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There’s this sick joke going around.
You see they are planning to rebuild the towers, only this time there will be FOUR!
There would be three shorter towers and one REALLY TALL tower. They would be arranged so that they would "FLIP THE BIRD" at those who destroyed the origional towers!
But seriosly I think that days of the super tall sky scrapers are over. It is inconvienient to supply them. With modern communications the nessecity of being in the city is just not so great as to make the cost of building and maintaing a super sky scraper so important.
But I think the idea of another park in NYC will just attract the homeless. They sould just build a nice building there. Maybe have it on stilts like the Seagram building (if I remember correctly the Seagram building was one of the first "Glass Box" type sky scrapers.) Then there could be a memorial underneath it.
Maybe they could have a archetecture contest for the basic design ideas.
The 9-11 event has really got me thinking about something. True Islam condems suicide. All this dying for Allah stuff is BS! And yet there is is. But I think this come out of the Assasin cult or something equally strange. These guys ought to be treated as the true infidels by the Islamic world. Prehaps true Moslems could make a contribution to a WTC memorial that expresses this.
Hey Rubrick,
Cool ideas, agree with the huge skyscraper no longer being the way to go…definitely. Sounds like there will be more than a few buildings that will need to be rebuilt around that area in NY.
My rational behind a stand alone memorial park/garden versus one inside the towers/buildings is really just a personal thing. If someone close to me died and I didn’t have anything left to identify him ie a grave/body I would need something that represented him to touch/visit versus just the memory. A memorial garden/wall would give me a place to go ie the last place my loved one was. I really believe people get a lot of comfort from that sort of thing, hope they can sacrifice a small piece of land around the site to honor and memorialize all that died that day…and I don’t just mean the people. It would also symbolize for me the pulling together and strength shown by everyone thru this event, which continues to amaze me.
Allison
<BLOCKQUOTE><font>quote:</font><HR> Originally posted by salamiguy:
Correction:hateful people are a waste of space.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I’m not a hateful person, I just dislike something as impractical as a Memorial that stands only as a memorial. I recognize that many people died here, but that isn’t reason to take up space that can be better used elsewhere. there’s no reason that we couldn’t build a new trade center on the site, and maybe turn the lobby into the memorial, or something, but turning such a large plot of land into a memorial for people who simply had huge misfortune(i know that sounds more callous than intended) simply seems impractical.
im just waiting for us to start bombing those bastards i hate to say even thier innocent hate us and were partying in the the streets there children are brainwashed and they all ahve to go, as a for the arabs in this country we shoul give them the option to join our army and fight for our country our be sent back home, in my town we have many of these people and you never know who you can or cant trust its just scary to think about it
How bout underground? That way they’d be both plane proof AND we could have a park.
Besides, it’d look really cool.
ooh!! I’m with Malcom on this one… Underground bunkers for everyone. [img]images/smiles/converted/biggrin.gif[/img]
With hyper-tubes connecting between them all that can zip you across the country is 2.63 seconds. Not to mention we’ll finally be rid of that evil, evil sun… [img]images/smiles/converted/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/converted/tongue.gif[/img]
you guys do know the have a mall underground the wtc, now, and its probably still in tact if the first to floors are, so and underground thing would be cool
Actually, this reminds me of one of my friends who was going to try out the brand new U of I at Springfield. She said the entire school consisted of three buildings connected by tunnels, you could go an entire day without once stepping outside! Kinda like those old popular science magazines showing future colonies on Venus. This actually was a prime consideration in her not going there.
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