I like the crystal-looking one, gives a sense of unity and togetherness. Foster and Partners’ glass Twins aren’t half bad either, in fact I prefer them over OWTC, as well as Daniel Liebskind’s original vision for the Ground Zero redesign.
Yeah, we had also very weird propositions for Notre-Dame de Paris. So in the end they went with rebuilding identical. Creativity is nice but not if you're going to ruin a landmark and skyline.
@@Kerrogann You did?! I'm gonna have to check those out. I couldn't imagine anything other than a replica of Notre-Dame being in that spot! That disaster stills shocks me, couldn't believe watching that place burn live on the news- it's so iconic.
People like to pretend like they're on another level than you, and design something that no one understands like the perception of beauty with magically change in the starchitects favor.
@@eletricalplugandoutlet1540 As opposed to what? Tentacles or buildings that curve every 2 floors? The art of architecture is transforming the simplist things. One trick is adding blocks on top of another.
I think some architects forgot that it was a real city that had to live with their atrocious designs. What was Morris Adjmi even smoking when he came up with the star sprangled tower of doom?
Ive heard that at the time of the twin towers being built New Yorkers actually really hated them and how they looked. Not entirely sure why, I’ve never lived in a city with skyscrapers like this but I’m sure they had their reasons. I will say at least the original actually looked like a building rather than a bunch of ugly colored noodles 😵
@@Hucklefart_Dinklejartinthe reason was how box shaped and gray it was, they were used to geometric and shapes buildings but the WTC were just rectangles, tall and grey rectangles
@@Hucklefart_Dinklejartinthe original WTC was, to be fair, hideous. They were just gigantic grey boxes with no attempt at design whatsoever. New York has always been associated with art deco architecture with decorative elements, they clashed with the image of the entire city. Aa for Adjmi's design, those are flags hanging over an empty building frame. His proposal was just a memorial, not a usable building.
I think they're the worst design out of all of them tbh. It looks even more precarious than the original towers, it's like we're asking for them to do another attack.
The absolutely brilliant Raimund Abraham. The lines through the structure are cut so that the sun only shines through them at significant times corresponding with when the planes hit and the towers collapsed. Stonehenge for a national tragedy on a monolithic scale.
What one also got me wondering as well. And when I read your comments I also seemed to sway to that design choice a bit more. It seems more respectful that way too.
@@OreoMiilkShakezmaybe not. The space around the memorial is already unused, so putting a building around the footprint would actually make it more useable
The orb's bouncing around, Mary Jane or any other relative is in it. Spiderman pulls like the train like scene, or maybe have other spidermen folks help, and possibly baddie is Doc Ock or something.
Not quite, but by rough calculations based on their website with 1WTC next to them, they appear to be around 2000 feet tall. The Burj Khalifa is around 2700 feet tall, for reference.
@@antonioguglielmetti2661 I think the Trump design was the best. The new towers would have been about 100 feet taller then the originals. The foot print/width of the towers would have been increased by a few feet to keep proportion to the 6.5 to 1 ratio. Still would have left plenty of room for a proper memorial.
I like the new design. The 9/11 memorial is perfect, and One World Trade Center doesn’t overshadow it. One WTC respectfully stands aside from where the twin towers once stood. To me it says: “Remember what happened. And remember that we can keep going despite what happened.”
@@jrperry1611 It's not just about height, original wtc had a "different" design than surrounding buildings, it was taller had much more bulk and from certain angles it looked like it had no windows... Where this current one although not bad looking is just another glass skyscraper a bit taller than 10 of the similar next to it.
@@Sveta7 I visited New York City before, and I saw the modern world trade center from a distance. My personal opinion is that I think that the modern world trade center building is unique in its own way because of the fact that it isn’t just a giant box like most skyscrapers are, but the fact that the top of it does sort of make it look like a crystal.
So tasteless, wich is a feat since there is "gold plated twin towers", "the twin towers but bigger" and "I swear I saw this usa flag design on The Onion" to compete with
@@kawaibakanekogold twin towers probably isn't the 'worst' design. But like the "twin towers but bigger" design, it just implies that the towers are easily replaceable with better versions. We should memorialize them, and yeah the pools did just that.
I sincerely hope that’s glass, otherwise the people underneath are literally deprived of sunlight. Even if it is glass, how the hell are you going to clean that? You know how many pigeons live in new York? You know birds can’t see glass right?? This is so bad on so many levels
Right? The og towers already give me the fear of heights looking at it and knowing people jumped from the highest floors. Then boom two times taller...great
Who ever design that one is probably sick in the head, since the literal reason alot of people died that day is because they are struggling to get down...
Liebeskind was chosen for a good reason. The grand majority of these designs are absolutely terrible. No sense of proportion or harmony in relation to their environment, and even worse is that they don't respect Yamasaki 's vision of human scale. The concept of Twin Towers 2 sounded cool at least. My personal take would be similar but a bit modernized. Make twin towers but with materials inspired by One WTC. glass buildings, with similar scale and floor count (or with 90-105 floors as the sweet spot). But now that One WTC exists , I'd really love to see Foster+Partners original concept for WTC2, which is almost universally considered the most aesthetically pleasing version. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to happen due to politics and the complicated situation of tenants in nyc right now.
“Fan Made WTC Redesigns” thread on ‘Skyscraper City’ Forum ! All I can say. Though it’s the fact that the Owtc aka Freedom Tower exists (Which it Shouldn’t) goes against The Whole Point of Why We Got Attacked in the First Place ! Let alone Disgraces All those that have ever Been IN/Through the Original WTC And have Perished ❕❗️
Also when people like Myself Have Never Even Been To NYC But Witnessed the Attacks, Will Never Get to Truly Experience Just How and What those Buildings Gave and Were Like Standing Next to Them !! No All we have is the Depressing Memorial And Some Fake Ass Buildings surrounding And Built Over the Site ANYWAY Nevermind “dark humor” AHoles And Mindless Jokes but that’s besides the point
Yeah the only one that seemed serious and not disrespectful. Most seem to treat it like a joke to show off, like some kids designing. Seems there where no other good options.
