World's tallest building planned for WTC site

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Clear Skies
Doesn't anyone else think it might be a bit of an obvious target for possible future attacks?...

Just breathing makes us targets.

Anyhow, Fez had a good train of thought regarding defense. Although putting AA guns on civilian buildings is impractical, certain more strict guidelines regarding air traffic should be drafted and enforced. No-Fly zones around Downtown areas and major urban landmarks except for helicopters (News, Ambulance, Police, Government, and Military), flight corridors for approach and departure out to several miles from airport, and so on.

The thing about massive buildings (meaning girth, not just height) is that it is much harder to bring them down because of their size. More fire-suppression, more escape routes, more room to absorb the impact of a jetliner. The two jets of 9-11 were almost as wide as the two towers, I'm still suprised they didn't slice clear throught the buildings like cutting stalks of celery. If the towers had been twice as thick, they might not have collapsed, or at least stood much longer after the impacts.

[Felch]

Originally posted by Clear Skies
Doesn't anyone else think it might be a bit of an obvious target for possible future attacks?...

Yeah, but we're Americans. The world's greatest *******s. Nothing makes us happier than taunting people who hate us.

[Seneca]

How about a nice mosque or something?

[Provost Harrison]

You're a tease Seneca

Yeah, that building Drosedars is very nice, but could you imagine how much it would cost to build?

[Carver]

That building is as ugly as poop from a mad cow with an upset stomach.

[Seneca]

Does that make its poop uglier?

[Ned]

This idea is great. Inspiring. Wonderful!

As to the memorials, I have previously express my views on this. But I think Osama bin Laden hisself ought to be a live exhibit, strung between two replicas of the WTC, with a platform for the children to spit and urinate.

[Zylka]

Oh my GOD how can anyone consider that hack design good looking? I'd love to see the world's new tallest there, but it probably won't happen. New York/ Jersey are already bidding for tallest free-standing structure with a new tower - the risk and architectural overkill of a tallest skyscraper just does not make it realistic

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Seneca
How about a nice mosque or something?

Why haven't mosques been installed in all major US landmarks as a protective measure? You can't tell me that having F-16's on standby is cheaper...

[Boris Godunov]

That design is horrific.

Having a larger no-fly zone over Manhattan would be impossible, as there are three major airports in spitting distance (Newark, JFK, LaGuardia).

I would like to see a big building there, but it doesn't have to the world's tallest, IMO. Just something to make the skyline unique again.

[Sandman]

Whatever's built should be realistically useable. A mega-tower with loads of empty office space would be pretty sorry tribute.

[monolith94]

If they find they have lotsa empty office space…
they can use it to house the homeless!

[Dinner]

Here is a question for those of you who have said you don't like the proposed design for the WTC site. How would you make it better? If you dislike the archatecture then what would you change? Keep in mind that your suggestions should be financially & politically viable and should do something practical towards replacing the business space and tax revenues which have been lost.

[Urban Ranger]

Damn evil Flash crap. I closed the Window right away. I should be given a choice of viewing Flash crap or just look at some conceptual renderings. Blah.

Okay, enough ranting. I haven't seen it, but skyscrappers are always butt ugly. You can't make skyscrappers look good. Not even the great architects such as I.M. Pei.

I'd say give one of them free reign - they will do much better than coming out with a skyscrapper.

[Dr Strangelove]

In the article that Drosedar linked the new tower is hailed as a symbolic "turning of the other cheek". I'm wondering what a building that was not a "turning of the other cheek" would look? Was someone thinking of building something that resembled a Minuteman missle silo?