Do you remember all of these proposals? Which one were you hoping would get built.

@zacharyharris628

11 ай бұрын

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

@mikezach3116

11 ай бұрын

Twin Towers II 100% thanks for including that in. it's my favorite design better then these current buildings they built.

@moreedcola6837

9 ай бұрын

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.

@jeseramos2083

9 ай бұрын

The twin tower alliance was the one that topped it all off and it was the favorite one of all especially for me❤❤

@tannerbucky

8 ай бұрын

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.

@posticusmaximus1739

2 ай бұрын

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

@Arkthus

2 ай бұрын

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.

@jonathanlandau-litewski7405

2 ай бұрын

@@Arkthus 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.

@jonathanlandau-litewski7405

2 ай бұрын

@@Arkthus I've just seen one with a swimming pool on the roof?! Wtf were they thinking 😂

@AgentMaryland

2 ай бұрын

Drugs, lots of drugs, one would assume.

"an architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare"

@lewisgarrison860

23 күн бұрын

haha very true

@micky100

21 күн бұрын

You’ve know idea man…

crazy how hard it is to design a normal building

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

2 ай бұрын

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.

@GuiFernandes.

Ай бұрын

They're not trying to design a normal building, that's the problem

@Leatherface123.

Ай бұрын

That’s modern architecture for you, they’d rather build something ugly as hell than something beautiful

@eletricalplugandoutlet1540

Ай бұрын

Because just constantly building rectangular prisms is boring as hell.

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

Ай бұрын

@@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?

@RlingCap-uk6rk

Ай бұрын

He was smoking gunpowder prolly

@Hucklefart_Dinklejartin

Ай бұрын

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 😵

@nerdyaddy5286

29 күн бұрын

@@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

@noggin6870

22 күн бұрын

​@@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.

@Bloomd64

21 күн бұрын

@@nerdyaddy5286i wasnt alive at the time but it gave some sort of unique aspect to the nyc skyline

Who on Earth thought a giant rusty block would be a good idea?

@Gimeasamich

Ай бұрын

i feel like it’s just a poorly rendered granite building but considering the other designs it’s probably a lot worse

@savagepanda8458

Ай бұрын

@@Gimeasamich I looked it up and it seems it was never anything more than just a guy’s drawing, rather than a serious proposal.

@dariush7525

Ай бұрын

NEVER disrespect a starchitect’s tone deaf vision, your hurting their ego

@edcola6671

Ай бұрын

It’s the world-famous Block of Doom.

@noggin6870

22 күн бұрын

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.

4:10 they really said “yea, this is it”

@lewisgarrison860

2 ай бұрын

haha!

@koreboredom4302

Ай бұрын

Of course it was designed by a guy named MacFarlane.

@jango7889

28 күн бұрын

​@@koreboredom4302 its even orange and green

@UltraVibeProductions

26 күн бұрын

Looks like tentacles coming out of the ground. Giant anime monster invasion?

@taylorgriffin3445

23 күн бұрын

Looks like a level from Spiderman 2

6:09 they got the minecraft beacons in NYC

@sonicdoesnotlikeillinois7813

Ай бұрын

I mean they do that today…

@theofficialintruder

Ай бұрын

It gives them haste which is why new york has so many skyscrapers

@spclanghorne4494

Ай бұрын

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.

4:10 they gave NYC a nerve opening???

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.

@rsonic510

27 күн бұрын

Yeah, but holy shit it does seem to suck in practice.

@OreoMiilkShakez

24 күн бұрын

Symbolically, it’s a genius design. But aside from that, way too much wasted space for it to make sense.

@kawaibakaneko

22 күн бұрын

​@@OreoMiilkShakezI guess it inspired the reflection pool? The building itself wasn't a good idea, too impratical

@Tenshii_Artii

20 күн бұрын

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.

The 9 1 1 towers got me cackling holy shit

@RainyCat5

2 ай бұрын

Same 💀

@LordBingus1

Ай бұрын

“Guys we really really need to make sure they never forget”.

@JokersNtheOddball

Ай бұрын

​@LordBingus1 "oh they will try... but we will make sure they dont😂"

@edoslacker

Ай бұрын

It is almost like a tribute to the terrorist attack itself instead of the victims

@worawatli8952

Ай бұрын

Imagined getting hit and killed by a car, and your tombstone is the brand logo of that car, it's that energy here.

