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Title: What do you Think of the Libeskind Design?


Agglomeration - March 1, 2003 06:43 AM (GMT)
The choices are here folks. I personally think, however, that this design is a bit too morbid. At the very least Libeskind should raise two of its skyscrapers to 100 floors and 1,300 feet.

More to come...

savethewtc - March 1, 2003 04:24 PM (GMT)
I support the originals built, but I think it's possible to transform those 5 surrounding buildings into Twin Towers, in which an open design competition can be set to design the Towers. I feel the "Gardens Tower" is not great but decent, it definetely can't stay as it is though.

Agglomeration - March 1, 2003 05:29 PM (GMT)
Governor Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg have disregarded their own LMDC site planning committee's recommendation, and thus the Libeskind plan has been selected as the WTC master plan. It can easily be argued that Libeskind's plan adds nothing of any value to the WTC site and turns it into a necropolis. It does absolutely nothing to either replace what we lost, or memorialize the deceased in a respectful, dignified, and appropriate manner. As such we regard, the current Libeskind design as an architectural atrocity.

Press reports have referred to the Libeskind plan as "PITiful" and as "Switchblade Park." We couldn't agree more. Its short buildings sheared off at sharp angles look like shards of broken glass after being bombed. We feel these awful structures would impose great pain and suffering on millions of New Yorkers. Libeskind's 30-foot-deep open bathtub pit would be a neighborhood-destroying abomination, an insult to the good people who live in Battery Park City, and all who work near the WTC site. Brokers have told Larry Silverstein that their clients will not locate into a complex overlooking a death pit.

Libeskind's "World's Tallest Building" is an ornamental structure that does nothing to restore our skyline and features bio-sphere technology that would render the building a maintenance nightmare for its unfortunate keepers. Finally, the Libeskind plan would issue a very confusing statement and message to the great multitudes of tourists who would NOT be visiting there.

Team Twin Towers http://www.teamtwintowers.org

TalB - March 2, 2003 03:22 AM (GMT)
Enough of replacing what we lost on 9/11/01, I say we must rebuild what we lost on 9/11/01.

Alex - March 3, 2003 02:08 PM (GMT)
Daniel Libeskind's Deathpit Lunacy: Buildings with 70 habitable floors "at most," a patently useless greenhouse sliver lean-to, topped by a spire not much taller than the 1,728 foot communications tower atop the old 1 WTC. This flimsy sliver is only adding insult to injury. Libeskind's 1,776 foot pole is only good for raising a white flag, for pointing out: "Look what Osama has done. See how we never recovered."

Any serious proposal for the new WTC MUST include two Towers of at least 110 habitable floors and 1,368 feet to roofline each, no matter what goes alongside them. The new Towers must not be less breathtakingly bulky than the old ones. Libeskind can put his 1,776 foot spire atop such new Twin Towers.

Towers in every dimension at least as tall and grand as the Twin Towers are a must for the new WTC. Not just a flimsy "skyline element," but real buildings, habitable all the way to the top. We cannot replace the Eighth Wonder of the Modern World with something less. That would be a crime against civilization and progress. It would discourage any aspiration a human being may have.

We shall not have Libeskind's Lunacy! Get involved and support building a new WTC of dignified, super-tall office Towers! Not Libeskind's greenhouse sliver!

WTC Restoration Movement: http://www.put.com/wtc/

NYC Skyline message board: http://www.theopinion.com/newyorkcityskyline/



TalB - March 7, 2003 12:43 AM (GMT)
Lower Manhattan is not made for something cultural. Maybe at first his buildings would be appreciated, but in years to come it would become forgotten. Of course this is how the LMDC is known for thinking. If only they knew how to think long term rather than short term, then they would know what to build on the WTC site. This could look like something to add to Forgotten NY since it would be remembered there.

Danielle Kimberler - June 20, 2003 10:04 PM (GMT)
The buildings look stupid it looks like broken teeth. The original twin towers when it was just two teeth in the Manhattan Skyline.




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