How New York Rebuilt The World Trade Center - NYC Revealed 

As a NYer I was actually working in VA at the time when it happened. I immediately called all my family to check on them. Some could see the smoke from their houses. Driving on the highway, the sky seemed so eerie not seeing any planes at all. I still get emotional when I see the video and I still get emotional every time I go down to the reflecting pools. There is tremendous energy there *edit was for using speech to text. Fixing some errors

Like a phoenix from the ashes. In a lot of ways, the Freedom Tower is like a metaphor for America. Even though we lost one thing, we gained a new one. The Twin Towers will always be remembered and one World Trade Center is now, like the Statue of Liberty or the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of the New York landscape. When tourists visit, they go to the top of the building and take pictures of it, which in it of itself, is remembering those who died that day.

1776 feet should never include a 300+ foot spire. The building is just not as impressive as it could have been. Many of the earlier designs were much more impressive

As heartwarming as it is the World Trade Center has been rebuilt and lower Manhattan isn’t so empty. It’s painful seeing what used to be and how the new WTC is a sad skeletal imitation of what used to be, not rebuilding the twin towers was a colossal mistake and shows how damaged the city and country remains 20+ years on. Th wonky saving grace is the memorial and pools which imo adequately represent what a memorial should do.

I still think WTC should have been rebuilt with twin towers and it has proven there is enough space to build new twin towers at least the same size as the original ones without standing in the way of the WTC memorial pools and the museum, except for maybe the shadows depending on where the sun shines.

My God a second 911 could happen just make it available in USA

The twin towers were such beautiful buildings, they didn’t deserve to be brought down by a bunch of heartless, cowardly terrorists. I was only 3 years old on the day they were destroyed. My mom and dad hoped to take me to visit the Twin Towers as I got older, but sadly that never came to be because of 9/11. I think my 4 or 5-year old self would’ve been scared at first by their tall, gigantic, monolith-like appearance, but eventually I would fall in love with them as time would go on. Just imagine how different movies and TV shows from today set in NYC would be had 9/11 never happened. We would’ve seen Iron Man, Spider-Man, etc. waltz around the Twin Towers defending the city from bad guys in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We would’ve seen them in music videos set NYC such as Eminem’s “Not Afraid”, and Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah”. They also would’ve still appeared in shows such as Law & Order: SVU, The Supranos, and Sex and The City.

I was 12yo in middle school. I remember that day. Everything was silent for weeks. I remember the terror alerts were on red or high alert. Still fresh but never forgotten.

Yes, we need TWIN towers again. I love the memorial as "inverted towers" (bottomless reflecting pools) with names permanently etched. I just don't like the one tower not quite tall enough and which doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the skyline.

Truly is an amazing building. Rest In Peace to the victims of the original WTC buildings

I was born 3 months after the tragic events, but my mom always told me about this tragic day when it would approach, and i honestly got into architecture and learned how to read books in school because i was so eager to know what exactly happened on that day and what america was going to do about it. I'm so happy and proud of the rebuilt site, the one world trade center building alone is truly a middle finger to terrorism and at the same time a beautiful example of the american spirit never dying

I cannot fathom what it was like to stand under the twin towers at ground level and just look up.

Good thing Larry had a dermatology appointment the morning of 9/11. He usually had breakfast with tenants on the top floor of the North Tower.

One world trade center sucks!! We need the towers back, I think that's what the people we lost would have wanted. I see the skyline everyday and that tower sucks!! We let them win, we are wounded!

Man I remember when they fell it was 5th grade for me we watched that stuff on live tv so no edits and to see the WTC come back is a blessing 💯

Nothing saying New york like the original twin tower's. Midtown's Billionaires row look's very pretty although it over shadow's the rest.

The World Trade Center, Retro & Modern has and will always be one of my favorite landmarks in New York City, Im glad to see that the site is doing well 21 years after that awful day.

I remember watching the towers being built and my brother and I waving and yelling to our uncle (thinking he could hear us), he was a steel worker on them, never knowing many years later I would know 3 people who perished in them

Love NYC . The city that never sleeps. The city that overcomes and rebuilds and disaster. A city of all cultures, food and language. 🙏🏽🇺🇸 Respect to all the family that lost loved ones. We all mourn your pain 🙏🏽

The design process got a little crazy. I remember some of the earlier plans called for roof mounted anti aircraft guns.