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"

@antonioguglielmetti2661

9 ай бұрын

Yeah I wish they did that. I never saw the original twin towers

@ssg9offical

9 ай бұрын

Couldn’t agree more.

@AWPanzer

7 ай бұрын

It's like, you can hit, but we will stand up straighter and stronger, taller and more powerful.

@space_1073

2 ай бұрын

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.

@Semper_The_Player

2 ай бұрын

For me it looks kinda odd with the skyline?​@@space_1073

4:46 is just a spiderman action scene waiting to happen

@G-Cole-01

Ай бұрын

o r b

@WindiChilliwack

Ай бұрын

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.

@RlingCap-uk6rk

Ай бұрын

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

@LilBigJo7731.

26 күн бұрын

This joke is gonna get me in trouble

@RigoVids

26 күн бұрын

Some shit out of half life

What the heck would they even think about some of those designs some of them look like pool noodles?

@someweirdstuff1256

2 ай бұрын

3:22

@markpickford2882

Ай бұрын

Inr 😂😂😂😅😅😅

@geologyjoerocks

Ай бұрын

Were these architects in kindergarten? lol

@noahnorman6877

Ай бұрын

It’s like someone froze cooked spaghetti and stood it up to make some kind of art piece.

@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606

Ай бұрын

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

“We have to find his lair” 2:36 *the villain’s lair*

Nobody can replace Minoru Yamasaki's original World Trade Center design

@h.f6364

Ай бұрын

well they clearly got replaced

@Cvvbbj

Ай бұрын

@@h.f6364what he’s saying is the original towers are the best

@KnucklesWTD

Ай бұрын

@@CvvbbjI think they’re overrated personally, just two really tall boring buildings

@goodkrypollo1706

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@smallgraphics8914

Ай бұрын

@@goodkrypollo1706I agree they looked boring from afar, but they are so iconic and up close and inside you could see the beauty in them.

Half of these look like they belong in a art museum and not as a building 💀

@ChipiBanos

Ай бұрын

Goofy ahh tower

@michaelgregor1640

Ай бұрын

Whatever degree program or schools produce architects need to implement mandatory drug testing. "Put down the crack pipe, sir. You're designing buildings."

@nitroxylictv

9 күн бұрын

its not even art dude its just garbage

2:41 this is looks likes a supervillans lair 💀

@G-Cole-01

Ай бұрын

minecraft spruce wood planks

@megajuanph11

Ай бұрын

Brutalism AF

@daviddennen7479

Ай бұрын

Lord farquads Castle, think he's compensating for something? 😂😂😂

@AyrKid

Ай бұрын

Freaking megatowers from judge dredd

@WindiChilliwack

Ай бұрын

A man with a black suit with a goatee and it's something cody banks would barge into lol

Not the hashtag towers💀

@schizoposting9593

Ай бұрын

Tic tac toe towers

@justhere4637

23 күн бұрын

WHERE? WHEN?

@kidvillacy6652

22 күн бұрын

@@justhere4637 5:37

@f.u.m.o.5669

18 күн бұрын

Minecraft fence towers

@eduardocarranza4333

17 күн бұрын

@justhere4637 5:56

Surprised someone proposed golden twin towers and it WASN’T Trump. (He proposed aluminum ones)

@GustavSvard

11 ай бұрын

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.

@moreedcola6837

9 ай бұрын

Pretty good metaphor for the War on Terror and all the defence budget the US spent post-9/11

@letsgobrandon7297

9 ай бұрын

@GustavSvard: Regular size? He wanted to build them higher and stronger but to keep the towers as they looked.

@letsgobrandon7297

9 ай бұрын

@moreedcola6837: Terrorist won, they achieved multiple goals that day.

@GustavSvard

9 ай бұрын

@@letsgobrandon7297 but only like 10 floors taller. Not twice as tall.

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!"

@lewisgarrison860

2 ай бұрын

hahah!

@Been.Here.Since.2007

Ай бұрын

This comment is pure gold.

