Ground Zero
Ground Zero
#0Ground Zero
Posted: 6/24/05 at 4:36pm
Went to Ground Zero after class today. I was glad to be able to finally pay my respects to the heros of 911.
Can't quite decide for sure what I would like to be built there.
What are your thoughts?
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brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#1re: Ground Zero
Posted: 6/24/05 at 4:53pmGlebb - Like the Freedom Tower design. It seems to reach up and point to the sky.
brdlwyr
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#2re: Ground Zero
Posted: 6/24/05 at 4:53pmGlebb - I like the Freedom Tower design. It seems to reach up and point to the sky.
#3re: Ground Zero
Posted: 6/24/05 at 5:07pmI'd prefer a garden or something equally healing, but I understand that the land is worth too much not to put up another skyscraper.
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justthefacts2
Broadway Star Joined: 4/24/05
#4re: Ground Zero
Posted: 6/25/05 at 12:30amI don't want anything there. I want the World Trade Center back. Sorry, I know this isn't helpful.
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#5re: Ground Zero
Posted: 6/25/05 at 6:26amAlso would like to see a park there. Economic realities will not see this dream come to reality. Updated On: 6/25/05 at 06:26 AM
#6re: Ground Zero
Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:06pmI don't like the new design, it's stark, and not attractive, to me anyway. I agree with a park, but as said before, it's ain't going to happen......
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#7re: Ground Zero
Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:07pmA park would be nice. As for the design, haven't seen it yet...
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#8re: Ground Zero
Posted: 6/25/05 at 8:18pmsally, it looks like a large giant glass finger......I hate it
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#9re: Ground Zero
Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:11pm
"I’d use the original blueprints and design the “new” Trade Center exactly as it had been. But I’d insist that one of the towers be exactly 229 feet, four inches shorter than the other. It’s an uncomplicated gimmick to guarantee remembrance. Because, as long as these new towers would stand, someone unaware would ask, “why is one of them shorter than the other?” Whereupon an old-timer could explain, solemnly, that the difference between the heights of the towers is intentional - it’s exactly 2,752 inches.
One inch for each of the victims.
It’s all the memorial we really need."
This is the best proposal I've seen. It's from Keith Olberman's blog. I'll post the link to the whole thing. The freedom tower is so ugly. I'd also put the globe statue that's was moved to Battery Park back in the courtyard.
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etoile
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/03
#10re: Ground Zero
Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:55pmAm I the only who thinks that no matter what type of structure is built it automatically becomes another target?
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Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/04
#11re: Ground Zero
Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:39pm
I'm with Trump on this one.
Rebuild the Twin Towers, only taller.
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