[goldstategop]

If the libs had it their way, America would never be built. What they've succeeded in doing at Ground Zero is a sign of what they'd like to see happen all over the country.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[garbanzo]

Overall construction costs and schedules cannot be determined due to 15 pending “essential decisions.”

I'm guessing "essential decisions" is a codeword for "bribes".

[Crazieman]

Rebuild the towers. Would be a better memorial than a $@#ing hole in the ground.

[traviskicks]

A great article.

[supercat]

Such blueprints already exist. Twin Towers II — proposed by structural designer Kenneth Gardner and the late Herbert Belton, an original WTC architect — mirrors the sorely missed high rises.

I don't like the way the bottom columns "fork" into nothing. The forking of the old columns had a structural purpose; the new way just looks silly, IMHO. Also, I'm curious whether the new exterior walls would be as amazingly strong as the old ones were. While it's true the old walls did collapse eventually, they held up far better than would a more conventional design.

[wendy1946]

There is an opening in the world for somebody to become the Andrew Carnegy of carbon fibre. We should be making buildings and bridges out of that stuff and not just arrows and tennis racquets.

[Norman Bates]

I have always advocated rebuilding the same towers albeit with improved structural and security designs.

[Quix]

PART of me wonders if all the fallderall is a function of some of the big power brokers knowing that NYC is going to be nuked in the not too distant future.