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Given all the turmoil at Ground Zero over its (re)development, Ricardo from the magic propaganda mill sent us this rendering where the World Trade Center site would become a bay. Naturally, given the infighting that is involved with anything Ground Zero, this rendering would probably cost about $3 billion, 'cause water, you know, is expensive. And if you were thinking that the Department of Transportation would have to figure out what to do with the West Side Highway, you're silly - by the time anything got done cars would be hovering cars, like in the Jetsons! But, still, imagine boats downtown - hello, aquacars!
And take a walk down memory lane: The nine finalists for the World Trade Center design.
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If you look REALLY closely, it looks like they have the Westside Highway running under the bay in a tunnel.
That is much better and more creative and inspired than the parking garage-like "memorial" the want to build.
That is beautiful. Will never happen, 'tho.. too much commercial real estate would be gone. Alas.
Would there be paddleboats?
That's pretty cool. I like how the WFC forms a kind of gateway. You can imagine the feeding frenzy for the new waterfront property though.
Funny as a joke. Dumb as an actual idea.
Symbolically, that would be horrible.
This is the best idea put forward yet because it covers up the view of the 'tub' we see now when the PATH train rolls in and out of the WTC station. It's a view I find totally distrubing and disgusting for it makes me feel like I've gone through a mass grave each and everytime I'm on the PATH train. I wish they'd put up a huge black curtain or something.
Build a bridge for the highway and fill the hole up with water!
It's still a tragedy that somehow Pataki was allowed to over-rule the design review process and choose Liebeskind's plan instead of the THINK team's latticework towers. That plan still needed some work, but it would have been much more fitting, something truly monumental. As it is, we're basically going to get some office buildings, including one really big one that *nobody* is going to want to work in.
this is simple and beautiful and nothing less than honorable. that is everything a memorial should be.
The PATH train freaks me out when I take it from New Jersey downtown. It is sort of odd taking a train to a destination that doesn't exist.
The current "memorial" plan has all the ambeance of an underground parking garage.
Gorgeous.
I like the idea, at least at a romantic level, of restoring marshes and other forms of wetlands and waterways to Manhattan. Many have been buried. But in this case some extra engineering will be needed. The entry is quite narrow. This would prevent tidal flushing of the new bay. A propellar pump or two might be erected, as is in operation at times in the Gowanus Canal.
Also, with that narrow entry, marine radio coordination would be mandatory, unless this area was restricted to canoes, kayaks, and rowboats. That would also make sense in terms of noise pollution and emissions.
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Oops, what happened to #7 WTC?