From all the new WTC designs being considered by the LMDC, I was surprised to find one that I actually liked.
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I spend most of my off-hours working (in Ottawa, Canada) to promote underground arts and media, and trying to keep independent music from being smothered by an anachronism popularly known as ‘the industry’. I DJ weekly, promote concerts/festivals regularly, make beep-beep noises in an industrial-metal band, and release CC-licensed albums for my industrial-slash-experimental-electronic project Ad·ver·sary, which sounds something like robots fucking to My Bloody Valentine.
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I like that one as well…
… and yeah i was kinda surprised, too. :)
Reminds me of the show “Earth: The final Conflict”
that looks like a plane in the middle , seriously , between the 2 and sort of behind both towers . umm was that on purpose or am Ijust hallucinating . perhaps these are actually plane proof cages to put the new buildings inside of ??
(laughing my ass off so hard)
just leave it alone already….jeezus. they were ugly then they are ugly now…what a way to taint a ontherwise kinda nice skyline…aside from the death and horror and the whole disaster thing, they did the world an architectual favour by getting rid of them…enough with the “my phallus is bigger and shiner than your phallus” bullshit in architecture….
is this for real? it looks a little too War Of the Worlds for my taste.
true, they were mad ugly from the outside. and i agree with the architectural phallus envy.
but when you have your high school prom at the top of tower 1 three months before 9/11… it has a certain indefinable beauty.
they should use one of the other ideas, like the park one.
ALIEN BUILDINGS
HOW COOL IS THAT
that’s exactly what i was thinking, about the thing looking like a plane and all.
hmmmm coincidence I think not!??!?!
maybe it’s to symbolize the original WTO, reduced to cinders by *gasp!* a plane!
*double gasp* two planes!
so where’s the second???
following close behind they have to get budget approval for another building though so they can put the 2nd plane on it pointing towards the WTC