The hope of America lies not in suburban sprawl, but in building tall. Let’s reach to the skies for inspiration. Innovative engineers stand ready to answer any challenge. Give us the chance and we’ll give greatness. Rebuild the Twin Towers taller!
The WTC Memorial looks like one designed by Bin-Laden, not by an American. Two holes in lieu of two majestic towers are exactly what he wished.
The entire 16-acre site should be developed above ground into a true 9/11 Memorial with the Twin Towers and their plaza as its centerpiece, and below ground into a 9/11 Museum and Mausoleums holding the unidentified remains.
A beautiful park with benches shaded by trees around pools of water reflecting the names of those who perished should cover the entire site at the base of new Memorial Twin Towers risen from their ashes in the memory of those who perished inside, and a new Memorial Austin Tobin Plaza built in the memory of those who jumped from the inferno above.
Every little corner of the towers and every square inch of the plaza are full of memories belonging not only to the loved ones, but to our nation’s history as well. This is the site of an event that changed the course of history. If we can rebuild the spaces where 3000 innocent Americans spent their last moments of their life, we definitely should.
Moreover, prior to September 11, the towers were the signatures of Manhattan’s skyline for over 30 years, complementing the statue of Liberty, standing tall by it as the proof of prosperity in a free society. We must rebuild the towers, not one, not five, but two, with their magical power of reflecting the ever changing sky, from sunrise to sunset.
Our country’s approach to the WTC site is fundamental flawed. The terrorists only objective is to instill terror in the living hopeing to create a shift in public policy. By leaving two gigantic voids in lower Manhattan we have played directly into the terrorist hands. Posters of “Reflecting Absence” will hang in every al-Qaeda cave as a monument to their success. In defiance of the terrorists we should create a Memorial that celebrates the lives of those lost instead of morn. Bottom line – I believe those we lost on September 11th are looking down on us hoping we stand tall and build something to inspire fellow New Yorkers and the World.
I am proud to become a small part of your enormous endeavor. Though I may disagree with the design concepts, I agree that we must rebuild. May God enable us to create an awe inspiring tribute to the victims and their loved ones!!!
This was my first thought after the towers fell. We need to rebuild them, taller and stronger than they were before. Nothing will show our resolve more clearly, than to reconstruct what was taken from us on that day, as best we can.
No other construction or memorial on the ‘ground zero’ site will ever equal the statement that restoring the twin towers will make.
Replace what was taken away. To those who believe rebuilding would only invite a third attack, I respectfully insist that the issue is not the design of the towers but our resolve to rid the planet of the menace of Islamist extremism. To aknowledge such fear is to understand that there is still much work to be done before we’re truly free. Anything short of rebuilding smacks of concession to the enemy and may well prove to be no more than a monument to caving into fear.
If the walls inside the Empire State Building are marble, and the monuments and memorials in D.C. have these kinds of memorials, then why can’t we incorporate the two?
By engraving their names, and rebuilding our towers, we are saying that we will continue to live our lives the way WE choose, and NOTHING they do can change that, and those lost will be immortalized, and will be a permanent part of the foundation.
By changing the design, we are admitting that they have an effect on us, that we fear them, and that they can control us.
I am a residential drafter. I love Historical Architecture and would love to see the towers built back as they were, in appearance. But, with better, more solid and safe construction.
Rebuild the Towers! Better, greener, & stronger. The Dresden Frauenkirche was rebuilt decades after its useless destruction near the end of WWII. Why do some Americans lack the resolve to rebuild the twin towers? Why not dedicate a floor in each new towers at the impact location as memorials to those we lost on 9/11. A living museum is what need,not a silly park or a new icon.
Why do our leaders lack the vision and understanding to do so ? We must rebuild the towers.
As an engineer and a former Marine I understand both the form and the substance of what the twin towers embodied; I also understand what our enemies were truly trying to destroy on 9-11. We owe those who were lost on 9-11, and we owe it to the cavemen who tried to destroy us, to rebuild the twin towers taller, stronger, bolder and more magnificent and defiant than ever.