@rickisaak66

Ай бұрын

I know a guy named Al Harrington in Weekapaugh that has surplus of them. He's selling them cheap. ;)

@krunkle5136

Ай бұрын

Imagine cleaning the windows on those monstrosities.

@VOTE_REFORM_UK

Ай бұрын

More like 4:10

1:00 Damn can't imagine the towers 2 times taller. It's creepy literally

@Alby.

6 ай бұрын

It such a flawed design

@Arc_5

2 ай бұрын

@@Alby. Escaping the WTC using steps was hard enough. Imagine running down THAT

@space_1073

2 ай бұрын

I know. It looks even more precarious than the original towers, it's like we're asking to get attacked again.

@verspin

2 ай бұрын

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

@noobscoopsies1100

2 ай бұрын

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...

1:12 that's horrific

@kawaibakaneko

22 күн бұрын

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

4:09 “let’s just put a video game map marker here or smth” lmao

@nood1le

20 күн бұрын

Not even those are that obnoxious

ok what even is SPREAD- like i think it deserves its own new classification in the world of architecture😭

@G-Cole-01

Ай бұрын

cities skylines poop volcano aftermath

@ZedF-vz9ph

Ай бұрын

i think it's supposed to be the dust cloud (???)

@Wrennityy

Ай бұрын

whats the timestamp?

@RasendoriXProduction

Ай бұрын

@@Wrennityy4:26

@theman13532

Ай бұрын

literally though, what even was the goal??? how are they gonna put that in the city??? what are they putting in the city even???

4:26 wtf is that

@Final_SC

Ай бұрын

Okay who the hell even though of this

@chewy99.

Ай бұрын

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.

@tylxr1

Ай бұрын

@@chewy99.this genuinely made me laugh

@Linkyboygamer

28 күн бұрын

Someone had dirrehea

@P3ww-xv8lh

22 күн бұрын

Im pretty sure it’s where the debris from the WTC’s collapse went

I like how the first few were just "Twin Towers Deluxe" then "Twin Towers Gold" then "Twin Towers Long"

@kawaibakaneko

22 күн бұрын

I was half expecting to get "plated in gold 200 floors high Twin Towers"

@michaeledwards6683

7 күн бұрын

it’s like the twin towers are cigarettes

I love the idea of the new building having two empty spaces for the missing original building's

@mrandrossguy9871

11 ай бұрын

That’d be kinda Morbid to me tbhonest

@callmehmeme

10 ай бұрын

How would that be morbid?

@stickynorth

9 ай бұрын

Why it's what ended up happening now... Memorial waterfall gardens and they are beautful...@@mrandrossguy9871

@stickynorth

9 ай бұрын

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...

@lewisgarrison860

8 ай бұрын

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

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.

@martianbuilder5945

8 ай бұрын

It's because it's missing tower two. The diamonds on the top of tower two would make everything super iconic.

@jrperry1611

2 ай бұрын

I mean, it still stands out a lot because it’s so tall.

@sammyismuff

2 ай бұрын

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.”

@Sveta7

2 ай бұрын

@@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.

@lucasquintanilla1673

Ай бұрын

@@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.

“Let’s just pile three boxes of 3D usa flags and an antenna on top. There’s nothing more patriotic than that.” 1:17

@taffingtonboathouse5754

Ай бұрын

Murica! 🇺🇸

@rickisaak66

Ай бұрын

What happens when you design your buildings off of Minecraft,

@itsorenji

Ай бұрын

That’s like the design from that one Onion video.

@red-trinity7390

26 күн бұрын

MURICAAA 🦅🦅🦅🦅

@brendan5260

25 күн бұрын

That one seriously looks like crap. If I died in that attack I’d be mad.

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!?

@melonplaygroundfan4554

Ай бұрын

Me!

@lll.u

29 күн бұрын

@@melonplaygroundfan4554is your name jacob

@melarafam05

7 күн бұрын

*cricket noise*

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

@JonVoid37

10 ай бұрын

Need to make the footprint larger as they just look like giant pencils.

@officaljoshuajackson

10 ай бұрын

Agree it just looks too tall@@JonVoid37

@anabelmendoza318

9 ай бұрын

me too😇

@jaypaint4855

9 ай бұрын

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.

@Chris2745100

8 ай бұрын

@@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.

