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Originally Posted by Arthurmiles
The tapering wouldn't be so much problem if people change the design of 2WTC and make it an essential twin of 1WTC, because the twin element doubles and boosts the presence of the tower.
Here's a crude pic of what it would look like if 2WTC is changed to the twin of 1WTC sans spire. The feeling of weakness from tapering is solved.
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It will never happen because the foundations are totally wrong, the current Tower 1 design would be hideous as twins, and it would be a far bigger waste of money for a pipe dream with no real sense behind it. Just because the old complex happened to be twins does not mean the new one should be twins just for the sake of twins. This tower was designed to be alone, not have a twin. All logic and reasoning would be lost behind the design. Twin Towers should have been planned 10 years ago, in the shape of the old ones. Not as the current design is.
I think anyone who has pushed for a twin of this design doesn't have a great understanding of architecture. They just want one so that the "terrorists don't win" (whatever that's supposed to mean these days...)