@@mrandrossguy9871 Too bad, I guess? Maybe realize that there's more to life than being able to walk beneath a pair of buildings. The world doesn't revolve around you.
I’m not gonna lie to you- As a New Yorker, who saw the towers fall and now work in the area, most of these designs are terrible to the point of farce. Anything that basically was hollow, half built, wonky in structure as to even suggest collapse or deviancy from normal operations, or came up shorter than the originals is doa and it’s a small miracle we got wtc 1 as is. And most of this goes for wtc 2 proposals as well. What the hell was “spread”? Like the splat of a jumper. Office da is a starter design I like but yea…. Nathan mccraes first design is refreshingly monolithic…we needed something firm, strong, a statement of moving forward, not bending, twisting, appealing to peace or platitudes or hosting scars.
Well What we’ve got now is Still Disgraceful non the less, as we have to look at this imposter day&night. I also think NO Other building should have been Built Other than the owtc and of course the Memorial as it would have made a Bigger more Serious statement of “Oneness” but nah it’s still a site for making greedy money ? Real estate .. besides they tore down the duetche bank Building to make a “Shrine” for the St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church which was flattened by South Tower ! DISGRACEFUL Oh and put one of the Only Surviving Major Set Pieces, the ‘Koenig Sphere’ which was The CENTER PEICE Of the WTC and moved it around just to be placed Whare that 100+ year old church was ❕⁉️ Seriously ?!
@eshanas8915: Should put the towers back up, I know about having to fill space but why build WTC 3-7? Why not put all those departments into WTC towers. One world trade is nice but no way that substitutes for twin towers.
all of these are absolutely dystopian, i can not even begin to imagine the power trip that these architects were going through while designing some of these
all the designs with the original towers just give off too much trauma like imagine being at the 9/11 attacks then the same twin towers were rebuilt and open to the public again no one is gonna go inside that just like what that random dude said after the 1993 attack "this place is a death trap"
Same here. I just wish they made the two towers of light a permanent part of the site because that was the most powerful post 9/11 reminder of what happened especially when you saw it nightly on the news... EVEN as a Canadian, I can sympathize and understand the desire to keep the site clean of buildings. It seems weird after a tragedy of this scale that you'd want to build anything at all near such a "mass grave" but what they did do in the end was the best solution.. Build around the OG tower footprints and make the waterfalls a feature of gathering, reflection and yes mourning...
Apparently the twin towers in light was super bad for birds. So as a consolation they only do it on the anniversary of 911. Only thing is its not on ground zero. Instead its a few blocks south which is kind of odd. @@stickynorth
choose yuor fighter: - basically the old one with 432 Park Avenue texture mapped onto it - piss trade center - old version given the "Mk2 to 1.25m Adapter Long" treatment - "business business business, numbers numbers numbers, is this working?" - USA USA USA USA USA - help i accidentally clicked "invert color" on the blueprints - an entire city block's worth of towers made of mirrors (my car is a liquid) - woops i accidentally sat on the miniature model - minecraft spruce wood planks building - my bendy straw collection - pen - chuck-e-cheese's new cthulhu zone - cities skylines poop volcano aftermath - arecibo burj khalifa (ball) - hashtag hashtag - minecraft beacons - average k'nex build - the previous one except there's actual floor space in there - we made this one out of folded paper and someone sat on it - trick shot obstacle course with a really big syringe needle - trick shot obstacle course with a really big fountain pen - actual coherent building
This is one of the most fascinating videos yet because of just how many formal proposals were made, never mind their complexity and buildability... OR controversy... Never was there more feet-dragging and controversy over this site and rightly so. I do think what was built as probably the Greatest compromise in architecture known to date and that's probably a good thing that they "Mean Girled" the site by splitting it up between architects and phases so that they do look cohesive and yet distinct and with the addition of housing soon will be a truly 24-7 global district for the ages... As a journalist AND skyscraper fan seeing this project slowly come back to life over the last 20+ years since that awful day has been fascinating. It was also a cool 30th birthday to be in NYC on a Circle Line Boat Tour the day they lifted the final piece of the spire into place...
My personal choice was the skeleton version of Childs/Libeskind just before the final design was locked. I loved the open air steel lattice work which reminds me of both the Eiffel Tower and Beijing's Bird's Nest... It brings you all the height and drama of the original twins with none of the structural or safety complexity of having visitors and tenants above a certain height... Much like China has now locked into its national building codes after a few record-breaking towers with great designs but not well thought out economics or safety plans...
3:30 4:10 Seriously? If I woke up in NY and saw that randomly on the skyline, I'd actually fall back and scream in terror, thinking the Noodle Octopus aliens finally came down and got us.
Very cool vid. I remember flipping through a book of all the different proposals when I was young. Gotta say the connected Foster twins were always my favorite
Compared with them the only one that looks respectful is the freedom tower. The Alliance towers are completely ridiculous too imo and would have looked like a joke next to all the lot smaller buildings. I can't believe architects where this disrespectful, it's like 10 year olds trying to design them. Specially the silly inflatable looking tubes and that huge brown prison looking thing
I think the firefighting department should have to approve any design these architects come up with. How are firefighters suppose to get up to put out basic fires? Much less actual emergencies where the elevators are down
@@mariekatherine5238yes! 9/11 happened because there was barely any airport security at the time, airport security EXISTS cuz of 9/11, this would basically be visiting the Burj Khalifa (I hope I spelled that right) in NYC!
I looked up the context and these designs were made as part of a 2002 NYC art exhibit called “A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals” where 100 architects were asked to redesign the site and 60 made submissions.
