Twin Towers 2

After the events of the September 11 attacks in 2001, several ideas about building new twin towers were discussed online and in the media. After the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) launched the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition in 2002, seven architectural groups were commissioned by the organization to create a proposal to restore the Manhattan skyline. Out of the seven, four groups proposed building twin towers though they were not identical to the original design by Minoru Yamasaki. The twin-towered Team Twin Towers design was planned to be entered into the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition, but was unable to complete the design before the competition closed. == Initial emergence (2004) ==

The initial planning of the project first surfaced in the media in 2004 with the group behind the project called Team Twin Towers, Inc., composed of activists and designers collaborating on the early design of the model. The team was initially led by television producer and co-founder of the team Randy Warner, and the design led by engineer Kenneth "Ken" Gardner and architect Herbert Belton, who was an architect for the original World Trade Center. The two towers were planned to be 112 stories tall. Team Twin Towers was one of several groups pressuring government and development officials to alter the reconstruction plans of the Libeskind master plan chosen by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Team Twin Towers spokesman Jonathan Hakala says the original Twin Towers "were among Earth's few 'instantly recognizable' landmarks." During a talk radio broadcast, a caller asked whether Trump was involved or going to be involved with the "new twin towers". Though Trump at the time was not involved with the Team Twin Towers project, he became a sponsor of the project's design in the later year(s). Trump said the following about David Childs and Daniel Libeskind's design of One World Trade Center: == Early development (2005–2007) ==

In 2005, publicity for the project increased, with Trump officially supporting and sponsoring the project. Support for the project increased due to the criticism of the Childs-Libeskind design and accusations from 2002 revived against former New York Governor George Pataki, accused of cronyism for supposedly using his influence to get the winning architect's design picked as a personal favor for his friend and campaign contributor, Ron Lauder. In May 2005, Trump appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews to discuss the proposed Childs-Libeskind Freedom Tower design. While Matthews asks Trump about whether an empty site is better than the proposed design, he quickly responds, criticizing Libeskind, "It was designed by an egghead architect who really doesn't have a lot of experience of designing something like this. And it's just a terrible design." adding that the new signature building shouldn't look "cowardly." Before the statement, Ferrer issued a rebuilding plan that called to spread out the 10 million square feet of office space around the five boroughs so it "decentralized." Greg worked for Euro Brokers on the 84th floor of the South Tower and Lauren was a partner for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 105th floor of the North Tower. Along with him was engineer Ken Gardner and architect Herbert Belton, Trump presented the Team Twin Towers designed twin-towered complex model. The Freedom Tower plan, according to Trump, "looks like a junkyard, a series of broken-down angles that don't match each other. And we have to live with this for hundreds of years? It is the worst pile of crap architecture I've ever seen in my life." Construction of the Freedom Tower began in April 2006, which jeopardized the Twin Towers II project from being built on the site. == Later developments ==

, the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex, in 2022 Criticism arose in 2008 that the rebuilding of the World Trade Center was taking longer than expected. Though now renamed One World Trade Center (formerly Freedom Tower) was under construction as well as the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, it was still proposed to halt One World Trade Center and build the Twin Towers II project. Bjarke Ingels, who was selected as the architect for Two World Trade Center's new design, stated that he would have rebuilt the World Trade Center if it were up to him. He commented, stating that "They were such a big part of the identity of Manhattan. When you watch Tony Soprano drive out of the Holland Tunnel, he can see the towers in his rearview mirror. They looked very strong." == Notes ==