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I was trying to think how you could make a building completely safe from any sort of attack, as these designers so very optimistically claim to have done. After rejecting several ideas which involved resolving long-standing socio-economic, ethnic and religious conflicts as being too implausible, I realized that there isn't really a good way to do this. Even NORAD isn't completely invulnerable and it has the advantage of wearing the Rocky Mountains as a hat.
I mean some options could include: moving it around to a random location every twenty minutes or so; constructing it out of solid titanium and gold (I mean solid: such that no one could ever enter); constructing it and then kill or horrendously injure and then sterilize everyone everywhere so that they (or their offspring) would never be capable or willing to make the building a target of their hatred; usw.
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The design team found a neat little craft and traveled to the 25th century....
There they pretended to be from the future, posing as historians, and acquired various bits of technology and designs....
nah, sounds to unrealistic.....
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Wow, a Flash site that won't load on my computer. Without being able to actually see it, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that this website has almost as much to do with the people who will actually make the decisions on what to do with the site as I do.
Sheesh, why not just go all the way: when danger is detected, the buildings turn into Voltron. That way we're protected from radical Islamic terrorists and Prince Lotor.
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actually, seeing as two tall building and several of the smaller WTC buildings were destroyed, i would propose that they build five towers with an equal office space lost in the originals.. basically make the two towers shorter and make the other buildings taller to compensate, and have five or six buildings of equal height there
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The majority of their silly proposal building is glass. What better replacement than one that would send shards of glass raining down on everyone if attacked.
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: It looks like something out of SimCity. Something ugly.
Yeah, that was my first thought as well... it kinda resembles one of those weird arcology contraptions.
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quote:Originally posted by Ace: Wraith, just so you know, the original architect of the WTC, Minoru Yamasaki, died of cancer Feb. 7, 1986 at age 73.
*ahem* Ah. right. Um... must have been someone on his design team. Or something.
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Anyway, I don't understand why everyone seems to blame the buildings as "unable to prevent/stop/withstand a terrorist attack." The only way to stop future attacks is to resolve the political problems and stop the terrorist operations where they begin: at the airports.
I don't know about making the surrounding buildings taller and lowering the two towers in a possible reconstruction. A majority of Manhattan looks pretty congested with buildings, and any design like this would just further create an "urban jungle." A neat feature of the original WTC was the plaza. Unlike other famous skyscrapers like the Empire State Building or Chrysler Building, the two towers were not directly surrounded by streets. People walked to the towers from an open plaza complete with benches and sculptures, thus creating a "warmer" and more peaceful feeling to the buildings' extreme heights.
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I hate this building design. I could care less if it was on Ground Zero since I would not live in a building that looked like what I do when I stack my soda cans.
If you really want to rebuild the buildings you could do the following:
1. Build a singlular tower, same height as the Twin Towrs but twice as large (Twin towers took up a acre each, this would take up lets say 4 acres.) It would look fat but it would make up for office space, have more space for more heavy structural supports, so a singular plane does not slice through the entire tower which is what happened on 9-11. So if did get attacked, somehow, the other structural supports would take the stress from the damaged structural supports. This is my idea after my Advanced Design Seminar decided to design what we wanted to put there to replace the WTC.
2. Rebuild the Twin Towers to look basically the same, however using higher grade materials, and heavy reinforced structural beams. Maybe even armor it as well.
3. Or go the way of the American and rebuild the Twin Towers but add a larger one in the middle.
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