Whatever degree program or schools produce architects need to implement mandatory drug testing. "Put down the crack pipe, sir. You're designing buildings."
Donald Trump's "Twin Towers 2" was by far the best design put forward. Kept what was great about the old buildings but made them better stronger and taller. The plaza memorial looked great and the small buildings were modern
My personal pick would be the initial plan by Foster and Partners. I love how it keeps with the idea of twin towers, but it doesn't just copy the original design, it has it's own unique and sleek geometric design that gives hints to the buildings that once were. Simply beautiful.
0:11 Twin Towers Original 0:45 Twin towers Gold 1:03 twin towers Alliance 1:13 Un named Building 1:18 World Trade Center Memorial 1:31 Memorial building 1:47 world trade center Complex 1:56 World trade center Complex 2 2:39 Interior Building 3:25 Bundle Tower 4:02 Office D.a Tower 4:13 A New World Peace Center 4:26 Mel Chin 4:46 Rattner Building 5:25 Memorial Square Building 6:11 A Tribute In Light 6:30 Vinõlys Twin Tower 6:58 Diamond Building 7:50 World Trade Center Complex 3 8:10 World trade center Complex 4 8:37 World trade center complex 5 9:08 Final Design
Did anybody notice that Donald Trump's Twin Towers II design was probably the most sensible idea of all of them? People loved the World Trade Center just the way it was. The Twin Towers were a beautiful design.
0:26 Tht has to be the most radical design change ever! One that introduces new elements of modern architecture while being able to maintain the original aesthetic! Why didn’t this ensign go through?
Maybe it’s because it would’ve been hard to market the space for offices. How in God’s name do you convince someone to work inside upgraded Twin Towers aside from “If you don’t work in this space you hate America!”
Trump Twin Towers II was the the most close to best option of rebuilding this site. Not rebuilding the twins and construction ''Freedom Tower'' with other buildings was a disaster for skyline of New York.
The twin towers was an obsolete design by that point and freedom tower is built much stronger and with what happened to the original wtc in mind when they built it
I remember many of them. I usually think it would have been best to build all the competing proposals for a site, but this time? nope. Most were total crap.
My humourical descriptions of the proposed designs 0:19 may inflict memories.. 0:44 same thing but in gold 1:04 same thing but *l o n g* 1:13 naaaah 1:18 MURICA🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 1:33 *my eyes are getting assaulted* 1:49 By the Saints! what sorcery is? I am utterly confounded by the peculiararity of these towers! 2:16 ah yes, the *n o o d l e t o w e r s* 2:52 mom? The dog pooed on the WTC again 3:24 *m o r e n o o d l e t o w e r s* 4:06 uhhh 4:13 WHYYYY😭😭😭 4:29 where is it? No seriously, where? 4:43 oh… there is it… 4:50 6 Burj Khalifas and a ball that will drop like it’s NYE 5:28 my eyes are getting assaulted again 6:13 what is this, modern art? Where’s the building 6:34 this is just unfinished 6:57 this one doesn’t look too bad 7:54 awww noooo. EEEEEWWWWW 8:15 this thing thinner than the temu girls 8:38 eww 9:11 the tourture is over! Oh wait the time stamp
1:38 looks amazing! That should've been the one that took the cake! You still have the twins but they are protected and incased in a strong barrier complimenting the beauty of the twins. People could even go to the top deck. That design has soo much potential in it.
I’d love to see the different old Chicago World Trade Center proposals at the NYC WTC site. One of them looks really similar to the OWTC too They were much bigger than the Twins and having one bigger and taller building would’ve been better than one same-sized building like OWTC. It feels incomplete. Also I love that version of the Tribute in Light and how it actually shines up from the footprints. I’ll never understand why they didn’t do it like that
They honestly should have just rebuilt both towers exactly as they were but with updated safety standards. Would some have seen this as insensitive? Sure. But it also would have been a great message of defiance.
The fact they didn't build the Twin Towers II or Alliance was just an insult to not only the people who built those towers, but the people who survived as well.
Do you remember all of these proposals? Which one were you hoping would get built.
Twin Towers II would’ve definitely been better and it’s such a shame it didn’t get built, The WTC in gold is also pretty interesting
Twin Towers II 100% thanks for including that in. it's my favorite design better then these current buildings they built.
I like the crystal-looking one, gives a sense of unity and togetherness. Foster and Partners’ glass Twins aren’t half bad either, in fact I prefer them over OWTC, as well as Daniel Liebskind’s original vision for the Ground Zero redesign.
The twin tower alliance was the one that topped it all off and it was the favorite one of all especially for me❤❤
Twin towers 2, if not its always been foster and partners. Its magnificent, and twin towers view in perfect lightning conditions.
Some of these are absolutely horrific. One has to seriously wonder what on earth was going through the minds of some of these architects.
I was about to say the exact same, definitely an assault on the eyes. Like, I can't believe they got paid to come up with such travesties
Yeah, we had also very weird propositions for Notre-Dame de Paris. So in the end they went with rebuilding identical.
Creativity is nice but not if you're going to ruin a landmark and skyline.
@@Kerrogann You did?! I'm gonna have to check those out. I couldn't imagine anything other than a replica of Notre-Dame being in that spot! That disaster stills shocks me, couldn't believe watching that place burn live on the news- it's so iconic.
@@Kerrogann I've just seen one with a swimming pool on the roof?! Wtf were they thinking 😂
Drugs, lots of drugs, one would assume.
crazy how hard it is to design a normal building
People like to pretend like they're on another level than you, and design something that no one understands like the perception of beauty with magically change in the starchitects favor.
They're not trying to design a normal building, that's the problem
That’s modern architecture for you, they’d rather build something ugly as hell than something beautiful
Because just constantly building rectangular prisms is boring as hell.
@@eletricalplugandoutlet1540 As opposed to what? Tentacles or buildings that curve every 2 floors? The art of architecture is transforming the simplist things. One trick is adding blocks on top of another.
