New WTC

[Phreakmeister]

Recently, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) has unveiled the 7 designs that will "compete" for the new World Trade Center, which will come in place of the Twin Towers, which collapsed after terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001.

Which of these designs would you prefer to become the new World Trade Center? Or do you prefer any design but these? Or don't you want the WTC to be rebuilt at all?

(The designs are below, the poll options are in similar order. The names in the poll options and the names above the pictures of the designs are the names of the architects)

Foster and Partners
http://felixsalmon.com/wtc/Fosters-Battery-Park-view-1.jpg

Peterson/Littenberg
http://felixsalmon.com/wtc/Peterson.jpg

SOM/SANAA
http://felixsalmon.com/wtc/SOM-brooklyn-bridge-view-1.jpg

Daniel Libeskind
http://www.boston-metro.com/dbart/WTC-studioDan_225W.gif

THINK Design
http://felixsalmon.com/wtc/Think-GreatRoom-view-2.jpg

United Architects
http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2002-12/5924623.jpg

Meier & Partners, Eisenman, Siegel & Assoc., Holl
http://felixsalmon.com/wtc/Meier-skyline-view-1.jpg

http://www.boston-metro.com/dbart/WTC_Meier_300W.gif

[Phreakmeister]

Gaudi design proposed for WTC (http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/americas/2687565.stm)

Architectural plans by the late Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi are to be submitted to an international memorial competition for redesigns of New York's former World Trade Center site.
The design's backers say a memorial could be included
Gaudi's 95-year-old plans, which were originally designs for a futuristic hotel about the same size as the Empire State building, will be entered into the competition this spring by a group of art historians, architects and enthusiasts of his work.
It has been said that the plans may well have been intended for the original site of the World Trade Center, although this cannot be verified.
Some say that the designs may solve the dispute between developers and relatives of those who died in the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001.

'Amazing'

Gaudi, born in 1852 and revered as one of Spain's most noted architects, is known for his inventive, flamboyant architecture which changed the face of Barcelona in the early 1900s. He died in 1926 after a street-car accident.
His design shows a curved cluster of steel and concrete towers at varying heights surrounding a central tower that would stand 1,048 feet (319 metres) tall. Central to the design is a cathedral-style space about 400 feet (120 metres) high which originally would have honoured all the US presidents. However, architects behind the submission have suggested that this space could instead be reserved for a memorial to those who died in the attacks.
Some New Yorkers have expressed approval of the drawings.
" [They are] absolutely amazing," said Jessica Pingatore. "I think this city is beautiful and unique as it is, and with that it would just bring a new spirit."

'Historical project'

Nine proposed plans from seven architectural groups for the future of the site have already been put to the people of New York, however response was considerably muted. Many expressed dismay that the designs - from notable architects such as Norman Foster and Richard Meier - did not adequately commemorate the dead, while others expressed concern for safety at the immense height of some proposals. Other, earlier, designs were dismissed for being unimaginative.
The rebuilding of the World Trade Center has polarised the city. Some say that no development is appropriate as the area is a mass grave, while others advocate building an even taller tower as an act of defiance against terrorism.
US architect Paul Laffoley, who is spearheading the effort to have Gaudi's plans re-examined, said that using such aged plans would resolve the tension between the two groups. "It's 77 years since Gaudi died - a lot of the other proposals are literal ego trips," he told the Associated Press news agency. "But here is a way that everyone can be involved in a historical project from around the world."

The design is like this:

http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/media/images/38730000/jpg/_38730365_gaudiagainwtc150ap.jpg

[aclu14]

How gaudy.

[JPaulJ]

Personally, I hate all of those designs.