Newly launched WTC website - off topic but Wow!

Posted because my daughter's boyfriend is responsible for the incredible new website.

Especially for my New Yorker friends. Images and renderings of the new World Trade Center.

WTC Rising http://www.wtcrising.com/

Looks really good.

The bulildings have a 90 degree difference in the way they face away from each other. Again perhaps this has something to do with thwarting another terrorist attack.

The buildings look ok.

Freedumb tower? Yes that appears something some dumb Republican would name it.

How about constitution towers to remind us how GW Bush has radically changed the constitution for the worst.

this was a few weeks ago >

I'm sure they'll have it up, and have rebuilt New Orleans too, sometime around the year 2050.

www.curbed.com, the NYC architecture and real estate blog.

Love the music too. Very New York.

Even though it's copied from one of my 3rd year student projects. :shrug: I'm going to freak if I find out one of my classmates "designed" it.

i hate it all.

i watched the REAL WTC go up and worked in the area for years. i hate these ugly new buildings more than words can say. they will ALWAYS be a festering scab in Lower Manhattan. "Freedom Tower" :puke: That name is an INSULT to those we lost and those who carry on.

THIS is what should have happened:

http://www.triroc.com/wtc/

THIS would have been an honor and a tribute to those we lost, and a balm to the hearts of New Yorkers everywhere.

back in architecture school the twin towers were often used as subjects of bad design. What they stand for now is forever in our hearts but the design was a sore on a beautiful skyline.

i had similar feelings watching them go up. and i used to make a point of collecting "old" NYC memorabilia which pictured the Empire State Building instead of the WTC.

but on a mid-90s trip home, flying into LGA on a beautiful morning, the pilot took a leisurely descent to give us a spectacular view of Lower Manhattan. i had to catch my breath at how beautiful they really were. on that trip i met a friend for lunch who worked at a Japanese bank in the WTC. i didn't know it would be the last time i would walk the plaza, pick up a mag at the newsstand on the shopping concourse (it was Vanity Fair with kd lang "shaving" Cindy Crawford), and have a cup of "cawfee" at one of the coffee shops inside.

i grew up in Bay Ridge and lived on Staten Island, and every time i see them gone, i think of Springsteen's "Empty Sky". it still hurts like a bastard. i still cannot forget the first time i came around that bend on the Belt Pkwy, coming in from JFK and going to my mom's house in Bay Ridge in 2002, and seeing them gone. i knew what i would see, but i still somehow could not really believe it till then.

those "space age crap"* affronts to New York and its people will offend me even more than the empty sky.

(* comment by O. Osbourne about microwave popcorn, which i now use for anything with hideous "ultra-modern" design)

You mean you aren't going to discuss receipt and bag checking at Circuit City?

Nice web site.

My son loves it.

the architecture on the other hand makes me want to vomit.

These buildings look out of place in New York.

What is it about architects these days? Does no one understand contextualism anymore???

Hmm David Childs/Skidmore Owings and Merrill .... SOM...

What is it they had a habit of saying? that they would build glass boxes until they made one they liked?

I prefer the original Libeskind plan much better. This one seems a tribute to thoughtless corporatocracy, and nothing meaningful.