This is, generally, a view from the northeast.]]> Looking back, I don't think this proposal is appropriate for the site or for New York. Symbolically, it's a powerful gesture; but the site deserves something more wonderful even than this.]]> There are two sets of twins: the taller, perhaps 90 or 100 floors tall, along Church Street; the shorter, 60 or 70 floors, along Vesey Street to the north. The taller set serves as a gateway between east and west, a doorway for the rising and setting sun.
The footprints of the original towers are preserved, encircled by reconstructions of the original psuedo-gothic arches of the exterior structure to a height of eight or nine floors, but with no glass or roof. One acre-large space will have a lake; the other, a plot of pure green grass. Both contain a viewing platform in the center.
In addition to the preserved footprints, this proposal allows for almost three acres of open space, including a large plaza with the main memorial in the center. I'd like to see the Globe reinstalled in its damaged state.
The proposal includes somewhere around 11 million square feet of commercial space; a museum (southeast corner of site); ample open space with a memorial and, hopefully, plenty of places for people to visit and to reflect in peace; and, because the site is so vital to New York, a good deal of retail space and a hotel are incorporated into the scheme--both appropriately shielded from the main plaza where serenity, reflection, and respect must be observed.
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Chaque fois que la nostalgie
Tombe sur mes yeux
Je vais sur les quais à chansons
Et j'y attends le matin…

Une lumière trompe mes yeux
En remplissant la mer dans des photos déchirées
Les rivages s'ouvrent ensuite
Et on entend la voix d'un enfant…

Mes yeux s'arrête
A un autre rivage
Transformé par les années
Une colère du passé se déchire encore une fois
Et sans pitié
Je fais tomber les oiseaux distraits dans la mer.

Chaque fois que la nostalgie
Tombe sur mes yeux
Je vais sur les quais à chansons.

Üzeyir Lokman ÇAYCI
Traduit par : Yakup YURT
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