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OT: WTC design

NYC had the good sense to do two things. First was to not try to rebuild an "identical" copy of of the Twin Towers; they would've never been anything like identical due to all the updates that were non-negotiable with respect to 30 years of changes in building standards and practices, and lessons learned with respect to previous tower's collapse.

Never could've looked even close to the same at reasonable cost, and given the committee of hacks that were most enamored of the idea (including Donald Trump) it would've with high probability come out looking like a cheap-ass Chinese theme park knock-off.

The second was to reject all the competing designs to the one that was built, I mean look at these piles of shit:

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bitrex
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That's typical of architectural design competitions. I'm sure some lunatic submitted an upside-down tower too.

What they have now is a major bird hazard. NYC is essentially a former wetlands and no one told the migrating birds who've been using the same flyway for the past 50 million years. Somehow they get trapped in the lights at night and end up disoriented flying in circles until they drop from exhaustion. There are full time bird counters there now. And when they see too many birds trapped in the lights, they shut the lights off.

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Fred Bloggs

Yeah but these were the _finalists_! Even SOM's original proposal "Ensemble Piece" was pretty bad. "Mutating Views" looks physically impossible to build. And the one that looks sort of like standing pieces of the facade of the original towers was just rock-smoking.

"Sky Park" with triple-towers was generously the least objectionable.

Between structures, wind turbines, and feral cats, how do birds even still exist...

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bitrex

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