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

@hyperion6041

Ай бұрын

USA USA 🦅💥🇺🇸

@Super-BallSharp

17 күн бұрын

This comment is not getting enough attention, this is hilarious

@TheBoss.-tq2vm

17 күн бұрын

I’d choose “help I accidentally clicked invert color on the blueprints.” I dunno why, but I actually love the design.

3:42 nahh they really tried to build the world spagheti center ☠

@jr28778

Ай бұрын

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@nolimo2593

26 күн бұрын

​@@jr28778nahhhhhhh are you alright my man did you actually die

@jr28778

26 күн бұрын

@@nolimo2593 nah ma nigga , I be dead af doe bruh

@astrowulf

21 күн бұрын

We’re offending the Italians with this one 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🥶🥶💯💯

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.

@APerson-ni1gb

11 ай бұрын

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 ?!

@letsgobrandon7297

9 ай бұрын

@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.

@space_1073

2 ай бұрын

@@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.

@noggin6870

22 күн бұрын

​@@space_1073nor should it try to be. The originals were extremely ugly.

@space_1073

22 күн бұрын

@@noggin6870 Yeah they were pretty much just big gray blocks lol.

For all the complaining people do about Freedom Tower, it's way better than most of the other designs in this vid.

@stankbox

7 ай бұрын

By far... In my opinion anyway

@FakeMoonRocks

15 күн бұрын

It was always going to be two becoming one, because...you know. The agenda.

@nitroxylictv

9 күн бұрын

​@FakeMoonRocks communism

@tedlovejesus

4 күн бұрын

Foster and partners’s design is interesting tho… such a contrast to the original square column design

5:32 ok so now we’re just playing giant tic tac toe?

@PurpiedrawsWu

Ай бұрын

Cats game.

@45hr52

Ай бұрын

Are they trying to encourage more plane crashes?

@DakotaFord592

Ай бұрын

It looks sort of fascinating. Something harsh about it. Yet still beautiful.

@Nigerian_Countryball

Ай бұрын

##tower

@POG-ist

Ай бұрын

If I remember correctly, it is supposed to look like the rubble pieces after the towers collapsed. The skyscraper had that type of paneling and if you look back at old videos, that pattern is everywhere.

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

@lovecraftianwalrus4490

16 күн бұрын

All???? Even the first one???

4:20 "Let's make the city look like it was flooded with pee!"

@Hehehehehe414

28 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂 4:20

@Ethantheflagwarzguy

23 күн бұрын

wait where was the building?

@billie-ve_in_yourself6464

22 күн бұрын

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

@billie-ve_in_yourself6464

22 күн бұрын

@@Ethantheflagwarzguy it’s a long platform acting as a second story above the entirety of New York

@GV5

16 күн бұрын

​@@billie-ve_in_yourself6464 lol like wtf

5:23 Nah bro not the hashtag building 💀

@S0DDA

26 күн бұрын

stopppp😭

who tf thought it would be a good idea to build them again but just taller 😭

@SichoTech

2 ай бұрын

At least it looked least hideous of the rest dumb trash.

@mariekatherine5238

Ай бұрын

Really! Would you visit or want to work in them?

@n8thanwithan8

Ай бұрын

⁠@@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!

@pokefantom8588

Ай бұрын

I do

@dariush7525

Ай бұрын

I mean compared to all other godawful eyesore 'designs' on this list its not that bad

5:05 Ah yes, a alien nest.

@jimmyneutron129

18 күн бұрын

i knew it was the aliens since the beginning !

almost all of these designs are eyesores lmao

@randomamerican5065

Ай бұрын

Hence why none of them were built 😁

@teijaflink2226

Ай бұрын

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

@bod-7268

Ай бұрын

​@@teijaflink2226Seriously, like I need some context on whatever the heck S.P.R.E.A.D was

1:14 Frank La Commare's design is what I would build in Roblox as a 10 year old in a NYC roleplay game

What were these architects thinking 😭😭😭

1:07 Those look scary tall

@intreoo

23 күн бұрын

It is absolutely horrifying. Imagine being reminded of 9/11 every day except they’re taller,, so now more people can be reminded lol

@billie-ve_in_yourself6464

22 күн бұрын

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

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

@deathkitten7635

Ай бұрын

Probably terrible for airtraffic.