I don’t try to be the pearl clutching type, but it’s pretty jarring going from solemn “my sister died, and I stand upon the graves of thousands” to pop music overlaying a biography of the guy who built the place

I really hope the original design for Two World Trade Center is built. I do not like the new design and it just doesn’t fit with the other buildings

Am so glad they really pic up that design for 1 WTC.the freedom tower is beautiful.what i think if 2 WTC keep on hold then make the same Freedom tower so we can have are twin towers back together with the others buildings I think 5 WTC should be banish to a museum.

To anyone that survived 9/11 (incl. EMS workers) - please know that I am so thankful that you are still here with us and that you are still able to keep on going! You are loved, appreciated, and are *very important* to us!

I was 10 when this happened and remember like it was yesterday. I was in NYC when I was 1 year old and have pictures of and on the Twin Towers. I loved them since I was a kid and they're the reason why I love architecture. When I saw it on the news, I was like "oh they'll fix them when the fire is out". I still can't believe they just crumbled like that and I'm not into conspiracy theories, but the fact that a private investigation has never been allowed, it does seem very odd.

We forget so fast who the enemy is for one moment all Americans united and dropped there differences, yet we fight each other internally again. People lose scope of real issues and standards..

U guys didn't even wait until the 11 lol

That was such a horrible time in a lot of people lives and impacted some many people I still until this day come to tears remembering seeing people jumping from the buildings and the fear people had seeing this all unfold before millions of people eyes so sad to this day !!!!

I’m happy with the current freedom tower. I wasn’t a big fan of the original design.

The channel NEO released a video on this very topic which, in my opinion, is vastly superior.

Wait, there are free artist lofts on the 80th floor of one of the buildings??

I was just a little kid when it happened. All I remember from that day was my parents picking me up from school. It took me a few years to find out about this.

Seeing how that lady can say hello to her sister before coming down to paint was really touching.

I was born August 26th 2001 but wasn't able to leave the hospital until 9/11. My parents had infant me as they were getting baby food in a Walmart when they saw the towers falling on the tv.

I remember watch tower collapsing, and nobody even commented that for another 15 minutes.

Still think the originals should be built because it still feels empty. It makes you feel defeated in a way, because they won. Sure, rebuilding them wouldn't bring back the ones that were lost, but why have the victims remeberance be kinda shadowed in defeat cast to be forgotten to time slowly? They would be more popular then ever if rebuilt. Maybe they didn't want the impact of the event to be lost thinking people wouldn't care as much if they were rebuilt, but I think that's the opposite, and they could've done it in a really respectful way. I would've liked if they did move them because they shouldn't of been put back right there, but they could've (before they built everything else) moved them back a bit. Still could've had the pools and everything. Could've had them lined up so when the pool lights are on they kinda cast a blue shadow making the towers from the right angle look almost ghostly poking through the light, and could've even surrounded the buildings with that effect so any angle you look it you can see it. They even could've instead of putting the antenna on the north tower put a giant ass flag with all the names of everyone lost on it mixed in with a design of the American flag, or something. Instead, we get 2 pools that you can't even see in the day unless you go there. It makes people kinda like me who never saw them forget they ever existed. It also takes away from the true size they really were which would also remind people of, not only impressively huge they were, but also how terrible it must of been having to fall, and be stuck to die in something that high up. That is just something the pools don't do, nor does the new wtc as you don't think about it. A memorial like that would've always let you know they existed, and if done right could remind people more of that day, and that the towers stood, and can stand again though healing, and determination, but the people that died that day can never be replaced, and I don't feel rebuilding the towers would make anyone feel like those were replaced. If anything, it might even bring feelings in harder being able to see the buildings be replaced, but not the people. Seeing those towers again would always remind everyone of that day, and of those people no matter where you are in New York, but now you look and most probably who were not here before that day forget a lot they ever existed. This is why I do not like the new building, and them constantly saying they rebuilt it, because you didn't. Sure, if looking at it right you kinda see the towers in the design, but if you don't actually know what your looking at, then it just looks like every other modern building covered in fancy glass around the world. Sure, they gave us a museum to see pieces of the towers, and pictures of the day, but outside of ground zero you don’t really think about it if you weren’t alive then to know what was before. The Statue of Liberty can be seen from several different places, and even if time has caught up to it in terms of hight, it still is really visible, and it gets the point across our country wants you to be reminded about. That’s why the towers should’ve came back because it’s more impactful to remind, and be more then just a memorial. It would be a symbol. Just like the White House, and any other important buildings like the capitol. We rebuilt the White House once, so I don’t see why the towers should be left to be forgotten in time. You can argue the freedom tower is that, but I just don’t see it. Just looks transparent, and most of the proposed memorial was removed.

