Plans for Ground Zero unveiled

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Plans for Ground Zero unveiled

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Source: New York Times



Seven teams of architects from around the world unveiled new designs for the World Trade Center site yesterday, giving a remarkable civic tutorial on architecture and contemporary urban design aimed at mending the hole left in Lower Manhattan by the Sept. 11 attack.



The designs, the subject of secrecy and speculation since the teams began work 12 weeks ago, include a broad array of elements: quiet memorial gardens and scenic plazas in the sky, soaring towers of bare scaffolding and sprawling canopies of glass. Four include what would be the tallest building in the world, and all set aside an area for a memorial to the victims of 9/11....



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i think they should make the towers even bigger than they were before!! not just making it a memorial because then that would just be letting them screw even more things up! it should be buildings with lots of memorial stuff around! what do you all think??
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I dont think a taller building will be a good idea...

Who'll want to work in them anyways?
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are you sure.....?? cause u would have to be really sick and twisted to do something like that!
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thats so depressing, overall i hope whatever comes out of this whole memorial thing is good looking, i lost alot of friends to it, and they really deserve something nice
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Meow...4 times as many Americans die each year in car accidents as did in the Sept. 11 attacks. Meow.
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