Cuozzo Slams Trump: Part II

Also, the fact was that the WTC was at full occupancy when the 9/11 attacks came, and the mall underground had undergone a renaissance over the last few years. The site was well regarded and conceding office space now is a short sighted idea. Building a single Freedom Tower, and then lining the rest of the site with lowrises is not the way to go because it means the amount of space able to be dedicated to all the uses (museums, cultural space, memorials), have to be shoehorned into an ever-smaller space.

Twin Towers or any other design that builds two major skyscrapers (Foster's Kissing Towers, for example) would alleviate the need to shoehorn. It opens up the maximum amount of space for those other purposes. Anyone who can read a map can figure that out on their own. It's time that those involved in the WTC reconstruction saw that as well.

Does the City, Port Authority, and all other political entities involved want to restore the skyline and office space, or do they simply want to build something that is a simulacrum of a skyline and relegate the reclaimation of the office to some point in the future.

Here's another issue. One of the features of the current master plan was that the Freedom Tower would go up first, and as office space is needed, other structures would be built along the periphery of the site.

Well, how would you like to live and work in a workzone that is never ending and would likely drag on for decades? Why would anyone want to relocate their business to such a place? Then, there's the question of how a museum and transportation hub would function under such limitations.

If anything, a twin towers concept is practical because the construction would be far more limited than any other proposal to rebuild office space - and this is the same issue that in part doomed the proposal to bury the West Street section adjacent to the complex. Battery Park City didn't want to be home to a decade long construction zone, which would cut it off from the rest of the city. Oppositon from the local community offset any possible benefits - additional parkland, and memorial space, although the tunnel was finally discarded when Goldman Sachs refused to build a building near where the tunnel terminus was proposed.