The New World Trade Center in New York
by Paulo Miranda on September 11th, 2009, 22 CommentsThe New York City has been portrayed in many movies, books, paintings and games, so it has a special value in many hearts around the world. When I saw the collapse of the World Trade Center Complex eight years ago, it was really hard to believe. I dreamed to go there someday. As well as the towers, a lot of dreams collapsed that day.
Just as the brave firefighters who worked there, many amazing architects, engineers, workers have been working hard to make these dreams come back to life again. The new World Trade Center is already being built. So I collected astonishing illustrations of this new development.
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September 12th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Hi Paulo. The new design is beautiful. If it had been up to me, the original towers would have been re-built. Down to the last brick.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:24 am
September 11: still a tough date that brings up so many emotions. These illustrations make us look forward. Thanks for sharing.
September 12th, 2009 at 1:49 am
WOW! Beautiful design, still sad to know the old ones are gone, seems like yesterday. Hopefully the future will be safer and man will stop the war against each other.
September 12th, 2009 at 4:16 am
The new design looks beautiful but after speaking with a group survivors during my holiday in Mexico 2004 so I decide to paint the new skyline from NY but I was never been before in NY.
I finished this project it was one year later 2005.
A view years later I was the First Dutch Registered Artist of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, New York.
September 12th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Stunning design and a great tribute. I still can’t believe the loss and devastation… Thanks for sharing this with us.
September 13th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
excellent design!!
September 14th, 2009 at 12:03 am
@joe, the original towers were great. They could rebuild it, but I think it is more fair to build the Memorial.
@creativezazz and @loswl, it was a very sad moment. I hope that human beings will use the wonderful power of brain to build good things not destroy.
@frank Nice! I have never been there too. But NY has a place in the imagination of people all over the world.
@inMotionGraphics and @Dinesan Thanks a lot.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
It breaths unity, and that’s the thing they should have, although I’m not really fond of skyscrapers, this is a very good design. 9
September 14th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Hi Dounia, Thanks for commenting!
September 17th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
I think the old design had an iconic quality. You saw it once and you immediately recognized it when seeing it again. It was sticking out of the mass of skyscrapers.
a) by design (simply square),
b) by size (look at this http://tinyurl.com/lqoqlp) and
c) the fact that there were actually two of the same buildings.
The new design lacks this quality. They simply copy design features we all have seen before. Be it in Chcago, Hongkong and even New York etc. I think the new solution for this space should have been more daring, more forward thinking. Just do a Google image search on “modern architecture China” to see what it could have been.
September 18th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Hi Roberto,
I agree with you. It could be more innovative. They get mixed in the skyline like any other building. It could be like Burj Dubai, it is such a beautiful icon for the city of Dubai.
September 20th, 2009 at 6:27 am
It really doesn’t matter what they will or are building, comess down to it they will do as they please. But if only my opinion the original towers should havee been re-built. Let’s show them nothings going to bring us down, AND the skyline was so much prettier & unique.
These buildings look nice, but much futuristic and changes whole skyline.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Thanks for the comment, Alejandra.
The old skyline will be forever in our minds.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
This new design looks good, but They will never replace the unique, perfectly square design of the old ones.
As somebody else said, the old new york skyline was immediately recognisable; the twin towers should have been re-built.
October 11th, 2009 at 2:05 am
Emmet,
I was a big fan of the old WTC too, it would be awesome if they rebuild it, they could use the new tower design, but they would build twins towers again.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
October 21st, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I think that they should rebuild the towers. I heard a lot of New Yorkers hated the new design. The former governor of new york and silverman, the guy who owns the land are up to something. I think there’s a reason behind them not building the twin towers. not rebuilding the towers is showing osama that he won and that we are scared!
October 24th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
The new design is great. But why is it taking so long????
Can’t someone get all these guys in a room and commit to finish in the next 2-3 years instead of 9 or more years?
Perhaps scale back just a bit, hold off on one of the towers, and get moving!!!
October 25th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Hi Rick,
I also can’t understand why it takes so long time. The Burj Dubai tower is almost done in Dubai. It took just five years to build it.
Empire State was built in just one year.
October 25th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Hi Jackie,
If they rebuild them, it would be awesome too. They could change the cladding to a shiny glass.
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