2,974 people (not including the hijackers) died in New York on September 11. I think the height of the towers should be 2,974 feet tall!! Beating Burj Dubai @ 2,684ft by 290 feet. Symbolic for each AMERICAN fatality and being the biggest tower in the world.
Since the idea of a skyscraper first came from America, the U.S. should have the tallest one today. I want to see America have the first and second tallest.
I am a CAD Drafter in a small firm in Times Square and can’t agree more. Nothing than re-building the towers will let the world know that we are still one big strong country and that they will not chnage us. I say rebuild them right back and also as a New Yorker for the the last 22 years, which is my whole life, it is sadness to look over Manhattan and not see the towers. The towers were a symbol to us New Yorkers and it is not the same without them.
Absolutely Beautiful!
This is a national treasure and international icon!
Near these hollow grounds, build a community…
Taller, stronger, unified and more inspiring than the original WTC
Let the architects of tomorrow’s reach
Exceed their grasp
I believe that using 9/11 as an excuse to “renovate” ground zero is disgraceful. rebuilding the twin towers is far more noble than creating something different. If we build the freedom tower. THE TERRORISTS HAVE CHANGED THE SKYLINE!
I grew up in New York City for the first 14 years of my life, and I can always remember feeling a sense of completion with the Twin Towers being as part of my consciousness. With them now destroyed, there is only ONE answer, put them back! I happily join this cause, and truly hope to see the Twin Towers rise again. I’ve got my own 7’11” Twin Towers out of legos. I couldn’t help it, I missed them that much!
In the small country of Poland, it was the will of the people to rebuild Warsaw’s Royal Castle destroyed by WWII. Today it stands as a monument to people’s determination, when their culture and nationhood were threatened. A favorite observation regarding the castle’s reconstruction is that it is often considered to be a truthful copy, but “only” a copy of a historic building nonetheless. However, in two hundred years, that it is a copy will be insignificant, because it will be seen that Warsaw was only without its castle for about 35 years. Why not the same for the twin towers?
I firmly believe that the current design for the WTC site is deeply flawed in all respects: architectural, functional, aesthetic, and spiritual. The one silver lining of the devastating attack NYC suffered on September 11, 2001 was this: we were given the opportunity and the honor to build the 8th wonder of the world, something awe-inspiring, brilliant, and original.
Since demolishing the new One World Trade Center is inconceivable, I propose a compromise in building it a twin. We could then salvage the image of the original WTC without mimicking it exactly. It would even cost less to build a second Tower One in place of Towers 2, 3, and/or 4.
Ask yourselves? Do you want a generic office park? Or perhaps something more…
TTA Note: Demolishing the Freedom Tower is not inconceivable, just as a matter of fact — especially considering the affront to our system of government that it represents — but we are not suggesting that be done. It can be capped and would just become another skyline element — instead of rising to full height, where it would resemble the hundreds of obelisks that rise above the tombstones in cemeteries around New York. The Twin Freedom Tower idea has been persistently suggested, but there is no available space to put it where it would be a twinned structure.
I am directing a bold, visionary infrastructure project to resurrect the Twin Towers with a new objective: the World Tech Center. It can be built in Chicago, or just east of Hudson Yards in NYC. Its purpose is to be a hub for international STEM, hosting labs, workshops, offices, a library, and a central plaza with underground shopping mall, and with many other amenities. The twin towers rise 450 metres and features UHPC concrete cores, and A514 high strength structural steel. I’m making it the tallest building in the western hemisphere, where the North Tower antenna rises 1969 feet high (600.15 m).
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A RESTORATION PLAN FOR THE TOWERS
Rebuild the towers
Lets rebuild this thing today! The towers need to be rebuilt Bigger and Stronger. Say no to Terrorism.
The hope of America lies not in suburban sprawl, but in building tall. Let’s reach to the skies for inspiration. Innovative engineers stand ready to answer any challenge. Give us the chance and we’ll give greatness. Rebuild the Twin Towers taller!