"an architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare"
haha very true
You’ve know idea man…
I think some architects forgot that it was a real city that had to live with their atrocious designs. What was Morris Adjmi even smoking when he came up with the star sprangled tower of doom?
He was smoking gunpowder prolly
Ive heard that at the time of the twin towers being built New Yorkers actually really hated them and how they looked. Not entirely sure why, I’ve never lived in a city with skyscrapers like this but I’m sure they had their reasons. I will say at least the original actually looked like a building rather than a bunch of ugly colored noodles 😵
@@Hucklefart_Dinklejartinthe reason was how box shaped and gray it was, they were used to geometric and shapes buildings but the WTC were just rectangles, tall and grey rectangles
@@Hucklefart_Dinklejartinthe original WTC was, to be fair, hideous. They were just gigantic grey boxes with no attempt at design whatsoever. New York has always been associated with art deco architecture with decorative elements, they clashed with the image of the entire city.
Aa for Adjmi's design, those are flags hanging over an empty building frame. His proposal was just a memorial, not a usable building.
Pure American freedom
4:10 they really said “yea, this is it”
haha!
Of course it was designed by a guy named MacFarlane.
@@koreboredom4302 its even orange and green
Looks like tentacles coming out of the ground. Giant anime monster invasion?
Looks like a level from Spiderman 2
The 9 1 1 towers got me cackling holy shit
Same 💀
“Guys we really really need to make sure they never forget”.
@LordBingus1 "oh they will try... but we will make sure they dont😂"
It is almost like a tribute to the terrorist attack itself instead of the victims
Imagined getting hit and killed by a car, and your tombstone is the brand logo of that car, it's that energy here.
4:10 they gave NYC a nerve opening???
I really believe the Twin Towers Alliance's was the best design, as if to say "you can tear us down but we will rise up taller then before"
Yeah I wish they did that. I never saw the original twin towers
Couldn’t agree more.
It's like, you can hit, but we will stand up straighter and stronger, taller and more powerful.
I think they're the worst design out of all of them tbh. It looks even more precarious than the original towers, it's like we're asking for them to do another attack.
For me it looks kinda odd with the skyline?@@space_1073
Who on Earth thought a giant rusty block would be a good idea?
i feel like it’s just a poorly rendered granite building but considering the other designs it’s probably a lot worse
@@Gimeasamich I looked it up and it seems it was never anything more than just a guy’s drawing, rather than a serious proposal.
NEVER disrespect a starchitect’s tone deaf vision, your hurting their ego
It’s the world-famous Block of Doom.
The absolutely brilliant Raimund Abraham. The lines through the structure are cut so that the sun only shines through them at significant times corresponding with when the planes hit and the towers collapsed. Stonehenge for a national tragedy on a monolithic scale.
I like 1:30 Leaving an empty space were the original towers stood. i think of it as a metaphor about how we can’t replace the lives that were lost.
Yeah, but holy shit it does seem to suck in practice.
Symbolically, it’s a genius design. But aside from that, way too much wasted space for it to make sense.
@@OreoMiilkShakezI guess it inspired the reflection pool?
The building itself wasn't a good idea, too impratical
What one also got me wondering as well. And when I read your comments I also seemed to sway to that design choice a bit more. It seems more respectful that way too.
@@OreoMiilkShakezmaybe not. The space around the memorial is already unused, so putting a building around the footprint would actually make it more useable
4:46 is just a spiderman action scene waiting to happen
o r b
The orb's bouncing around, Mary Jane or any other relative is in it. Spiderman pulls like the train like scene, or maybe have other spidermen folks help, and possibly baddie is Doc Ock or something.
The orb's connecting lines have been cut and its up to Spiderman to save the citizens that are below it by using his webs
This joke is gonna get me in trouble
Some shit out of half life
3:27. "So we know that you're all a bit sad about 9/11 and all so we got you some wacky waving inflatable arm tube men to cheer you all up!"
hahah!
This comment is pure gold.
I know a guy named Al Harrington in Weekapaugh that has surplus of them. He's selling them cheap. ;)
Imagine cleaning the windows on those monstrosities.
More like 4:10
2:41 this shit looks likes a supervillans lair 💀
minecraft spruce wood planks
Lord farquads Castle, think he's compensating for something? 😂😂😂
Freaking megatowers from judge dredd
A man with a black suit with a goatee and it's something cody banks would barge into lol
It's literally just a pile of brick walls. Plane proof design.
6:09 they got the minecraft beacons in NYC
I mean they do that today…
It gives them haste which is why new york has so many skyscrapers
That ended up becoming real. They do that on 9/11 every year because the new tower ended up not being built exactly where they used to stand.
I love the Twin Towers Alliance design the best. They look like they would have been the tallest buildings in the world even to this day
Need to make the footprint larger as they just look like giant pencils.
Agree it just looks too tall@@JonVoid37
me too😇
Not quite, but by rough calculations based on their website with 1WTC next to them, they appear to be around 2000 feet tall. The Burj Khalifa is around 2700 feet tall, for reference.
@@antonioguglielmetti2661 I think the Trump design was the best. The new towers would have been about 100 feet taller then the originals. The foot print/width of the towers would have been increased by a few feet to keep proportion to the 6.5 to 1 ratio. Still would have left plenty of room for a proper memorial.
“Let’s just pile three boxes of 3D usa flags and an antenna on top. There’s nothing more patriotic than that.” 1:17
Murica! 🇺🇸
What happens when you design your buildings off of Minecraft,
That’s like the design from that one Onion video.
MURICAAA 🦅🦅🦅🦅
That one seriously looks like crap. If I died in that attack I’d be mad.
4:09 “let’s just put a video game map marker here or smth” lmao
Not even those are that obnoxious
What the heck would they even think about some of those designs some of them look like pool noodles?
