World Trade Center Unveiled (house, cover, 2003)

Rockafella Skank · 12-22-2003, 12:43 AM

The newly designed WTC has been unveiled and looks really great to me.

They're said to begin next year. What do you think of it?

OzzieJess · 12-22-2003, 07:49 AM

it looks like alot of glass... i'm from a a place that is 10 times smaller... n yeah even sydney aint that big... it looks kinda cool i guess it will grow on everyone...

MobilizeTerror · 12-22-2003, 08:56 AM

It looks great, but it looks like if a plane hits it, it will shatter to pieces.

Rockafella Skank · 12-22-2003, 10:23 AM

It's suppose to echo the look of the Statue of Liberty. I think it does a great job in that.

MobilizeTerror · 12-22-2003, 10:32 AM

IamAlejo · 12-22-2003, 01:56 PM

looks pretty cool to me....but someone else said...thats not gonna take much of a beating (hurricane or plane)

MobilizeTerror · 12-23-2003, 09:23 AM

It looks like it wouldn't take much to me, but I don't think anyone is that dumb to build something that is so important and not make it strong enough to hold up if a hurrican comes or if a plane hits it. After 9-11 you wouldn't think they would do that, but then again they could have stopped 9-11 all together from what I here.

Rockafella Skank · 12-23-2003, 10:22 AM

The WTC should have been able to sustain the plane, but it had a weak structural design. When it was built the 747s were not around and therefore there was no reason to construct a building that would be able to sustain one. The building was able to sustain crashes from planes that were the biggest at the time, but not ones that were not yet built.

~~Big_Al~~ · 10-10-2008, 11:28 AM

Anybody else think the new WTC design looks like something out of Earth: Final Conflict? Sorry, nerd side coming out...

~~Fyrenza~~ · 10-10-2008, 11:41 AM

i would imagine that they use polymers

the same type used for bullet-proof glass or better

btw -- some of the polymers are actually bomb proof

once its on the glass
it becomes part of the glass

one of the big selling points
i always thought
was that the weakness of your home was shifted from something relatively easy to breach
-- a breakable glass window
into something not so easy nor quick to get through
-- the walls

with a plastic brick house covered in that stuff
you'd have a nice bomb shelter with all the comforts of home

12-22-2003, 12:43 AM	#1 (permalink)
Rockafella Skank Management Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Connecticut Posts: 609	World Trade Center Unveiled The newly designed WTC has been unveiled and looks really great to me. They're said to begin next year. What do you think of it?

12-22-2003, 07:49 AM	#2 (permalink)
OzzieJess Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Perth Australia Posts: 44	it looks like alot of glass... i'm from a a place that is 10 times smaller... n yeah even sydney aint that big... it looks kinda cool i guess it will grow on everyone... __________________ "life is a annoying, pathic, side effect of being born"

12-22-2003, 08:56 AM	#3 (permalink)
MobilizeTerror Punk Rocker Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 317	It looks great, but it looks like if a plane hits it, it will shatter to pieces. __________________ Everyone has music in them. Only the talented have the ability to share it with the rest of the world. Here's a thought; let's stop labeling music and fighting over what genre a certain band is, and start listening to whatever pleases our ears no matter what anyone thinks of it! ;)

12-22-2003, 10:32 AM	#5 (permalink)
MobilizeTerror Punk Rocker Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 317	__________________ Everyone has music in them. Only the talented have the ability to share it with the rest of the world. Here's a thought; let's stop labeling music and fighting over what genre a certain band is, and start listening to whatever pleases our ears no matter what anyone thinks of it! ;)

12-22-2003, 01:56 PM	#6 (permalink)
IamAlejo Muck Fusic Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 1,575	looks pretty cool to me....but someone else said...thats not gonna take much of a beating (hurricane or plane) __________________ a man, a plan, a canal, panama

12-22-2003, 10:23 AM	#4 (permalink)
Rockafella Skank Management Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Connecticut Posts: 609	It's suppose to echo the look of the Statue of Liberty. I think it does a great job in that.

12-23-2003, 09:23 AM	#7 (permalink)
MobilizeTerror Punk Rocker Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 317	It looks like it wouldn't take much to me, but I don't think anyone is that dumb to build something that is so important and not make it strong enough to hold up if a hurrican comes or if a plane hits it. After 9-11 you wouldn't think they would do that, but then again they could have stopped 9-11 all together from what I here. __________________ Everyone has music in them. Only the talented have the ability to share it with the rest of the world. Here's a thought; let's stop labeling music and fighting over what genre a certain band is, and start listening to whatever pleases our ears no matter what anyone thinks of it! ;)

12-23-2003, 10:22 AM	#8 (permalink)
Rockafella Skank Management Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Connecticut Posts: 609	The WTC should have been able to sustain the plane, but it had a weak structural design. When it was built the 747s were not around and therefore there was no reason to construct a building that would be able to sustain one. The building was able to sustain crashes from planes that were the biggest at the time, but not ones that were not yet built.

10-10-2008, 11:28 AM	#9 (permalink)
~~Big_Al~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 15	Anybody else think the new WTC design looks like something out of Earth: Final Conflict? Sorry, nerd side coming out...

10-10-2008, 11:41 AM	#10 (permalink)
~~Fyrenza~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: high above the Republic of Texas Posts: 216	i would imagine that they use polymers the same type used for bullet-proof glass or better btw -- some of the polymers are actually bomb proof once its on the glass it becomes part of the glass one of the big selling points i always thought was that the weakness of your home was shifted from something relatively easy to breach -- a breakable glass window into something not so easy nor quick to get through -- the walls with a plastic brick house covered in that stuff you'd have a nice bomb shelter with all the comforts of home