@8kayydub8

Ай бұрын

​@@deathkitten7635 I don't think they let airplanes fly there anymore.

@Handy-boi

Ай бұрын

@@8kayydub8they would fly way above it unless that go 40k feet in the air

@christopherrapczynski204

Ай бұрын

A really great blatant disregard to light polution, as well as just a waste of energy

@ethansanchez6267

Ай бұрын

​@@christopherrapczynski204 wait till I tell you about the Vegas sphere

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.

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.

@mrandrossguy9871

11 ай бұрын

“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 ❕❗️

@mrandrossguy9871

11 ай бұрын

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

@teijaflink2226

Ай бұрын

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.

@hexoson

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@Tr4ns1st0r

29 күн бұрын

@@mrandrossguy9871 Comments that capitalize every word are so, so painful to read…

2:37 my empire of wood

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"

@amentco8445

Ай бұрын

were you even alive for 9/11

@krystyls

Ай бұрын

@@amentco8445😭

@stillsimba7

24 күн бұрын

like 20 people survived and 30 including firefighters also i doubt their gonna go to that place again

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...

@stickynorth

9 ай бұрын

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...

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?

@lazstu19

Ай бұрын

You Made Me Laugh 😂😅

@RlingCap-uk6rk

Ай бұрын

It was supposed to be a giant platform. Like a second floor of the city. It was rejected for a billion reasons

@goochencore4128

Ай бұрын

​@RlingCap-uk6rk the people underneath would have no sunlight at all

@RlingCap-uk6rk

Ай бұрын

​@@goochencore4128 That's just one of the reasons

@gilbertbrown2636

Ай бұрын

@@RlingCap-uk6rk Do you have mroe info on this? it seems kind of interesting

6:29 Forgot to finish his build but it's alright

@S.J.C._Entertainment

12 күн бұрын

He couldn’t finish the Minecraft creative challenge 😭

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

@moreedcola6837

9 ай бұрын

They’re my favourites too. Shame they were never built.

Wtf is S.P.R.E.A.D. meant to be?!

@RlingCap-uk6rk

Ай бұрын

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.

@republic.of.sokoli

Ай бұрын

@@RlingCap-uk6rk a pile of sewage shit

@ariannasv22

Ай бұрын

Not to mention it just looks stupid

@axjagfilms

21 күн бұрын

Evangelion

lol the first one 😂 “Let’s submit the old design and see if they notice”

@lewisgarrison860

2 ай бұрын

Haha! To be fair it's slightly taller with a more open façade.

@thirdanimator3347

Ай бұрын

@@lewisgarrison860 Didn't it also not have the weird central structure similar to the original WTCs? But much rather a more stabilized structure?

@Mere-Lachaiselongue

Ай бұрын

It was still the most popular one with the general public.

@CB-ke7eq

Ай бұрын

It's about as inspired as anything else Trump has attached his name to.

@sekaiyoru01

29 күн бұрын

​@@CB-ke7eqI'd like to see you come up with a better idea then

4:09 The Architects HAD to of been drunk and just legit said "Fuck it, Im not even trying." Cause it's THAT BAD.

@MadDeuceJuice

Ай бұрын

Tbh I don’t think they got paid to do it

@Super-BallSharp

17 күн бұрын

You think alchohol does this? LSD does this!

9:12 “yeah I think giant tentacles will solve this”

@celavetex

18 күн бұрын

You accidentally put freedom tower instead 😭

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

@CashCreeep

Ай бұрын

are you this mentally ill?

@skipelen

Ай бұрын

"where is it? No seriously, where??" Its the whole thing, its a big net all across the city

@Guy96477

28 күн бұрын

@@skipelen wow just wow that’s the most stupid idea ever

@skipelen

27 күн бұрын

@@Guy96477 he isn't a architect he is an conceptual artists so that explains most things

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.

1:38 is actually sick!

@MuffinDaMoose

22 күн бұрын

Fr

@Chipmania42069

16 күн бұрын

it represents that you can’t replace the lives that were lost during 9/11

lmao imagine dying and your death site is replaced by some big ass spaghetti noodles

Definitely prefer Twin Towers 2

4:14 ok what is this..😶😶😶

People forget that 8:37 was the winner and at the end, it was the plan implemented for reconstruction.

