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    Michel D   Architectonics

    7.3.03 -  12:13

     
    The New WTC
    The new design has been chosen for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center. The design is more structurally sound than the old design, yet it will be built in the same footprints of the old towers. The structure is designed to "twist" around the center in the event of a problem, regardless whether the force comes from the bottom or the top. But perhaps the most beatiful part of the design is the use of the sun as a memorial. "A 'wedge of light' created by precise positioning of the future buildings that are to surround Ground Zero, so that every year on Sept. 11 a shaft of unshadowed sunlight will fall onto a public square from 8:46 a.m. ET (when the first plane crashed into the North Tower) to 10:28 a.m. ET (when it collapsed, after South Tower went down.)"


    Gorgeous and exquisite...

    Footnote 1: I find it funny that the reconstruction of the towers is spearheaded by architect Daniel Libeskind... a Deconstructivist...

    (and all of the erudites nod bemusedly)
     

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