The WTC Memorial looks like one designed by Bin-Laden, not by an American. Two holes in lieu of two majestic towers are exactly what he wished.
The entire 16-acre site should be developed above ground into a true 9/11 Memorial with the Twin Towers and their plaza as its centerpiece, and below ground into a 9/11 Museum and Mausoleums holding the unidentified remains.
A beautiful park with benches shaded by trees around pools of water reflecting the names of those who perished should cover the entire site at the base of new Memorial Twin Towers risen from their ashes in the memory of those who perished inside, and a new Memorial Austin Tobin Plaza built in the memory of those who jumped from the inferno above.
Every little corner of the towers and every square inch of the plaza are full of memories belonging not only to the loved ones, but to our nation’s history as well. This is the site of an event that changed the course of history. If we can rebuild the spaces where 3000 innocent Americans spent their last moments of their life, we definitely should.
Moreover, prior to September 11, the towers were the signatures of Manhattan’s skyline for over 30 years, complementing the statue of Liberty, standing tall by it as the proof of prosperity in a free society. We must rebuild the towers, not one, not five, but two, with their magical power of reflecting the ever changing sky, from sunrise to sunset.
Our country’s approach to the WTC site is fundamental flawed. The terrorists only objective is to instill terror in the living hopeing to create a shift in public policy. By leaving two gigantic voids in lower Manhattan we have played directly into the terrorist hands. Posters of “Reflecting Absence” will hang in every al-Qaeda cave as a monument to their success. In defiance of the terrorists we should create a Memorial that celebrates the lives of those lost instead of morn. Bottom line – I believe those we lost on September 11th are looking down on us hoping we stand tall and build something to inspire fellow New Yorkers and the World.
Rebuild the towers !!
Restore the skyline, erase this terrible deed. Get on with it…
New York skyline without twin towers is… a big nosense!!
I am proud to become a small part of your enormous endeavor. Though I may disagree with the design concepts, I agree that we must rebuild. May God enable us to create an awe inspiring tribute to the victims and their loved ones!!!
I miss the skyline, the symbol of this great city. I agree to reconstruction and a memorial anything less will be a shame. Bring it back.
This was my first thought after the towers fell. We need to rebuild them, taller and stronger than they were before. Nothing will show our resolve more clearly, than to reconstruct what was taken from us on that day, as best we can.
No other construction or memorial on the ‘ground zero’ site will ever equal the statement that restoring the twin towers will make.
Support rebuild
Replace what was taken away. To those who believe rebuilding would only invite a third attack, I respectfully insist that the issue is not the design of the towers but our resolve to rid the planet of the menace of Islamist extremism. To aknowledge such fear is to understand that there is still much work to be done before we’re truly free. Anything short of rebuilding smacks of concession to the enemy and may well prove to be no more than a monument to caving into fear.
I am one of the partners of Yamasaki Associates, the architect of the Twin Towers. We would love to see our building back on NY’s skyline.
If the walls inside the Empire State Building are marble, and the monuments and memorials in D.C. have these kinds of memorials, then why can’t we incorporate the two?
By engraving their names, and rebuilding our towers, we are saying that we will continue to live our lives the way WE choose, and NOTHING they do can change that, and those lost will be immortalized, and will be a permanent part of the foundation.
By changing the design, we are admitting that they have an effect on us, that we fear them, and that they can control us.
So why give them that power?
No other design could ever be (or has been to date) as inspired as the original. The two towers were meant for this site.
I am a residential drafter. I love Historical Architecture and would love to see the towers built back as they were, in appearance. But, with better, more solid and safe construction.
Rebuild the Towers! Better, greener, & stronger. The Dresden Frauenkirche was rebuilt decades after its useless destruction near the end of WWII. Why do some Americans lack the resolve to rebuild the twin towers? Why not dedicate a floor in each new towers at the impact location as memorials to those we lost on 9/11. A living museum is what need,not a silly park or a new icon.
Why do our leaders lack the vision and understanding to do so ? We must rebuild the towers.
