Twin Towers 2
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Twin Towers 2, or Twin Towers II, is a proposed plan designed by architects Kenneth Gardner and Herbert Belton to rebuild New York City's World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This plan has in the past been publicized as "The Plan of the People" and "World Trade Center Phoenix".
The plan is an alternative to the current official Memory Foundations plan. Twin Towers 2's centerpiece is two towers closely resembling the original Twin Towers, but with various technological, safety, and structural improvements, and slightly taller than the originals. Twin Towers 2's supporters see this as a superior alternative, particularly on psychological, emotional, and political grounds, to Freedom Tower, a single tower that, while technically taller than the original Twin Towers because of a skeletal latticework and broadcast antenna, has fewer inhabitable floors, and is therefore shorter for practical purposes than the destroyed buildings.
Many Twin Towers 2 supporters see the Freedom Tower's replacement of the former Twin Towers with a single shorter tower as a symbolic chastening or humbling in the face of the terrorist challenge, a surrender to fear, and a failure to fully rebuild an iconic landmark of New York and America.
The Twin Towers 2 plan's most prominent supporter to date is Donald Trump, who endorsed it in a press conference[1] on May 18, 2005. Others include pundits Deroy Murdock of National Review, John P. Avalon [2] of The New York Sun, and Nicole Gelinas [3] of The New York Post.