Should the Twin Towers have been rebuilt?

[Child_Of_God]

If the US wanted them, they would have never demolished them.

Fair point.

 

[Child_Of_God]

I actually was thinking this the other day. The new WTC doesnt have the same "it" factor. Its indistinguishable from other skyscrapers. There was nothing like coming back from a long road trip and seeing the twin towers from the Verrazzano.

But I guess I understand that they couldn't be built back like nothing happened.

One WTC honestly looks like any skyscraper you would see in China. The Twin Towers were more unique imo.

 

[Child_Of_God]

I passed by the memorial for the first time just because I was down there shyt was funny seeing tourists taking pics smiling where 3000 people died

shyt is lowkey disrespectful as fukk.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

Young Mohammed Atta, no plane lessons

cocaine lessons

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

If the US wanted them, they would have never demolished them.

 

[King]

shyt is lowkey disrespectful as fukk.

Why do you have a photo and bio of the twin towers? Were you personally affected by 9/11?

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

up close they looked tough

the design was criticized at the time:

The World Trade Center's design aestheticsattracted criticism from the American Institute of Architects and other groups. Lewis Mumford, author of The City in History and other works on urban planning, criticized the project, describing it and other new skyscrapers as "just glass-and-metal filing cabinets". The Twin Towers were described as looking similar to "the boxes that the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building came in". Many disliked the twin towers' narrow office windows, which were only 18 inches (46 cm) wide and framed by pillars that restricted views on each side to narrow slots. Activist and sociologist Jane Jacobs argued the waterfront should be kept open for New Yorkers to enjoy.

Some critics regarded the trade center's "superblock", replacing a more traditional, dense neighborhood, as an inhospitable environment that disrupted the complicated traffic network typical of Manhattan. For example, in his book The Pentagon of Power, Lewis Mumford denounced the center as an "example of the purposeless giantism and technological exhibitionism that are now eviscerating the living tissue of every great city".

 

[Be Strong Blackman]

I had never heard of the towers before 9/11

 

[Balistik10290]

Young Mohammed Atta, no plane lessons

And I ain't mad, that the Towers fell
I'm mad the coke price went up, and this crack won't sell.

 

[Everything Zen]

the more brutalist design of the og towers fit the vibe of the city alot better

 

[Child_Of_God]

Why do you have a photo and bio of the twin towers? Were you personally affected by 9/11?

Nope. The Twin Towers are my favorite landmarks.

 

[ISO]

Why do you have a photo and bio of the twin towers? Were you personally affected by 9/11?

Architecture stans

 

[Money Be Green]

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

 

[Child_Of_God]

I had never heard of the towers before 9/11

You never seen them in movies and shows before 9/11?