I really would've loved to see the One World Trade Center be scaled up to 2,736' tall including spire, (the height of both twin towers in a single building) since then it would be the tallest structure on Earth upon completion just like the originals were, and would absolutely dominate the NY skyline. I also really liked the idea of rebuilding the twins in some capacity. The design we got was a huge compromise, and for as much as I love the Freedom Tower I just wish it would've been bigger to show the terrorists more of a statement.

The scary part is even tho we are now much more advanced then we were back then.... it doesn't mean it's not impossible for this to happen again.....

That new thing is the new world trade center????, God, demolish the Freddom Tower and rebuild the Twin Towers.

But is not the same and never is gonna be those towers they were a symbol of advancement of civilization

Neo & Cheddar posting about the exact same topic hours apart. Coincidence, or is one of them ripping the other off? 🤔🤔🤔

Donald Trump is ridiculous! He criticizes Daniel Libeskind as if he also understood architecture. The Twin Towers II are shit, thank God they weren't built, outdated architecture! I liked the Freedom Tower better with the original design, but I also love the one that was built.

new york doesn't feel the same without the twin towers 😢

1993 should been warning enough and avoided being there

Rudy Giuliani went from being America’s mayor to a tan sweating lunatic

Meat of the video starts at 5:26.

Its heartbreaking to think that my cousin is somewhere inside of the towers

They should of built another twin towers in my opinion it looked amazing

Vacancy is still an issue for the complex in general, right? A lot of empty spaces, though I seem to recall that may have also been an issue with the original towers as well

Funny enough my best friend was born on 9-11-2001. From what his parents said, the doctors and nurses were paying more attention to the TV while she was about to give birth.

i like the memorial and the new wtc building but i think it needs a twin.

The original Liebskind design was fine, people forget that it was designed with the angled rooflines so that on the anniversary the sunlight will shine down into the memorial. The buildings as built ignored that.

I can only dream of being a good enough artist to be able to work in such an amazing place

Part of me thinks they should of rebuilt them exactly as they were but stronger, as a mark of strength and resilience of the American people. The other part of me is glad they didn’t, as this is also a mark of disrespect to those who died and an act of erasing what happened. It will never be the same, so it shouldn’t be forced to appear that way. I feel Freedom tower does seem a bit lonely, standing alone, they need to give it a twin, it would complete the Trade Centre and New York skyline, I think. Life is constantly changing into something we want it to be, to something else, we just have to ker going and move forward. Remember but don’t look back. Such a tragic shame and still, 21 years later, devastating!

7 years to build a skyscraper smh Dubai built a whole city in the water in 2

I would love to see the city shining with silver glimmer of OWTC.

It's too bad it wasn't even attempted to rebuild as a world's tallest building

I still wish they rebuilt the originals, the one world trade center is beautiful but the look of two identical towers towering over the city is just something else

Thanks, nice video. I have to plan a visit. I have only been to NYC once, when I was a kid in the 1960s.

How many sacred grounds and buildings of other countries have USA destroyed?

Put these buildings somewhere else there not the world trade center anymore. It's a shame.

