Rebuild the World Trade Center

Welcome to my Rebuild the World Trade Center Page

This page is my proposal as seen on the CNN web page, of what I think the World Trade Center Memorial should be like.

Here is a profile of my design. It consists of two towers, equal in cubic footage ot the original towers, but more stylized for the new millenium.

I felt a need to contribute to the design competition at CNN because I've been to the Big apple several times and been up on top of the twin towers. You can't understand the incredible view unless you've been up there. It's not like an airplane or helicopter tour of the city. It's a view like no other- anywhere.

WTC Memorial Elements

Now, New Yorkers are a proud, stubborn kind of folk. And I'm sure they'd see a rebuild of the towers like a declaration of this pride- "Knock us down- we'll get back up and by then you better be running!" one New Yorker once told me.

I thought the towers should be restored to some degree just like the originals. But a sense of "Let's move forward and on" should be introduced by stylizing the overall design.

But generations pass and history forgets- so I built into its base a group of museums to remind all who came there of the events of that day. Tragic, yes. But our history is full of tragedy. British tyranny. Civil War. Pearl Harbor. Septembre 11. And many, many more.

In every instance, flags were hoisted out windows and the declaration came and went, "We will never forget."

But we're the ones who need to remember- and teach it to our little ones, that once there stood two great towers, which were only part of a great collection of skyscrapers, and that those towers fell because someone didn't believe in what we always, to some degree- Freedom.

Here is the text I included in my proposal when I sent it to CNN:

"My design features a rebuild of the original towers. If I know New Yorkers, they want their towers back. I also believe New York City needs those towers -- whether out of defiance to terrorists everywhere, or because they've been such a part of the skyline for so long.

"The main buildings house industry and business offices as did the originals. At the foot of the towers, I have placed a circular cafeteria between the buildings in a park. The beautifully wooded grounds are surrounded by a tall building full of malls and shopping centers. In each corner [is] a museum with different themes: one for the police, fire, military and other personnel who have fought so bravely since the opening moments of this tragedy; another for cultural appreciation of the New York area, as well as the world (which New York represents so thoroughly); the third is dedicated to the Twin Towers -- then and now (a before-and-after gallery); and the fourth, a monument to those lost when the towers fell.

"Finally, the centerpiece of the whole grounds is a Fountain of Hope, serving as a reminder that, 'The Price of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.'"

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