A friend works for the Port Authority, with several colleagues who were in the buildings on 9/11. Though the PA is expected to be a big tenant of the building, there are a E36 M3-ton of people who will retire/quit before taking an office in the new tower...
PHeller wrote: Anyone know why they built two (2) world trade centers instead of just one?
they got a volume discount on the materials?
PHeller wrote: Anyone know why they built two (2) world trade centers instead of just one?
The original World Trade Center was a complex of seven buildings, six office buildings and a hotel, the Twin Towers being WTC buikdings 1 and 2. According to Wiki the archetect, Yamasaki was asked, "Why two 110-story buildings? Why not one 220-story building?" His response was: "I didn't want to lose the human scale."[66] [66]
novaderrik wrote:Wally wrote: In reply to mad_machine: They were two ugly buildingsi don't think we're allowed to say that??? i said that once on another board and everyone jumped all over me and accused me of being an Al Queda sympathizer.. no joke.. but yeah, this building looks much better than the old ones did..
I'm not saying they should have been blown up, just that they weren't very attractive.
You'll need to log in to post.