As an engineer and a former Marine I understand both the form and the substance of what the twin towers embodied; I also understand what our enemies were truly trying to destroy on 9-11. We owe those who were lost on 9-11, and we owe it to the cavemen who tried to destroy us, to rebuild the twin towers taller, stronger, bolder and more magnificent and defiant than ever.
2,974 people (not including the hijackers) died in New York on September 11. I think the height of the towers should be 2,974 feet tall!! Beating Burj Dubai @ 2,684ft by 290 feet. Symbolic for each AMERICAN fatality and being the biggest tower in the world.
Since the idea of a skyscraper first came from America, the U.S. should have the tallest one today. I want to see America have the first and second tallest.
I am a CAD Drafter in a small firm in Times Square and can’t agree more. Nothing than re-building the towers will let the world know that we are still one big strong country and that they will not chnage us. I say rebuild them right back and also as a New Yorker for the the last 22 years, which is my whole life, it is sadness to look over Manhattan and not see the towers. The towers were a symbol to us New Yorkers and it is not the same without them.
Absolutely Beautiful!
This is a national treasure and international icon!
Near these hollow grounds, build a community…
Taller, stronger, unified and more inspiring than the original WTC
Let the architects of tomorrow’s reach
Exceed their grasp
I believe that using 9/11 as an excuse to “renovate” ground zero is disgraceful. rebuilding the twin towers is far more noble than creating something different. If we build the freedom tower. THE TERRORISTS HAVE CHANGED THE SKYLINE!
I grew up in New York City for the first 14 years of my life, and I can always remember feeling a sense of completion with the Twin Towers being as part of my consciousness. With them now destroyed, there is only ONE answer, put them back! I happily join this cause, and truly hope to see the Twin Towers rise again. I’ve got my own 7’11” Twin Towers out of legos. I couldn’t help it, I missed them that much!
The twin towers should be rebuilt exactly the same. Freedom Tower is a horrid design; which is not New York or American.
In the small country of Poland, it was the will of the people to rebuild Warsaw’s Royal Castle destroyed by WWII. Today it stands as a monument to people’s determination, when their culture and nationhood were threatened. A favorite observation regarding the castle’s reconstruction is that it is often considered to be a truthful copy, but “only” a copy of a historic building nonetheless. However, in two hundred years, that it is a copy will be insignificant, because it will be seen that Warsaw was only without its castle for about 35 years. Why not the same for the twin towers?
Dear all,
I firmly believe that the current design for the WTC site is deeply flawed in all respects: architectural, functional, aesthetic, and spiritual. The one silver lining of the devastating attack NYC suffered on September 11, 2001 was this: we were given the opportunity and the honor to build the 8th wonder of the world, something awe-inspiring, brilliant, and original.
Since demolishing the new One World Trade Center is inconceivable, I propose a compromise in building it a twin. We could then salvage the image of the original WTC without mimicking it exactly. It would even cost less to build a second Tower One in place of Towers 2, 3, and/or 4.
Ask yourselves? Do you want a generic office park? Or perhaps something more…
TTA Note: Demolishing the Freedom Tower is not inconceivable, just as a matter of fact — especially considering the affront to our system of government that it represents — but we are not suggesting that be done. It can be capped and would just become another skyline element — instead of rising to full height, where it would resemble the hundreds of obelisks that rise above the tombstones in cemeteries around New York. The Twin Freedom Tower idea has been persistently suggested, but there is no available space to put it where it would be a twinned structure.
I am directing a bold, visionary infrastructure project to resurrect the Twin Towers with a new objective: the World Tech Center. It can be built in Chicago, or just east of Hudson Yards in NYC. Its purpose is to be a hub for international STEM, hosting labs, workshops, offices, a library, and a central plaza with underground shopping mall, and with many other amenities. The twin towers rise 450 metres and features UHPC concrete cores, and A514 high strength structural steel. I’m making it the tallest building in the western hemisphere, where the North Tower antenna rises 1969 feet high (600.15 m).