On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:34:27 -0800, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote:


"Tex Houston" wrote in message
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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But your point is valid. The Word Trade Center was collapsed more than
two years ago, and they're still arguing about the design of its
replacement. Does anybody seriously expect to enter that building on
the 5th anniversay of 9/11? By contrast, the Empire State Building
went from first turn of the shovel to first public occupancy in about
one year.
all the best -- Dan Ford


The thing to have done for the World Trade Center reconstruction would
have
been to build it exactly as it was before. Just the sort of 'in your
face'
gesture that would have made a point to terrorists that the USA may bend
but
not break.

The port authority wanted to tear down the WTC, "as it was before".


Never mind that the WTC towers were, well...ugly.

Most people forget that; They were not well-liked by many in NYC
during their lives, and had all the architectural merit of Stalinist
apartment blocks.