@lewisgarrison860

Ай бұрын

Yep!

@MuffinDaMoose

22 күн бұрын

Oh I didn’t know that

@MuffinDaMoose

22 күн бұрын

Oh I didn’t know that

Some of them straight up look like it was designed by an 8 year old..

1:32 Love this design.

Loool xd, thanks, now the 1wtc doesn't look too bad🤣🤦🏻‍♂️

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.

0:43 "The Gold Towers"

The Nathan McRae one is actually pretty cool

Sometimes I wonder how some people are architects/engineers with ideas like these

1:56 bro really said "make em get more planes"

@edcola6671

Ай бұрын

they goddamn subdivided

@ConnorBieszk

25 күн бұрын

Bro got favorited 💀💀💀

@MuffinDaMoose

22 күн бұрын

✈️✈️🗼🗼🗼✈️

1:32 I was like “that’s kinda cool” until the top view was revealed

@noggin6870

22 күн бұрын

The holes in the building are where the original towers were. That one was just a memorial.

I thought for a minute that one of the buildings looked like a standing pair of pants.👖

5:27 Bro realy said: #

@ZipZapTesla

Ай бұрын

#

I would have made Twin Towers but fully reflective glass and have a light system that can change for different occasions, with a special one only appearing on the anniversary of 9/11. The only difference in placement would have been using the empty space between the original towers footprint, so they can still have a memorial with pools like today. And instead of OWTC have the museum built there.

@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606

Ай бұрын

Nah special light system just means some ignorant person would use it to fly something like the Palestinian flag and be completely tone deaf at what that means in context to the buildings

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

4:09 girl what

The visual impact of the twin towers was not only that they were the tallest buildings, but that there were two. The new single WTC 1 gets lost in the mix of other buildings. The single building leaves no visual effect even though it is taller than the originals (1776’).

As you say? The simplest the better. Minimalistic design never gets boring.

0:00 Literally the same thing lol

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?

@nandoplayeetc4980

Ай бұрын

Cause planes still existing

@mega_blox44yt19

Ай бұрын

It would had taken another long ass time to make

im so glad we went with the final design- its interesting while still looking like an actual building and seen in person its just beautiful

In retrospective, they should have made a design that would minimise the damage from a high-speed flying object making contact with it.

ngl very underrated channel, nice video

@lewisgarrison860

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

2:58 Why does it look like a rusty PS2

@violetlunna

Күн бұрын

LITERALLY WHAT I WAS THINKING

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

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.

Do you know who proposed the Twin Towers in gold? I’d love to look more into it

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.

This video has shown me that I am a better architect than most architects

What really annoys me about most of these designs is that apparentely these architects are much more bothered about "proving themselves" by creating the most "unique" (actually ridiculous) designs and not give a damn about respecting Yamasaki's original design, which has become one of the, if not -the- most recognisable landmarks in the US. I thnk what those architects and also lots of (probably mostly younger) people, who like to shit on the original Twin Towers' design don't get is how genius the original complex was. Yes, one of the original towers by itself would've been rather boring looking, but the way both were positioned together with that certain offset made them so interesting to look at, because they'd look different from any angle, even though both towers were pretty much just two mostly indentical, tall boxes. These towers were really complimenting each others' simple design and thus created an interesting design alltogether. For me personally, the original World Trade Center has always been the embodiment of beauty in simplicity. And so, in my opinion the only reasonable solution would've been the Twin Tower II.

@SuperSecretSunshine

8 күн бұрын

Well said, they just want to write themselves into the history books by getting their silly designs approved. Rebuilding it would have been correct not only architecture-wise, but symbolically as well.

Just build another Freedom Tower already???

I would love to have possibility to buy and install on computer your maps of New York and Chicago with possibility show all your variants of building from this and previous videos, that could be cool :).

Incredible work as always, Lewis!

@lewisgarrison860

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

2:36 "Citizens of NYC, we are proud to declare that the Clay Brick has completed construction!"

6:14 I thought they had that before the one world trade

@32123ABCBA

Ай бұрын

Theres smaller beacons to the side