They started rebuilding by first scrapping the crime scene and shipping it out of the country as fast as they could, before analysis

They should have rebuilt them exactly as they were

Hmmm why neo also just uploaded a video about this??? With the same title

They teared us down and we came back stronger

I hope they use the first design for 2 world trade centre The diamond shape 💠

I have no idea why they did that, but i have a question Why didn't they go for the Empire State building? Im just wondering if, because they would want to destroy towers, the empire state building would be one of them Don't hate me just asking questions

Larry and his family were not present that Monday morning which usually they are for work, still fascinating too me after 23yrs

Libeskind’s design was the best

Wow 😍 Gret video .Keep it up my friend.Big like from ITALY👍👍

The One World Trade Center does look good. Saw it when I went and I think it looks more modern and a good way to move forward.

I liked the twin towers, they made the new york skyline so recognizable. Trump was right, should have built them back the same.

New WTC looks like some crappy ass boring skyscraper, that literally belongs to Ghuanzong.

Doesn't make sense. There's a documentary with an American man who said (and others said) was the designer and architect, not this man here.

I remember it from Home Alone 2, Lost in New York. Too bad I never got to see it in person.

they replaced them it was not rebuild

11:45 Excluding the mast, or what is called "vanity height", Central Park Tower has a higher roof.

This waterhole is such a waste of resources.

I think the single tower is a sign of surrender, we should have built the tower back 1 story taller.

WTC 2 and 5 are still on hold

I think the current Freedom Tower is not as beautiful as the original World Trade Center Twin Towers

The new 1776 feet-high "1-WTC" tower was built on the site of the former "5-WTC" low-rise office building, that was destroyed on 9/11 when the North Tower (the former "1-WTC") collapsed and destroyed most of it.

Demolition! No one can fly that low than hit the building precisely 😜

I have this weird thing with 9/11 where, when it happened, I was too young to understand or largely even remember what was going on. But, I still remember this feeling of doom and shock that blanketed the world. And I don't even live in the usa, that's how I feel how big of an impact this event had on the world

I take pride in the fact that my father was part of the team that worked with Yamasaki in designing the original twin towers. He worked with him in the 40's and again in the 60's as an architect / structural engineer. As an apprentice at Albert Kahn and Assoc. in the 30's, Albert Kahn asked my father a question that will be forever be cut in stone in my mind. The question was: "What is the Difference between an Architect and a Draftsman?" The answer: "The Architect is the one with the client!"

I visited the WTC 2 days before 911, one day I will publish some of the last pictures of the WTC one day

I had no idea a WTC was rebuilt till now. no one even talked about it.I was 8 years old when i watched the 2nd plane hitting the towers on live TV. we were just about to go to school n eating cereal. This tiny 8 inch Tube TV was always on in the morning with my parents watching the morning news. we ended up going to school for a few hours but then they closed it and we all went home. I had no idea what we were even watching just that we didnt have to finish school that day. i was so confused, all the teachers kept saying we were under attack and didn't want to let us go to recess to play on the playground i just knew we were thousands of miles away and it didn't make sense to me.

Why is there an islamic spire at the top of the freedom tower?

there are no "signs" its called Apophenia the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas) What psychologists call apophenia-the human tendency to see connections and patterns that are not really there-gives rise to conspiracy theories.

Me indigna que no hicieran las torres gemelas otra vez

I know he is crucial to the story and the development of the new World Trade Center but next time let's not give Larry Siliverstien a platform

5:46 I'm really glad that from all those ideas, they chose Freedom Tower. Can't imagine anything else to stay on there on this place.

the new world trade centre never impressed me much.. I don't agree with Trump much, but rebuilding the whole thing would have been so awesome

And over 50 tons of asbestos filled the air and floated over Long Island.. got rid of it cheaply.... the gold went to Singapore.. lotsa gold..

That’s a symbol to worship nimrod smh

I remember the day they came down. It only occupies about 30 seconds in the memory (8 days after my sixth birthday) I have of my 27 years of life to date, but I feel privileged to be able to say that I remember that day. The originals should have been rebuilt in my opinion.

I guess now adays u can feed people any bs & they'll buy it... Evolution backwards

It’s not just a symbol of New York. It’s the architectural embodiment of the United States in all it’s glory

guess whats the time of the year again.......

You couldnt understand what was happening? Maybe all that asbestos and costs? Just taking a wild guess.