New Proposed Design for the WTC

There are a dozen or so competing firms & designs over the new structure, but this is the first to go public.  Pretty damn cool, but could use a lot of exterior work.

http://www.wtc2002.com/start.lasso

If this one will be built America will have the tallest building in the world again.  That is if you counted the Petronas Towers in Malaysia.  The Sears Tower\'s highest floor is 200 feet above Petrona\'s highest floor, but they add all this structuring on top so it\'s technically the tallest building.  Kinda shifty is you ask me.

Cool security snippet from the 1st website:

Our Cyber City will have a State of the Art External Security System which at this stage evolves around "Sound Waves" which has the capacity at a specific frequency to repel flying objects up to a five mile circumference. We will seek support from the political system to bring about an edict that a "Five Mile No Fly Zone" area is put into effect around the island of Manhattan.

Hehe awesome.  Sounds like a technology that would be in MGS3.

So, they are trying to tell me that they can repel a 10 000 tonne Boeing 747 thats travelling in execess of 400 miles pre hour?

Sounds really dodgy.

Its ugly as hell too.

Damn that looks tight. Very futuristic looking. They are adding a lot of security to it too. The building can withstand an attack from an object five mile in circumference. Wow.

It really has the \'just look at me" feel to it, it looks bulky and ugly as hell

I honestly think its asking for trouble being that tall. I mean, its taller then the first ones.

Sure, I am all for "Show the terrorists that you can\'t stop us" attitude, but its stupid to create something ten times bigger just for pride. What if more people perish?

They should have just built a memorial.... Although this looks tight, (Reminds me of the DataDyne building from Perfect Dark for some reason), I dunno, who wants to work in WTC2?

Originally posted by \\/apor Snake
They should have just built a memorial.... Although this looks tight, (Reminds me of the DataDyne building from Perfect Dark for some reason), I dunno, who wants to work in WTC2?

the land there is worth alot, its on manhattan island

who wants to work in wtc2?  alot of people

That building is friggin huge!

It\'s not as impressive as the twin towers because they just jut straight up, but that would be the most massive thing.  I\'d want to go just to look at it.

An airliner could crash it and explode and I\'d bet hardly any of that building would be damaged.  It\'s too huge.

-Eik

Originally posted by Clowd


the land there is worth alot, its on manhattan island

who wants to work in wtc2?  alot of people

But the fact of the matter is.... It\'s A BURIAL SITE. Thousands of people died there, and then you just plop another huge building on top of that? It\'s like sacred grounds man, and your talking about the value of the land?

Speaking of, anyone remember Poltergeist?

Originally posted by \\/apor Snake
Reminds me of the DataDyne building from Perfect Dark for some reason

Ahh, that game still rules Only the l33t (like me, you know) can beat it on Perfect Agent. Rah.

And I agree with you 100% on how it should be a burail site. Another building that\'s just as tall as the 1st could have the same results...we wouldn\'t want that. Of course, nothing is going to stop a 10 ton 747 Boeing Jetliner chalk full of fuel, what would? We just have to have better precautions at airlines, of course.

Build a memorial, a building has no point. Hell, build a baseball field there for all I care, just no new building that exceeds the limit of the sky again.

See Yuz.

Yes, that\'s right, build a memorial.  Down with progression.  Who needs that when we have a memorial?  I suppose we should tell all the people in Europe to move out of their homes and live someplace else so we can build a big memorial there since far more men, women, and children died there then in the WTC. :rolleyes:

People died, lives were lost, we as humans owe it to ourselves to learn from out mistakes and move on.  You want a memorial, why not have both then?  This building offers just that, progression and a way to remember the past.  Why is that a bad idea again?

Our Cyber City will have a State of the Art External Security System which at this stage evolves around "Sound Waves" which has the capacity at a specific frequency to repel flying objects up to a five mile circumference. We will seek support from the political system to bring about an edict that a "Five Mile No Fly Zone" area is put into effect around the island of Manhattan.

What about birds?

Originally posted by serrano007


What about birds?

Hahahaha, LAMO.

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You have to build it.  Or at least something.  THey need office space down there.  That\'s why the WTC were so big to begin with.  These things are kind of strange looking, but I could difinitely get use to them.  The stats are pretty sweet.I\'m all for building bigger.  You can\'t puss out because of terrorists.  What if we build something not so high?  Well, you get less office space which is needed and big deal, they can just hit the empire state building, or the sears tower, etc...

:eek:

That ... thing ... is damn fugly. It looks like something out of a 1950\'s no-budget sci-fi movie.