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Posted on 07/27/2002 5:02:26 AM PDT by quiltingintexas
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To: quiltingintexas
Pretty cool but stands zero chance. Looks too much like a Habitrail. NYers would never stand for that.
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posted on
07/27/2002 5:06:11 AM PDT
by
Glenn
To: quiltingintexas
Get Hillary to sign off on it and it's a done deal.
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
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posted on
07/27/2002 5:11:11 AM PDT
by
JZoback
To: Glenn; rintense
If it provides different means of evacuation, I think many would go for it.
To: JZoback
BTTT
To: RedBloodedAmerican
RedBloodedAmerican - If you go to the site and check out the safety features you can see for yourself that this has been taken in account especially since 9/11.
http://www.wtc2002.com/start.lasso
To: Glenn
Habitrail.Is that the hamster tube thing???
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posted on
07/27/2002 5:37:47 AM PDT
by
JZoback
To: quiltingintexas
I like it. It is different, unusual, and daring. Just the sort of thing that is needed in NY and the rest of the country. What we don't need is just more of the same old tired rectangular glass boxes.
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.
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posted on
07/27/2002 5:44:31 AM PDT
by
DeSoto
To: dighton; aculeus; general_re
Looks like something a set designer on a very bad science fiction movie would create. Perishingly ugly.
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posted on
07/27/2002 5:45:07 AM PDT
by
Orual
To: quiltingintexas
Maybe I have watched too many Arnold S. sci fi movies, but the description of this building sounds just like one of them, LOL.
To: DeSoto
Thanks, DeSoto - My thoughts also. Daring is a good word for it. IN YOUR FACE Attitude.
For those who have posted some negative replys - well - you can't please all the people all the time.
To: ican'tbelieveit
ican'tbelieveit - This IS the 21st century after all. Why not have a "SCI-FI" look to it?
To: Orual
I'm wondering how five towers of that height, clamped together, are supposed to sway without tearing each other apart. Bet an architect says this isn't even doable.
And I hate, hate, hate the pyramid.
To: quiltingintexas
I think it is quite ugly, yet somehow at least makes a 'bigger' statement than those sorry-ass official government designs.
Why not two square towers, 112 stories high?
To: hellinahandcart
hellinahandcart - Have you checked out the menu for safety on the site? I'm no expert by any means - but it appears that that has been taken into account as well. I'm sure there will be some modifications with time and FEEDBACK from AMERICANS.
To: quiltingintexas
Sorry. I think its unbelieveably ugly. Big thumbs down here. (Then again, I haven't seen any plan that I like.)
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posted on
07/27/2002 6:05:59 AM PDT
by
Utopia
To: hellinahandcart
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.
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posted on
07/27/2002 6:07:24 AM PDT
by
Orual
To: quiltingintexas
This design has gotten into the running. Please VOTE! 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.
To: quiltingintexas
Not the look, I have nothing but respect for people who have the ability to design, as long as they don't ask for my tax $$$ to do it.
The security is scifi'ish. Five mile sound barriers. 3D body scans.....some really out there stuff
To: quiltingintexas
I did check out the "safety" section, got a real good chuckle out of the concept of repelling planes with sound waves and establishing a 5-mile no-fly zone arond the new WTC.
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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