3:22
Inr 😂😂😂😅😅😅
Were these architects in kindergarten? lol
It’s like someone froze cooked spaghetti and stood it up to make some kind of art piece.
They even called it the “bundle towers” yeah they sure are a bundle, a bundle of sticks. Had they been built the nickname would’ve been quite unsavory
The biggest problem with one wtc is that it is not prominent and bold enough, it just doesn't stand out like the original towers did.
It's because it's missing tower two. The diamonds on the top of tower two would make everything super iconic.
I mean, it still stands out a lot because it’s so tall.
I like the new design. The 9/11 memorial is perfect, and One World Trade Center doesn’t overshadow it. One WTC respectfully stands aside from where the twin towers once stood. To me it says: “Remember what happened. And remember that we can keep going despite what happened.”
@@jrperry1611 It's not just about height, original wtc had a "different" design than surrounding buildings, it was taller had much more bulk and from certain angles it looked like it had no windows... Where this current one although not bad looking is just another glass skyscraper a bit taller than 10 of the similar next to it.
@@Sveta7 I visited New York City before, and I saw the modern world trade center from a distance. My personal opinion is that I think that the modern world trade center building is unique in its own way because of the fact that it isn’t just a giant box like most skyscrapers are, but the fact that the top of it does sort of make it look like a crystal.
4:26 wtf is that
Okay who the hell even though of this
It looks like someone farted really bad and the stench is visibly permeating the city. But yeah I actually have no idea what that’s supposed to be.
@@chewy99.this genuinely made me laugh
Someone had dirrehea
Im pretty sure it’s where the debris from the WTC’s collapse went
1:12 that's horrific
So tasteless, wich is a feat since there is "gold plated twin towers", "the twin towers but bigger" and "I swear I saw this usa flag design on The Onion" to compete with
@@kawaibakanekogold twin towers probably isn't the 'worst' design. But like the "twin towers but bigger" design, it just implies that the towers are easily replaceable with better versions. We should memorialize them, and yeah the pools did just that.
4:20 "Let's make the city look like it was flooded with pee!"
😂😂😂😂 4:20
wait where was the building?
I sincerely hope that’s glass, otherwise the people underneath are literally deprived of sunlight. Even if it is glass, how the hell are you going to clean that? You know how many pigeons live in new York? You know birds can’t see glass right?? This is so bad on so many levels
@@Ethanisselfaware it’s a long platform acting as a second story above the entirety of New York
@@billie-ve_in_yourself6464 lol like wtf
lmao imagine dying and your death site is replaced by some big ass spaghetti noodles
“We have to find his lair”
2:36 *the villain’s lair*
"hmmm yeah this big ass rusty pillar will do
Not the hashtag towers💀
Tic tac toe towers
WHERE? WHEN?
@@justhere4637 5:37
Minecraft fence towers
@justhere4637 5:56
ok what even is SPREAD- like i think it deserves its own new classification in the world of architecture😭
cities skylines poop volcano aftermath
i think it's supposed to be the dust cloud (???)
whats the timestamp?
@@Wrennityy4:26
literally though, what even was the goal??? how are they gonna put that in the city??? what are they putting in the city even???
4:10 - MacFarlane: Ladies & Gentleman, I propose that we grow a giant tentacle monster in place of the World Trade Centre. Who's with me!?
Me!
@@Plasma58465realis your name jacob
*cricket noise*
For all the complaining people do about Freedom Tower, it's way better than most of the other designs in this vid.
By far... In my opinion anyway
It was always going to be two becoming one, because...you know. The agenda.
Foster and partners’s design is interesting tho… such a contrast to the original square column design
I like how the first few were just "Twin Towers Deluxe" then "Twin Towers Gold" then "Twin Towers Long"
I was half expecting to get "plated in gold 200 floors high Twin Towers"
it’s like the twin towers are cigarettes
Yeah a little originality goes a long way guys. Come on.
1:00 Damn can't imagine the towers 2 times taller. It's creepy literally
@@Alby. Escaping the WTC using steps was hard enough. Imagine running down THAT
I know. It looks even more precarious than the original towers, it's like we're asking to get attacked again.
Right? The og towers already give me the fear of heights looking at it and knowing people jumped from the highest floors. Then boom two times taller...great
Who ever design that one is probably sick in the head, since the literal reason alot of people died that day is because they are struggling to get down...
I would have looked so ridiculous next to all the smaller buildings, a child must have come up with this idea.
3:42 nahh they really tried to build the world spagheti center ☠
@jr28778nahhhhhhh are you alright my man did you actually die
We’re offending the Italians with this one 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🥶🥶💯💯
Surprised someone proposed golden twin towers and it WASN’T Trump.
(He proposed aluminum ones)
True. Even: Twice as tall and golden, that feels like it would have been the Trump proposal.
but no: just aluminium and fairly "regular" sized.
Pretty good metaphor for the War on Terror and all the defence budget the US spent post-9/11
@GustavSvard: Regular size? He wanted to build them higher and stronger but to keep the towers as they looked.
@moreedcola6837: Terrorist won, they achieved multiple goals that day.
@@letsgobrandon7297 but only like 10 floors taller. Not twice as tall.
6:29 Forgot to finish his build but it's alright
He couldn’t finish the Minecraft creative challenge 😭
Liebeskind was chosen for a good reason. The grand majority of these designs are absolutely terrible. No sense of proportion or harmony in relation to their environment, and even worse is that they don't respect Yamasaki 's vision of human scale.
The concept of Twin Towers 2 sounded cool at least. My personal take would be similar but a bit modernized. Make twin towers but with materials inspired by One WTC. glass buildings, with similar scale and floor count (or with 90-105 floors as the sweet spot). But now that One WTC exists , I'd really love to see Foster+Partners original concept for WTC2, which is almost universally considered the most aesthetically pleasing version. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to happen due to politics and the complicated situation of tenants in nyc right now.
