# Gaudi design proposed for WTC
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 23, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468 "2003-01-23T16:20:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/1 "2003-01-23T16:20:32Z")
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2687565.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2687565.stm)
Looks pretty damn cool IMO.
What do Statesiders think about it?
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### Author:  [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/2 "2003-01-23T16:27:24Z")
I love Gaudi - mysister and sought out as much of his stuff as we could when we were in Barcelona. I always thought his designs seemed organic…almost alive. The proposed design looks like a giant sex toy to me. I like it.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/3 "2003-01-23T16:47:42Z")
I LOVE this! Especially in comparison to those stupid designs that were rolled out last month.
Gaudi was a freakin’ genius. Why should Barcelona keep all the goodies to itself?
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/4 "2003-01-23T16:50:11Z")
I love Gaudi too, but that particular design is a bit… like it’s from the future or something.
Having said that, if it were built, I would be in awe.
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### Author:  [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/5 "2003-01-23T17:09:06Z")
Looks a bit like the [Gherkin](http://www.aztec-city.com/article/ZPic2.jpg) in London (by Foster).
Seems unfair to throw a ‘new’ design into the mix, seeing as the other six have been jumping through all the necessary hoops for some time now.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/6 "2003-01-23T17:15:09Z")
I thought it was terrific—the _only_ WTC design I’ve seen that I’ve liked.
It’ll never happen.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/7 "2003-01-23T17:22:14Z")
I just stumbled on that picture this morning, and I love it. We need more buildings crowned with starbursts and atomic rings.
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### Author:  [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/8 "2003-01-23T17:48:15Z")
Sorry to be contrary, but IMHO Gaudi is an over-rated hack. A few of his works in Barcelona are extraordinary (the Quarry building and Sagrada Familia, most notably), but for the most part he’s developed a reputation as “cool because he’s kooky” – the same sort of notoriety Frank Gehry is profiting from (more deservedly than Gaudi, again IMHO) these days. Gaudi’s importance was the road he paved for modern architecture, not his actual works, which have been eclipsed many times over in the years since he got plowed over by a trolley.
So no, keep Gaudi out of NYC.
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### Author:  [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/9 "2003-01-23T18:15:34Z")
I think it is awful. I wouldn’t want to see that building anywhere. I don’t really like any of the other plans either. I imagine that no matter what they do or don’t put at the WTC site many people will hate it.
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### Author:  [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/10 "2003-01-23T18:33:04Z")
Is there a word for that feeling I sometimes get from old science fiction, nostalgia for a future that never happened? That’s what this building would express, and while I think that’s a perfectly appropriate sentiment for the WTC site, it’s probably not what the developers want.
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### Author:  [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/11 "2003-01-23T18:38:40Z")
I like Gaudi very much. However this design enters my list as my least-liked Gaudi. However, again, it beats the other designs for the site I’ve seen.
I would love a Hundertwasser WTC design. I like Gehry. I would like to see a Gehry design. What’s wrong with kooky? “Baby, you gotta kick that Corboursier habit!” (actual grafitti seen in the stairwell of U of O’s architecture department). And a Richard Meier design would be nice. But in the end it will look like an I. M. Pei office design, inevitably, or some 16th generation international style box like “serious architecture should be.”
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### Author:  [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/12 "2003-01-23T18:41:09Z")
Yep, definitely a cool design…
FOR A VIBRATOR!!!
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### Author:  [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/13 "2003-01-23T18:42:53Z")
[Sheri Tepper]An erection suitable for a parade ground.[/Sheri Tepper]
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/14 "2003-01-23T18:50:39Z")
It is quite stunning.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/15 "2003-01-23T19:23:43Z")
_Somebody_ has been watching _Metropolis_.
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### Author:  [@gonzalo\_de\_cordoba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzalo_de_cordoba)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/16 "2003-01-23T19:31:41Z")
> [@](#):
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> Somebody has been watching Metropolis
Nahh. Fritz Lang may have been watching Gaudi, though…
I’d like to see this building, but not downtown. I think it would look silly there. Somwheres Midtown, perhaps, IMHO.
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### Author:  [@Clint\_in\_Wichita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clint_in_Wichita)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/17 "2003-01-23T19:32:16Z")
This would be the most amazing skyscraper the world has ever seen, if anyone had the balls to actually build the thing:
[www.wtc2002.com](http://www.wtc2002.com)
IMO it is heads and shoudlers above the other proposals.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/18 "2003-01-23T22:08:33Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Clint in Wichita \*
> \*\*This would be the most amazing skyscraper the world has ever seen, if anyone had the balls to actually build the thing:
>
> [www.wtc2002.com](http://www.wtc2002.com)
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> IMO it is heads and shoudlers above the other proposals. \*\*
Oh please. That guy is a complete lunatic. Just read some of the stuff on his page:
[quote]
Our Cyber City will have a State of the Art External Security System which at this stage evolves around “Sound Waves” which has the capacity at a specific frequency to repel flying objects up to a five mile circumference.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/19 "2003-01-23T22:33:06Z")
I think this would look _good_, and I also think it would make New York look good.
It’s a fine companion piece to the Empire State Building.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudi-design-proposed-for-wtc/150468/20 "2003-01-23T22:43:46Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \*
> \*\*_Somebody_ has been watching _Metropolis_. \*\*
Well, even though **gonzalo de cordoba** has pointed out that this design pre-dates _Metropolis_, I have to say that _Metropolis_ was the first thing that popped into my mind as well. It’s a damn site better than just about everything else that’s been proposed. My favorite is still the buildings giving the folks across the Atlantic the finger.
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