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    May 22, 2005

    Rebuild the Twin Towers, and Do it Right (The “Freedom Tower” WTC Design Must Never Be Built)

    The previous design for a new World Trade Center is an abomination, as I’ve noted before. Take a look at it:

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    Can you believe that? The proposed new buildings appear to lean, as if they are about to fall over. They’re a reiteration of the threat of the terrorists to the people of the city: they say, "Look out, these buildings are about to fall on you." And they say it for as long as those buildings remain standing. The people of New York would pay to have them torn down. The new design is a nightmare. It should never be perpetrated on that great city. It should never be built.

    Trump wants to see the Towers rebuilt in a fashion similar to what they were, but stronger than ever:

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    May 17, 2005-ALBANY – Donald Trump, escalating his war against the "empty skeleton" Freedom Tower, will offer his own design for a rebuilt 111-story "World Trade Center" at Ground Zero at a press conference tomorrow.

    "We have a beautiful model that has been built, a very big model," Trump told The Post yesterday.

    "We took the original World Trade Center design, brought it into the modern age, made it more beautiful than ever before, made it one story taller, made it higher lined, and took out the architectural weaknesses that were there.

    "We also strengthened the building internally so that what happened on 9/11 could never happen again," Trump added.

    ..."The design for the Freedom Tower is an egghead design, designed by an egghead, which has no practical application and which, frankly, didn’t look very good.

    "I’ve gotten great reviews on my buildings. I’m somebody who believes strongly in great architecture and this [the Freedom Tower] was a design that is just not a good design," Trump added.

    ...Trump said he had a "huge" reaction to his initial proposal to dump the Freedom Tower, receiving over 1,000 letters in support of rebuilding the WTC.


    Update 6-30-05: The new design for the Freedom Tower is more acceptable.

    Update 9-13-06: More on the new design: Four new towers instead of two!

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