“Fan Made WTC Redesigns” thread on ‘Skyscraper City’ Forum ! All I can say.
Though it’s the fact that the Owtc aka Freedom Tower exists (Which it Shouldn’t) goes against The Whole Point of Why We Got Attacked in the First Place ! Let alone Disgraces All those that have ever Been IN/Through the Original WTC And have Perished ❕❗️
Also when people like Myself Have Never Even Been To NYC But Witnessed the Attacks, Will Never Get to Truly Experience Just How and What those Buildings Gave and Were Like Standing Next to Them !!
No All we have is the Depressing Memorial And Some Fake Ass Buildings surrounding And Built Over the Site ANYWAY Nevermind “dark humor” AHoles And Mindless Jokes but that’s besides the point
Yeah the only one that seemed serious and not disrespectful. Most seem to treat it like a joke to show off, like some kids designing. Seems there where no other good options.
@@mrandrossguy9871 Too bad, I guess? Maybe realize that there's more to life than being able to walk beneath a pair of buildings. The world doesn't revolve around you.
@@mrandrossguy9871 Comments that capitalize every word are so, so painful to read…
I’m not gonna lie to you-
As a New Yorker, who saw the towers fall and now work in the area, most of these designs are terrible to the point of farce. Anything that basically was hollow, half built, wonky in structure as to even suggest collapse or deviancy from normal operations, or came up shorter than the originals is doa and it’s a small miracle we got wtc 1 as is. And most of this goes for wtc 2 proposals as well. What the hell was “spread”? Like the splat of a jumper.
Office da is a starter design I like but yea…. Nathan mccraes first design is refreshingly monolithic…we needed something firm, strong, a statement of moving forward, not bending, twisting, appealing to peace or platitudes or hosting scars.
Well What we’ve got now is Still Disgraceful non the less, as we have to look at this imposter day&night.
I also think NO Other building should have been Built Other than the owtc and of course the Memorial as it would have made a Bigger more Serious statement of “Oneness” but nah it’s still a site for making greedy money ? Real estate ..
besides they tore down the duetche bank Building to make a “Shrine” for the St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church which was flattened by South Tower ! DISGRACEFUL
Oh and put one of the Only Surviving Major Set Pieces, the ‘Koenig Sphere’ which was The CENTER PEICE Of the WTC and moved it around just to be placed Whare that 100+ year old church was ❕⁉️ Seriously ?!
@eshanas8915: Should put the towers back up, I know about having to fill space but why build WTC 3-7? Why not put all those departments into WTC towers. One world trade is nice but no way that substitutes for twin towers.
@@APerson-ni1gb I'm shocked you see the owtc as an imposter or something. It's a new building, it isn't trying to look like or be the old towers.
@@space_1073nor should it try to be. The originals were extremely ugly.
@@noggin6870 Yeah they were pretty much just big gray blocks lol.
Nobody can replace Minoru Yamasaki's original World Trade Center design
well they clearly got replaced
@@h.f6364what he’s saying is the original towers are the best
@@CvvbbjI think they’re overrated personally, just two really tall boring buildings
@@KnucklesWTD They were designed like that for floor space. I don't think they were boring at all. They reflected sunlight in a really cool way.
@@goodkrypollo1706I agree they looked boring from afar, but they are so iconic and up close and inside you could see the beauty in them.
all of these are absolutely dystopian, i can not even begin to imagine the power trip that these architects were going through while designing some of these
All???? Even the first one???
4:26 S.P.R.E.A.D?
I have no clue what that’s supposed, is it supposed to be a giant fart cloud?
You Made Me Laugh 😂😅
It was supposed to be a giant platform. Like a second floor of the city. It was rejected for a billion reasons
@RlingCap-uk6rk the people underneath would have no sunlight at all
@@goochencore4128 That's just one of the reasons
@@Athenaa13 Do you have mroe info on this? it seems kind of interesting
all the designs with the original towers just give off too much trauma
like imagine being at the 9/11 attacks then the same twin towers were rebuilt and open to the public again
no one is gonna go inside that
just like what that random dude said after the 1993 attack
"this place is a death trap"
were you even alive for 9/11
@@amentco8445😭
like 20 people survived and 30 including firefighters also i doubt their gonna go to that place again
@@amentco8445LO
I love the idea of the new building having two empty spaces for the missing original building's
That’d be kinda Morbid to me tbhonest
How would that be morbid?
Why it's what ended up happening now... Memorial waterfall gardens and they are beautful...@@mrandrossguy9871
Same here. I just wish they made the two towers of light a permanent part of the site because that was the most powerful post 9/11 reminder of what happened especially when you saw it nightly on the news... EVEN as a Canadian, I can sympathize and understand the desire to keep the site clean of buildings. It seems weird after a tragedy of this scale that you'd want to build anything at all near such a "mass grave" but what they did do in the end was the best solution.. Build around the OG tower footprints and make the waterfalls a feature of gathering, reflection and yes mourning...
Apparently the twin towers in light was super bad for birds. So as a consolation they only do it on the anniversary of 911. Only thing is its not on ground zero. Instead its a few blocks south which is kind of odd. @@stickynorth
choose yuor fighter:
- basically the old one with 432 Park Avenue texture mapped onto it
- piss trade center
- old version given the "Mk2 to 1.25m Adapter Long" treatment
- "business business business, numbers numbers numbers, is this working?"
