People's stupid ass ideas concerning the WTC site.

[red_jon]

[monolith94]

That's one funny didldo building.

[Adagio]

WTC was beautiful... sure, I haven't seen them in real life, but on the photos of NY skyline, they were great... Though I don't hope, they'll make them exact the same again, as mentioned before: The new towers should be bigger, better and prettier... If they just build a park (Or just normal buildings), then the terrorists would have won

I just read an article in a danish science "newspaper" (Illustreret videnskab: illustrated science (I think that'll be the translation)), were they are showing a few of the good ideas on how the towers should be re-built... One of the pictures are showing four towers hanging together as two towers...looks really great... Has anyone found a website, were the ideas are shown, I'd like to see more of the ideas..?

[Boris Godunov]

A proposal in the NY Times Magazine from one Architecture firm:

[dunk]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin


Perhaps four small towers and one large one, in the shape of a raised middle finger, would send the right message to the terrorists.

And would be quite appropriate for NYC.

You know, to commemorate New Yorkers' legendary friendliness.

[Chris 62]

Boris, I don't think that design is fitting for NY, such artsy buildings would seem out of place I think.

[Boris Godunov]

New Yorkers are friendly, we're just in a hurry. When stupid tourists start wasting our time by:

1) Taking forever to decide what to order at a restaurant/Deli
2) Walking .02 mph down the sidewalk, looking up at the tall buildings while we're trying to get someplace
3) Walking straight out of a store into the middle of the sidewalk and stopping, talking with their gaggle of fellow tourists, blocking everything
4) Holding up entire subway trains by holding the doors to ask someone for directions since they don't know where they are going
5) Or asking us directions to easily-found landmarks they shouldn't miss, like the ESB or Central Park

we tend to get a little impatient and cranky.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Chris 62
Boris, I don't think that design is fitting for NY, such artsy buildings would seem out of place I think.

I think they're ghastly, which is why I posted it in the "stupid ass ideas" thread.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
New Yorkers are friendly, we're just in a hurry. When stupid tourists start wasting our time by:

1) Taking forever to decide what to order at a restaurant/Deli
2) Walking .02 mph down the sidewalk, looking up at the tall buildings while we're trying to get someplace
3) Walking straight out of a store into the middle of the sidewalk and stopping, talking with their gaggle of fellow tourists, blocking everything
4) Holding up entire subway trains by holding the doors to ask someone for directions since they don't know where they are going
5) Or asking us directions to easily-found landmarks they shouldn't miss, like the ESB or Central Park

we tend to get a little impatient and cranky.

Nah -- you're just one of those jaded SOB, and you won't admit it.

[Rogan Josh]

Originally posted by loinburger

I dunno why, but you're about the last person I'd expect to say that.

What can you mean?

[loinburger]

It's just that I always associate you with physics and religion, not dildos.

Edit: Is it "dildos" or "dildoes"?

[Kepler]

Originally posted by Chris 62
If you had seen the towers, you would never call them ugly, they were as impressive as they were graceful, elegant in form and function, two more beautiful buildings would he hard to find.

I saw them being built, in their glory, and when they fell, there was nothing ugly about them but their end.

I watched them go up and lived within sight of them for years. They weren't ugly or elegant, they were just boring. They always looked like they ought to lean on each other to keep from falling asleep.

There are truly ugly (Prudential, Sears Tower) and truly elegant (Hancock, Chrysler) skyscrapers. WTC was just 100+ stories of disinterest.