Comments on: 9/11 + 6

By: sandra carney

sandra carney — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:26:38 +0000

they are gorgeous but I feel they are asking for trouble again. it will be an awesome sight.

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:23:55 +0000

The designs aren't ugly or hideous..They belong elsewhere far away from that sacred site. People say the twin towers don't deserve to be rebuilt because they have no artistic architecture. Shame on them for saying that. At least the twin towers exterior had beauty with the gothic style bars on the windows. These designs are just boring glass tanks.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:41:21 +0000

Please just build the towers back. I am from N.C. but I bet very little people in New York will even go see the Freedom Tower. I wanted to see the twin towers in person, and if they are not built back, I have no reason to ever visit New York City. I hope you take this into consideration because I know for a fact that I am not the only person that feels this way.

By: samuel

samuel — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:42:41 +0000

The new wtc is good and i like the new towers, but the twin towers were much better, great on the nyc skyline they should have been rebuilt as they were on 9/10/01, just turn the plaza into a memorial park.

By: Valentin Dyakonov

Valentin Dyakonov — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:17:06 +0000

I think Foster's design does contribute a great deal to the skyline, and seemingly in a good way. And yes, you've really nailed it in the last sentence. It's like calling McDonalds the Tree of Good and Evil.

By: ramon m. espinosa

ramon m. espinosa — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:23:49 +0000

I think that so much has been done by these concerned agencies of the U.S. government to bring to life what has been devastated by the evil. With that short time of conceptualization, design, detailings and actual construction, these groups undertaking their individual portions of bringing the Ground Zero to life again SHOULD be COMMENDED.Talking and just criticizing are two different and contradicting terms. It is easy to talk and not easy to work and undertake what is supposed to be a landmark of the U.S. I am not a U.S. citizen, but soon to be, but I commend all these who work and are still working hard to bring back the true image of New York City.

By: Dessinateur

Dessinateur — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:04:13 +0000

Hi. I am french... I wouldn't say these buildings are ugly,but they are.. anonymous. And that way, tremendous.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:48:38 +0000

I agree with Kristin, Denise and others. Build a replica site, but fortified this time. A Patriot missile battery on the roof of both towers would help defend all of NYC? As to the aesthetics, the current plans look like a dysfunctional mash-up to me IMVHO.

By: Tim R Johnson

Tim R Johnson — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:29:58 +0000

The first flight of the Boeing 747, still the largest American built civilian aircraft and only second in size to the new Airbus 380, was on Feb. 9, 1969. So if the world trade center was designed in the 1970s to withstand airplane strikes, it should have been designed to withstand what hit it on 9/11/2001. Thus either the design was faulty, or it was insufficient due to an inadequate understanding of the severity of a real-life strike by a large airliner on one of the towers.
As for the new plans, I agree that they are inadequate. A better result would have been achieved by having one firm design all the buildings so that they could have been designed as a cohesive ensamble of buildings.

By: The Sister of a FF

The Sister of a FF — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:30:04 +0000

It's downright Scary! Anyone in their perfect mind can be called insane to want to work in a building built upon a gravesite. Honestly. The entire area should be made into a Memorial Park. Now that is ECO-FRIENDLY. I will protest these buildings until the day I die. We have enough commerce and enough business offices and enough places for people to live. How many people do you want to pack into New York anyway? Oh, one more question ~ Is it ethical to build ontop of a cemetery knowing people were killed there? I thought in our wonderful American Life that we Preserved History and Respected our Dead for dying for our Country? This should go down as the biggest outrage on American Soil and WE THE PEOPLE are against it. If this gets built then Shame on us we might as well open our doors to the enemy and invite them in for a Tea Party.
I hope you let this appear. I'm really sad for New York and I'm really sad that I lost my brother in law who was a FireFighter on Sept. 11. I miss him and I miss NY the way it used to be.