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Originally Posted by Roadcruiser1
The Twin Towers were most certainly not loved before 9/11. A good documentary to see this would be New York: A Documentary Film (New York and the Center of the World). They were hated when they were being built. People hated them for their size, their looks, the barren Austin Tobin Plaza, and their narrow windows. If you were to ask any New Yorkers before 9/11 if they loved the Twin Towers a majority of them would have said "They are gray buildings with no meaning except to dominate Lower Manhattan", or they would say "They only mostly had a presence and that is it". Another way to put it was what my cousin said before 9/11 as a New Yorker "They are two gray pencils". Then after 9/11 came they quickly gain so much meaning. They in the end were loved more after their death then them in their life. However there are a few exceptions like me who always considered the Twin Towers beautiful even before 9/11, and there were certainly people that felt it like Philippe Petit, or George Willig, or Dan Goodwin. They also loved the Towers and most certainly like me there was a feeling of something lost after they were destroyed.
I guess you can say One World Trade Center is riding the same current. Hopefully it will never be destroyed in a 9/11 style event.
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Everything you say is totally normal: it a sort of 'death syndrome" : people or things are by far more appreciated after their disparition.
Same for titanic, the perfect example of how an unsignificant ship became a legend after it sinked.
For 1WTC, i suppose the new tower has been designed to resist plane attacks, or parking bombs (that's the reason of the concrete base, i imagine)
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