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Here is where you can find the most frequently asked questions about the vision.

Do people still like to see the Twin Towers rebuilt?

Even today, many Americans and people worldwide who were surveyed by Chryslar expressed that they would like to see the Twin Towers come back into existance.

In 2005, MSNBC conducted a simple poll where 80% of 3483 respondents agreed to a new Twin Towers plan. A front cover from a newspaper from July 14th 2002 read "Half of New York wants the Twin Towers rebuilt"

When would this project be realized?

It is aimed for completion and opening by 2040, or 2050 latest.

Is this project really feasible?

Yes, when done correctly through official methods and channels, a single person's vision can and has became reality, through many examples such as Disneyland (Walt Disney was in fact not a qualified architect).

Chryslar is a Christian, and he believes that God intends for this vision to become reality. He has encountered many miracles in life, and his faith that "Through God, anything is possible" is upheld.

Are there other cities where this could be built?

While Chicago is the ideal place for the World Tech Center, Chryslar has considered possible alternate cities to host it in a contingency scenario (that things somehow don't work out for the primary). These include but are not limited to:

New York City - immediately west of Hudson Yards in Midtown Manhattan. This would involve building out into the hudson river and creating a massive cofferdam wall around the site down to bedrock 20 meters below (between Pier 76 and 66) and like an inverted bathtub, pumping out the water over several months.

Houston, Texas - the state is experiencing a tech business boom. For this option, the city would upgrade its height restriction. While a definite site has not yet been established, it would possibly go in the downtown area (likely a 350 by 350 meter square).

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas - in a similar manner to Houston.

How would this new purpose be beneficial?

Put simply, the World Tech Center carries the legacy of the original World Trade Center in its function as a hub for a specific purpose. The latter is for international trade and finance.

This vision takes this purpose to the STEM field - a hub for international science and technology development and networking.

How much would the project cost to build?

It is currently estimated to cost $30 billion USD, plus or minus $10 billion.

Why didn't they rebuild the Twin Towers?

Contrary to not uncommon speculation, the reason why the twin towers were not rebuilt because of being 'insensitive'. It was acutally due to stakeholders' decision within the joint partnership of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Coropration (on behalf of Silverstein Properties - the leased owner of the site). They internally decided to "move forward with a completly new future" and chose to build the "Freedom Tower" which was and still is critizied today.

Are there other Twin Tower buildings around the world?

Yes, there are strikingly similar buildings that currently exist in the United States and around the world (mainly in China) that are directly inspired or loosely based from the original World Trade Center in New York. They are:

The Ruitang Plaza Twin Towers in Wuhan China, built in 1996. Its 105 metres tall and features a striking resemblance of the WTC tridents.

The Zhejiang Gate Towers in Hangzhou, China. Standing approximately 300 meters tall and expected to be completed in 2026.

China WTC Tower III near Beijing. Completed in 2010 and standing 331 meters in height.

AON Center in Chicago, standing 362 metres high (the tallest in this group) and completed in the same year as the New York World Trade Center opening - 1973.

BOK Tower in Tulsa Oklahoma. It was opened in 1976 and standing 203 m, and indeed it was designed by the same WTC architect - Minoru Yamasaki. He was hired because the developer’s CEO wanted a replica of Yamasaki’s Twin Towers design in Oklahoma, citing his impression with the New York WTC.

The new Spectra building at the University of Hertfordshire College Lane Campus, Hatfield, UK. Built between 2021 and opened in late 2024, it’s loosely based from the WTC according to a promotional document press kit from 2021. It’s resemblance are notably the rectangular windows, vertical gray facade, and all steel skeleton. It’s 25 m high.

Is it a good idea to rebuild the Twins? Is it ethical for the affected families?

