[finnman69]

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[finnman69]

There is an interactive link from the article to a flashmedia presentation that has all the designs.

[Torie]

I don't think buildings higher than about 50 stories are safe. The fire fighters simply can't get up that high in time. Plus, all such buildings should have roof evacuation procedures, and standby helos, as LA does.

[Swordmaker]

Having viewed the entire presentation I am appalled.

The World Trade Towers were about COMMERCE... the give and take of products, ideas, services in exchange for profit. Yet almost all of the ideas I keep seeing, these included, seem to forget that.

Museums, study centers, peace forums, memorials, all are not representative of what went on in the Towers and what the victims were all about... which was LIVING, EARNING, PRODUCING.

What I see is that these people are jumping on the tragedy to forward a SOCIALIST ideal... not a CAPITALIST ideal.

What is needed here is a "finger" in the terrorists' eyes approach... build a BIGGER and BETTER monument to TRADE. Feature throughout the project 2800+ areas of rememberance for the BUSINESS PEOPLE and their customers who died under attack from people who cannot produce anything but destruction and heartache. Make these areas PERSONAL... describing what each person did, who they were, how they made the world better, and how we are the lesser for their untimely deaths.

Make this NEW World Trade Center a magnificent monument to the benefits of Capitalism and of merits people seeking their own advancement that advances everyone's standard of living.

We don't need another park. We don't need another memorial that will fade and be forgotten when the world moves on.

Instead build a reminder that inspires and shines a light on the world of what is GOOD and EXCELLENT in achievement.

Stick a finger in their eyes.

[Commander8]

I say rebuild, give the terrorists a message that says we will not be intimadated.

[GeneD]

Nearly every design I've seen for the WTC site is impractical, meek, and UGLY. Mr. Muschamp's brainstorm has resulted in a raw TV transmitter tower and two high-tech avant-garde bowling pins. It should be trashed more quickly than copies of the Times Magazine.

Face it, we're well beyond the time when William van Alen could pull out the spire of the Chrysler Building literally from within, like a giant magician. If our pop culture and the remnants of our serious culture were mute after September 11, what hope do we have in our trend-following hack architects?

[GeneD]

Extra-added attraction: Martin Fuller, The New Republic's architecture critic, calls Herbert Muschamp an "erratic and ethically challenged architecture critic." I don't know why he wrote that, but I'm not surprised with the paper that gave us Walter Duranty.

[Norman Arbuthnot]

If we do rebuild with one or more 100 plus story towers I would like to see them provided with some defense against aircraft or missles. Maybe a few Phalanx Guns on each tower.

[Eala]

If you want to see buildings that are not "dreary", go to this site: http://www.skyscraperpage.com/. The proposals to replace the WTC towers were thoroughly boring, if not by themselves then at least by comparison.

There are more interesting tall buildings in Shenzhen, China (a city most here have probably never heard of) than in any Western city I have seen. (Try it and look up Shenzhen at this site. At night I've seen them light up a laser from the top of the Shun Hung building.)

[ET(end tyranny)]

There are so many people here at Free Republic, are there no architecs?

How about someone with the ability to sketch well?

I haven't seen a 'good' plan yet, for rebuilding of the towers.

Surely there must be someone here at FR that has the capabilities of making some good sketches.