One Wold Trade Center (and Neighbors), NYC, 2019.
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It's been difficult to separate the new World Trade Center building from that terrible day in 2001, but we now have the benefit of just enough time that we can begin to discuss the tower as a piece of architecture and as part of the skyline, on its own terms.
@mattblaze@federate.social I liked once Bronx resident's suggestion: rebuild them exactly as they were, except add one more floor. Then add 4 towers along each edge. 3 of the towers would be 2 stories tall, the 4th (second from the left) would be 10 stories tall.
I'll omit his suggestions for billboards on them.
@mattblaze@federate.social I didn’y live in NYC until after that horrific day. I visited NYC for 1st time in 1999 and even visited the Twin Towers.
I lived in NYC for 12 years, but as my associations with that day are not as raw as those who truly lived it, the building feels to me a representation of resilience.
As a runner living in WV/GV/Soho, I typically ran Hudson River Park, lower Manhattan, over Bridge & Brooklyn Bridge Park, & that building was like the North Star, almost always visible.