World Trade Center news updates and discussion.

[SugarD]

It will still be used for business. As with any business building, you cannot simply leave half of the entire building uninhabited for security reasons. It would be a waste of capital, and we all know how executives view their capital.

As such, I am betting they are finding some way to shoot down any plane that would dare come at this rendition of the WTC.

It has been specifically stated that they will not have people working that high up on purpose. It will simply be for show on the upper floors, and may contain plants for the very few that travel up there.

[JDC]

Would that apply for all the other tall WTC buildings too?

[SugarD]

Would that apply for all the other tall WTC buildings too?

Prior to the attacks, there were only 2 tall WTC buildings. Now there is 1.

[Allison]

They are building more than one tall structure, you know.

[JDC]

They are building more than one tall structure, you know.

This. The renderings show more than one building that extends to heights which can still be targeted by airplanes in the same manner as 9/11.

[Ted]

Sugar commented that one building is currently standing not that others wouldn't be built along with it.

[SugarD]

There also will not be something that is immensely as high as the Freedom Tower, which would be very difficult at the heights the other buildings have planned to crash a plane into. They won't be clear targets as before. Please also bear in mind that if every tower in the world above a certain height were targeted by terrorists, you would have thousands, if not millions, of possible attack locations. :roll:

[ElMartu]

This. The renderings show more than one building that extends to heights which can still be targeted by airplanes in the same manner as 9/11.

Guess what, every tall building can be targeted by airplanes

[SafetyMoose]

I dont really get the point of not putting offices in the top, yet they are building an observation deck on the top? if they were worried of a second attack why would they put an observation deck up there...

[SugarD]

I dont really get the point of not putting offices in the top, yet they are building an observation deck on the top? if they were worried of a second attack why would they put an observation deck up there...

Well it's not so much a worry of people being up there as it is the amount of people that would have to be evacuated in such an incident.

[SafetyMoose]

Well it's not so much a worry of people being up there as it is the amount of people that would have to be evacuated in such an incident.

its just proof that terrorism works.

[=AV=Craft]

How the f**k are they even going to rent out office space in this thing D:

I for one would not be working in that thing, I could not live the sheer fact of what the building represents, let alone its a replacement for a terrorist target.

It's what America stands for. We are not afarid of terrorists. The attacks didn't seperate us if anything it made use stronger.

[Gimli]

People won't be inhabiting it past a certain floor height to prevent a repeat of the past. The building was originally planned to be the tallest in the world as a symbol to show that the United States got back up on it's feet, and continues to stand tall against anyone who tries to hurt it. Everything in the higher floors will simply be filled with decorative plants and other little things that the general public wouldn't be packed within.

Apart from a couple floors, the top floors will be inhabited, it would make no business sense to fill them with plants... In fact, most floors have already been leased for 25 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tenants_in_One_World_Trade_Center

[JDC]

Guess what, every tall building can be targeted by airplanes

Obviously. What sets the taller buildings apart is the increased danger / hassle of evacuation in case of an attack, not to mention it would make no business sense to leave the upper floors with plants, as mentioned previously.

Hence my query about security systems. Working at the 100th floor isn't exactly the safest location, but you'd feel a lot safer if your tower had missiles to shoot down any incoming planes.

[Oliver]

Working at the 100th floor isn't exactly the safest location, but you'd feel a lot safer if your tower had missiles to shoot down any incoming planes.

Are you suggesting they turn the new WTC into a SAM facility?