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Originally posted by tonypazzo
as a 4th generation new yorker who watched this horrible day unfold from his street corner... it's a disgrace. a pure disgrace
The Freedom Tower is out. One World Trade Center is in.
The Port Authority, the agency that owns the building at Ground Zero, said Thursday that the signature skyscraper replacing the Twin Towers destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, will be more commonly known as One World Trade Center.
On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells.
Originally posted by depmode101
In essence im still waiting for something to be put there, any sort of building, any sort of memorial wall, but i dont understand why its still rubble.
Originally posted by Insolubrious
Why bother re-enforcing, no one is going to want to bother hitting that piece of architectural cop out. They need to re-enforce the Sears tower and Empire States building before planes fly into them, which of course leads to the inevitable building collapse/structural failure/demolition.
[edit on 15-7-2010 by Insolubrious]
Originally posted by Insolubrious
All they need to do is make the building out of the same materials used to make flight 175, since the plane was clearly stronger than the original WTC steel facade. The result would be a much more economical solution with a thinner outer skin, allowing for an extra 10,000 square feet of office space. Who needs structual steel when the fuselage of a passenger plane is much stronger. Well at least according to OCT.