- USA USA USA USA USA
- help i accidentally clicked "invert color" on the blueprints
- an entire city block's worth of towers made of mirrors (my car is a liquid)
- woops i accidentally sat on the miniature model
- minecraft spruce wood planks building
- my bendy straw collection
- pen
- chuck-e-cheese's new cthulhu zone
- cities skylines poop volcano aftermath
- arecibo burj khalifa (ball)
- hashtag hashtag
- minecraft beacons
- average k'nex build
- the previous one except there's actual floor space in there
- we made this one out of folded paper and someone sat on it
- trick shot obstacle course with a really big syringe needle
- trick shot obstacle course with a really big fountain pen
- actual coherent building
USA USA 🦅💥🇺🇸
This comment is not getting enough attention, this is hilarious
I’d choose “help I accidentally clicked invert color on the blueprints.” I dunno why, but I actually love the design.
balls
The K'nex building legit has a -___- in it
4:09 The Architects HAD to of been drunk and just legit said "Fuck it, Im not even trying." Cause it's THAT BAD.
Tbh I don’t think they got paid to do it
You think alchohol does this?
LSD does this!
4:10 looks like the city is being attacked by a huge kajiu
A Tribute in Light actually seems like it’d be real pretty
@@tigersfan1993 I don't think they let airplanes fly there anymore.
A really great blatant disregard to light polution, as well as just a waste of energy
@@christopherrapczynski204 wait till I tell you about the Vegas sphere
Isn't it real? I swear they already do that
They do that every year on 9/11 but not at the original site. Also they take care that it doesnt trap any birds
Definitely prefer Twin Towers 2
5:05 Ah yes, a alien nest.
i knew it was the aliens since the beginning !
looks cyberpunk or something lol
2:37 my empire of wood
This is one of the most fascinating videos yet because of just how many formal proposals were made, never mind their complexity and buildability... OR controversy... Never was there more feet-dragging and controversy over this site and rightly so. I do think what was built as probably the Greatest compromise in architecture known to date and that's probably a good thing that they "Mean Girled" the site by splitting it up between architects and phases so that they do look cohesive and yet distinct and with the addition of housing soon will be a truly 24-7 global district for the ages... As a journalist AND skyscraper fan seeing this project slowly come back to life over the last 20+ years since that awful day has been fascinating. It was also a cool 30th birthday to be in NYC on a Circle Line Boat Tour the day they lifted the final piece of the spire into place...
My personal choice was the skeleton version of Childs/Libeskind just before the final design was locked. I loved the open air steel lattice work which reminds me of both the Eiffel Tower and Beijing's Bird's Nest... It brings you all the height and drama of the original twins with none of the structural or safety complexity of having visitors and tenants above a certain height... Much like China has now locked into its national building codes after a few record-breaking towers with great designs but not well thought out economics or safety plans...
People forget that 8:37 was the winner and at the end, it was the plan implemented for reconstruction.
Yep!
Oh I didn’t know that
Oh I didn’t know that
Loool xd, thanks, now the 1wtc doesn't look too bad🤣🤦🏻♂️
3:30
4:10
Seriously? If I woke up in NY and saw that randomly on the skyline, I'd actually fall back and scream in terror, thinking the Noodle Octopus aliens finally came down and got us.
5:27 Bro realy said: #
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Very cool vid. I remember flipping through a book of all the different proposals when I was young. Gotta say the connected Foster twins were always my favorite
They’re my favourites too. Shame they were never built.
almost all of these designs are eyesores lmao
Hence why none of them were built 😁
Compared with them the only one that looks respectful is the freedom tower. The Alliance towers are completely ridiculous too imo and would have looked like a joke next to all the lot smaller buildings. I can't believe architects where this disrespectful, it's like 10 year olds trying to design them. Specially the silly inflatable looking tubes and that huge brown prison looking thing
@@teijaflink2226Seriously, like I need some context on whatever the heck S.P.R.E.A.D was
@@bod-7268 it was going to be a 2nd floor of manhattan, long glass and walkways and blah blah. bad idea basically
1:38 is actually sick!
Fr
it represents that you can’t replace the lives that were lost during 9/11
1:07 Those look scary tall
It is absolutely horrifying. Imagine being reminded of 9/11 every day except they’re taller,, so now more people can be reminded lol
I think the firefighting department should have to approve any design these architects come up with. How are firefighters suppose to get up to put out basic fires? Much less actual emergencies where the elevators are down
Original 105+ Floors
This One 210+ Floors
1:14 Frank La Commare's design is what I would build in Roblox as a 10 year old in a NYC roleplay game
who tf thought it would be a good idea to build them again but just taller 😭
At least it looked least hideous of the rest dumb trash.
Really! Would you visit or want to work in them?
@@mariekatherine5238yes! 9/11 happened because there was barely any airport security at the time, airport security EXISTS cuz of 9/11, this would basically be visiting the Burj Khalifa (I hope I spelled that right) in NYC!
I do
I mean compared to all other godawful eyesore 'designs' on this list its not that bad
I looked up the context and these designs were made as part of a 2002 NYC art exhibit called “A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals” where 100 architects were asked to redesign the site and 60 made submissions.
Half of these look like they belong in a art museum and not as a building 💀
Goofy ahh tower
Whatever degree program or schools produce architects need to implement mandatory drug testing.
"Put down the crack pipe, sir. You're designing buildings."
its not even art dude its just garbage
5:23 Nah bro not the hashtag building 💀
stopppp😭
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4:39 Can anyone please explain to me what the hell "Spread" is supposed to be?
A "second floor to the city" apparently (horrific idea)
This shits gonna turn it into coruscant
What were these architects thinking 😭😭😭
The Nathan McRae one is actually pretty cool
I thought for a minute that one of the buildings looked like a standing pair of pants.👖
Donald Trump's "Twin Towers 2" was by far the best design put forward. Kept what was great about the old buildings but made them better stronger and taller. The plaza memorial looked great and the small buildings were modern
1:32 Love this design.
My personal pick would be the initial plan by Foster and Partners. I love how it keeps with the idea of twin towers, but it doesn't just copy the original design, it has it's own unique and sleek geometric design that gives hints to the buildings that once were. Simply beautiful.
9:12 “yeah I think giant tentacles will solve this”
You accidentally put freedom tower instead 😭
1:32 I was like “that’s kinda cool” until the top view was revealed
The holes in the building are where the original towers were. That one was just a memorial.
