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