Yes, it is a good idea to restore the Twin Towers back into American life (especially with this bold new purpose and design). While it is impossible to guarantee everyone would be comfortable, recent discoveries from online archives and the Twin Towers Alliance have uncovered wavering support for the rebirth of the Twins. While it was aimed orignally for the Twin Towers II by Herbert Belton and Ken Gardner, to this day the alliance still received statements. Today, it has more than 9,000 supporting comments and signatures from 9/11 familes, relatives, and the wider community of firefighters, armed forces' veterans, former business tenants, and other people from around the world. The archive has been printed in its entirety and is currently being compiled on this website.

To be clear, Chryslar does not intend to downplay the tragic events of September 11 whatsover, but rather heal from it by raising the point in being not afraid of the past. The quote from the Twin Towers community states "by not rebuilding those towers, we are letting the terrorists win".

There are many case studies where society has picked itself up from tragic loss of life - such as the Space Shuttle Challenger and Columbia disasters where the shuttle program was corrected of faults and resumed (Ronald Reagan contacted the astronaut's families of Challenger and they expressed their wish to continue the program). Another example is the Titanic - which despite having more than 1500 lives lost, has gained widespread fascination and cultural influence such as lego sets, films, and museums recreating the interior and exterior.

To conclude, it is perfectly reasonable, ethical and logical to resurrect the Twin Towers, and its a win-win situation where it has a bold new purpose in this new political climate.

What safety features would the towers have?

The World Tech Center's Twin Towers will be engineered to be one of the most robust, safest and protected civillian structures on Earth. The buildings consist of three main elements that improve massively from the legacy:

The central core will be made from Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC). It will comprise of a 29 by 41 m (95 by 134 ft) rectangle with 1 m thick walls with plenty of reinforcement rebar and girder plates to connect the floor beams. This material has superior compressive and impact strength and it's commonly used to build nuclear reactor contaiment buildings (being able to absorb a plane impact theoretically up to 1,610 km/h or 1000 mph). The core would be made from slip-forming techniques just like many modern skyscrapers today.

The floor beams in question are a traditional I-beam design with superior fireproofing expanding materials. The I-beam has an excellent second moment of area - which minimizes its deflection when loaded. It has a web depth of approximately 1 m (3ft). They will be bolted to socket plates on the central core, and to brackets on the perimeter columns. The beams are made from A514 structural steel - the strongest civil engineering grade of steel in industry, with a yield strength of 700 MPa. Typical structural steel is usually half that figure.

The outer wall (or perimeter columns) are also made from A514 structural steel, and consist of seven major columns on each of the four sides, each a vertical box column 1 m (3ft wide) and varying thickness from 5 cm (2 inches) to 20cm (8 inches) nearer the base. The 19 tridents connect the foundation pallets past the lobby, to structural transfer trusses on the 6 and 7th mechanical floors. These use a statically indeterminate structural configuration (where internal forces calculation require stiffness matrices instead of the traditional equiliberum equations, thus regarded as safer). The corner columns are cast from UHPC concrete with steel girders embedded within.

All structural steel will have the latest in fireproofing materials that are rated for at least six hours.

Internal safety and security features include but not limited to:

4 large stairwells in each tower, equipped with a pressurized ventilation system to keep smoke out.
Sky lobbies containing a permanant firefighting crew stationed 24/7.
Fire hydrants on every floor which are connected to the top floor's liquid tuned mass damper (to serve as an emergency reservoir), as well as foam sprinklers and fire extinguishers throughout (in case of a laboratory fire).
A fire service elevator with plenty of backup generators, with its own pressurized lobby.
Fire-rated safety doors throughout the core and floors.
A high-tech extendible platform near the sky lobby where firefighting drones can deploy and land.

Do you have any strategies of how you would defend it against threats?

There are plans of adding an aerial threat detection and neutralization system on the roof of the Science South Tower (the one with the spire). This would consist of a radar tracking system, radio interception and communication (to validate the threat) and a last resort anti-aircraft surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) or a multi-megawatt laser defense weapon (the type currently in use on specific US warships). This would fall under federal regulation and is currently being debated.