1:56 bro really said "make em get more planes"
they goddamn subdivided
Bro got favorited 💀💀💀
✈️✈️🗼🗼🗼✈️
0:11 Twin Towers Original
0:45 Twin towers Gold
1:03 twin towers Alliance
1:13 Un named Building
1:18 World Trade Center Memorial
1:31 Memorial building
1:47 world trade center
Complex
1:56 World trade center Complex 2
2:39 Interior Building
3:25 Bundle Tower
4:02 Office D.a Tower
4:13 A New World Peace Center
4:26 Mel Chin
4:46 Rattner Building
5:25 Memorial Square Building
6:11 A Tribute In Light
6:30 Vinõlys Twin Tower
6:58 Diamond Building
7:50 World Trade Center Complex 3
8:10 World trade center Complex 4
8:37 World trade center complex 5
9:08 Final Design
Did anybody notice that Donald Trump's Twin Towers II design was probably the most sensible idea of all of them? People loved the World Trade Center just the way it was. The Twin Towers were a beautiful design.
4:14 ok what is this..😶😶😶
0:26 Tht has to be the most radical design change ever! One that introduces new elements of modern architecture while being able to maintain the original aesthetic! Why didn’t this ensign go through?
Cause planes still existing
It would had taken another long ass time to make
Maybe it’s because it would’ve been hard to market the space for offices. How in God’s name do you convince someone to work inside upgraded Twin Towers aside from “If you don’t work in this space you hate America!”
Because the towers were irreplaceable
0:43 "The Gold Towers"
World Gold Towers
Piss Trade Center (not to offend)
Trump Twin Towers II was the the most close to best option of rebuilding this site. Not rebuilding the twins and construction ''Freedom Tower'' with other buildings was a disaster for skyline of New York.
I disagree
The twin towers was an obsolete design by that point and freedom tower is built much stronger and with what happened to the original wtc in mind when they built it
Besides that one, most of these look like post-modernist garbage or dystopian.
Me looking out the window in the morning just to be blinded by the sun reflecting off the solid gold building right outside my window
4:55 has some aura
cyberpunk aura
6:14 I thought they had that before the one world trade
Theres smaller beacons to the side
Oh
I remember many of them.
I usually think it would have been best to build all the competing proposals for a site, but this time? nope. Most were total crap.
My humourical descriptions of the proposed designs
0:19 may inflict memories..
0:44 same thing but in gold
1:04 same thing but *l o n g*
1:13 naaaah
1:18 MURICA🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
1:33 *my eyes are getting assaulted*
1:49 By the Saints! what sorcery is? I am utterly confounded by the peculiararity of these towers!
2:16 ah yes, the *n o o d l e t o w e r s*
2:52 mom? The dog pooed on the WTC again
3:24 *m o r e n o o d l e t o w e r s*
4:06 uhhh
4:13 WHYYYY😭😭😭
4:29 where is it? No seriously, where?
4:43 oh… there is it…
4:50 6 Burj Khalifas and a ball that will drop like it’s NYE
5:28 my eyes are getting assaulted again
6:13 what is this, modern art? Where’s the building
6:34 this is just unfinished
6:57 this one doesn’t look too bad
7:54 awww noooo. EEEEEWWWWW
8:15 this thing thinner than the temu girls
8:38 eww
9:11 the tourture is over! Oh wait the time stamp
are you this mentally ill?
"where is it? No seriously, where??" Its the whole thing, its a big net all across the city
@@skipelen wow just wow that’s the most stupid idea ever
@@Guy96477 he isn't a architect he is an conceptual artists so that explains most things
I thought these were just gonna be a bunch of memes made by the video creator, but, the memes made themselves
1:38 looks amazing! That should've been the one that took the cake! You still have the twins but they are protected and incased in a strong barrier complimenting the beauty of the twins. People could even go to the top deck. That design has soo much potential in it.
It would’ve been beyond massive to build
I’d love to see the different old Chicago World Trade Center proposals at the NYC WTC site. One of them looks really similar to the OWTC too
They were much bigger than the Twins and having one bigger and taller building would’ve been better than one same-sized building like OWTC. It feels incomplete.
Also I love that version of the Tribute in Light and how it actually shines up from the footprints. I’ll never understand why they didn’t do it like that
4:50 Goes for the full Dubai Cyberpunk edition, unlimited budget!
1:21 is just a fucking flag jpeg slapped onto the building, holy shit I know it’s supposed to be a memorial but what were they thinking 😭
Some of them straight up look like it was designed by an 8 year old..
4:13 Imagine living in an alternate dimension where *THAT* is standing instead of One World Trade Center..
Twin Towers II all the way
It’s the obvious choice lol
New Yorkers would get ptsd and I can't imagine many people be willing to work in the towers...
As you say?
The simplest the better.
Minimalistic design never gets boring.
Wtf is S.P.R.E.A.D. meant to be?!
A platform basically. Pretty much a "second floor" if you think about it. But it had so many problems and side effects it was rejected on the spot.
@@Athenaa13 a pile of sewage shit
Not to mention it just looks stupid
Evangelion
ngl very underrated channel, nice video
Thanks!
They honestly should have just rebuilt both towers exactly as they were but with updated safety standards. Would some have seen this as insensitive? Sure. But it also would have been a great message of defiance.
the person who thought in 4:23 is absolutely CRAZYYYY
What is it supposed to be ?
@@oceanexblve884a second floor below new york
@@oceanexblve884a platform across the city
The fact they didn't build the Twin Towers II or Alliance was just an insult to not only the people who built those towers, but the people who survived as well.
Sometimes I wonder how some people are architects/engineers with ideas like these
5:13 this one kinda sick Ngl. Idk how tf it would be possible tho
it looks like some sci fi cyberpunk building
at 4:11 stuff got crazy💀💀💀