# The WTC site finalists have been chosen
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 5, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930 "2003-02-05T12:48:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/1 "2003-02-05T12:48:00Z")
According to [this article](http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030205/D7P0ERB01.html), the two finalists are the Libeskind proposal and (God help us) the THINK proposal. The Libeskind building is OK, but the THINK structure still has the thing that looks like an airplane stuck in it :dubious:
What do the Teeming Millions think?
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/2 "2003-02-05T13:55:24Z")
I don’t like either design. But the last time I was in NYC was 1966, so it really doesn’t make any difference to me what is built there.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/3 "2003-02-05T14:42:36Z")
Jesus, what horrible, crappy, vile designs. In my heart of hearts, I was hoping they’d come to their senses and use the [Gaudi](http://www.modbee.com/24hour/nation/story/729592p-5328847c.html) design, after all . . .
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### Author:  [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/4 "2003-02-05T14:56:38Z")
I believe I agree with Eve.
But if it’s gonna have to be between those two, the THINK design is a travesty.
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### Author:  [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/5 "2003-02-05T15:34:17Z")
I don’t want to see either of those built there. I’ve often felt that people would be wary of working high up like that, now I see others agree. They shouldnt build something so tall, so office-like…and especially not the airplane-bridge-thing. I think they should concentrate more on memorial, less on business…though being from NY I realize they need to put the office space somewhere…
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/6 "2003-02-05T16:08:16Z")
Godammit, who can I write to to protest those huge steaming piles of crap? I’m gonna have to look at them every day, and I’m damned if I’m going to do so quietly.
Anyone got names, addreses, of the boobs in charge of this?
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/7 "2003-02-05T16:29:24Z")
Beyond hideous. What the hell are they thinking? I don’t know why they have to rush to a decision…they should take more suggestions until something worthy of the Big Apple is thrown into the ring. Not that my opinion counts, being a Chicagoan and all, but Jeez!
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### Author:  [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/8 "2003-02-05T16:53:30Z")
Good God, New Yorkers are being such babies about this whole design thing. What else is new. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/9 "2003-02-05T17:24:19Z")
Yeah, that’s right . . . We should just let 'em toss up any godawful piece of crap they want to! I mean, it’s not like we’ll have to _look_ at it or anything; we can just walk around facing north all the time.
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### Author:  [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/10 "2003-02-05T17:28:31Z")
You know what, I was wrong to post that here. I don’t want to hijack this thread, so go [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=160962) to respond if you feel the need.
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/11 "2003-02-05T17:31:51Z")
I guess **cuauhtemoc** wouldn’t mind a bit if they built the World’s Tallest Eyesore in New Jersey :rollyeyes:
A woman in the articles makes an excellent point: even if they go ahead and put in the tallest building in the world, it’ll only be the tallest for a few years before someone else builds something taller.
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/12 "2003-02-05T17:32:54Z")
Oops, simulpost.
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/13 "2003-02-05T17:33:10Z")
Well, I think that the question of whether it’s attractive or not is a very difficult one - remember, the Eiffel Tower was considered a hideous eyesore in its day (and so, may I remind you, were the original WTC towers.)
However, the THINK one is not just ugly, but in bad taste, as far as I’m concerned. A damn airplane? Why don’t you just put up a giant animatronic billboard with the original WTC towers being stomped by a Monty-Python-esque giant foot? That’s kitsch where kitsch is inappropriate.
I don’t mind the other proposal, but I don’t see how the airplane one made it to the finals.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/14 "2003-02-05T17:58:34Z")
It’s sort of the crucifix principle, I think.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/15 "2003-02-05T18:16:39Z")
re: THINK –
That’s what it’s supposed to look like when it’s _finished_??
ugh.
They must’ve picked that one to deflect any criticism of the other, which is starting to look quite good due to the contrast.
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### Author:  [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/16 "2003-02-05T18:27:42Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by AHunter3 \*
> \*\*re: THINK –
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> That’s what it’s supposed to look like when it’s _finished_??
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> ugh.
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> They must’ve picked that one to deflect any criticism of the other, which is starting to look quite good due to the contrast. \*\*
Somewhere (book, movie, TV, damifino?) I once came across the theory that when pitching an advertising campaign to a client your best approach is to present as few options as possible, preferably only two, with one of them so bad/off the wall that the client will choose the other. Maybe that’s what they’re doing here.
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### Author:  [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/17 "2003-02-05T19:10:33Z")
I agree with the OP - THINK is hideous, Libeskind is passable. I’d much rather see Gaudi, though.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/18 "2003-02-05T19:18:26Z")
So, can we get up a letter-writing campaign in favor of Gaudi? Who’d we write to, and where?
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### Author:  [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/19 "2003-02-05T20:48:47Z")
[Berzon!](http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock020503.asp)
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wtc-site-finalists-have-been-chosen/152930/20 "2003-02-05T20:55:37Z")
The three most useful gentlemen to complain to seem to be:
Louis Tomson, President
John Whitehead, Chairman
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10006
Jack Sinagra, Chairman,
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
225 Park Avenue South, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10003
I’ll work on a letter, and post it here when I’m done . . .
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