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Following the cleanup of the site at Ground Zero, several architecture firms, including SOM, Norman Foster, and Daniel Libeskind, were gathered for a design competition to rebuild the World Trade Center site. Each firm created vastly different ideas, but Daniel Libeskind's master plan won as the winning design. His concept called for 5 towers to be situated around a memorial park, where the heights of the towers would allow sunlight to always reach the park at specified times (marking the attacks on the towers), with the centerpiece being the Freedom Tower. Through various design iterations, the number of towers was reduced to four, and the overall design of Freedom Tower changed significantly as security concerns took an almost (understandably) obsessive precedent. The final design called for four towers, each designed by a different architecture firm, with 1 WTC being designed by David Childs of SOM (who also did 7 WTC adjacent to the site), 2 WTC being designed by Norman Foster, 3 WTC being designed by Rodgers Skirk Harbour and Company, and 4 WTC being designed by Fumihiko Maki, a memorial and museum designed by Michael Arad of Handel Architects, Peter Walker and Partners, and David Brody Bond of Snøhetta, Liberty Park, a performing arts center, and a PATH Transportation Hub designed by Santiago Calatrava. Currently, the park and memorial were opened in 2011, and the museum was opened in 2014, 4 WTC was completed in 2013, 1 WTC is structurally completed, and set to open on November 3rd, 2 WTC's foundation and structure has been brought up to street level, 3 WTC has recommenced construction and should be finished in 2017, the transportation hub is scheduled to be finished in 2015, and the performing arts center's design is still being debated upon. Financial concerns, design debates, and construction techniques that were much more intensive than traditional buildings have delayed this project tremendously, and will not be completed until 2020 at the earliest.

My interpretation of the site includes the four towers (1, 2, 3, and 4 WTC) and the transit hub. Due to personal reasons, i did not include memorial pools or the museum. In front of the transportation hub and 1 WTC i included a small reflecting pool with a test of a redstone contraption that i plan on using in a larger scale in a future project. If you want to ask me about why i chose to omit the pools and would like to hear my response/opinion on the WTC site, feel free to send me a PM and i'll gladly respond. Understand that the buildings themselves are incomplete, and at a later date, i plan on adding a design for the lobbies of the towers as well as developing the green space which i am working on a design to turn into a park, so these will be subject to change in a future update. Also note that 3 WTC is of the pre-2011 design, which had the crossbracing, something unfortunately in the current design was omitted. I wanted to keep that design alive in my interpretation.

The schematic contains all 5 buildings. Here are their dimensions:
1 WTC: 29 x 29 x 230
2 WTC: 30 x 60 x 201
3 WTC: 29 z 55 x 181
4 WTC: 51 x 35 x 147
Transportation hub: 97 x 47 x 48

Using High Rossferry City Texture Pack
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05/26/2016 10:32 pm
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Mech265
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Great job!
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06/10/2015 5:30 pm
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Ryer
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You may have to update this with what BIG did to it. You introduced me to BIG and I loved them, but what they did is absolutely atrocious.
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06/10/2015 6:03 pm
Level 67 : High Grandmaster Architect
jduartemiller
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I read up on some of the articles. While they are in talks with BIG, they haven't fully hammered out anything, and BIG just seems to be going off on a design binge in hopes of getting the deal. Knowing how the Silverstein company butchered the previous designs, there will certainly be some design omissions. I read up on some of the reasons Foster was ousted as the architect for the tower, and it seems rather odd to do so this late in the game (as the tower was only delayed in construction for budgetary reasons). It's a shame, the prettiest tower of the four will never be built. It was elegant and sleek, and it will not be changed in my rendition.
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01/02/2015 6:15 pm
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Mele Keshpalin
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Wha-wow how... on... that is.. it's... OMG THIS IS AMAZING! How did you make those incredible renders with reflecting glass!?
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01/02/2015 6:53 pm
Level 67 : High Grandmaster Architect
jduartemiller
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There is a program called Chunky that renders minecraft worlds. It gives all glass and some other blocks a reflective quality. Then to get that effect, i tinker with the lighting position to get it to reflect really vividly. Here's a blog i wrote a while back that explains some of my rendering processes
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11/28/2014 4:37 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
endguy14
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Have you ever considerd building some builds from cities like Doha qatar, dubai, Sanghai and other world cities with spectacular skylines? I was just wondering cause ive been trying to find certain builds but there are not that many that ive been trying too look for in regards too buildings internationally
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01/02/2015 6:55 pm
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jduartemiller
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Sorry for the delayed response. I have a few from Dubai and Shanghai, and a few more from other places in China and many other countries. What buildings are you looking for? If i can find a place for them in my city, i'll gladly build them
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11/27/2014 12:14 pm
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endguy14
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Hi i love your builds. For a future build can you build The shard (london),one 57(NYC),comcast center (philadephia) , and the hudson yards complex currently under construction in (NYC) I hope you'll consider 
Thanks
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11/27/2014 2:00 pm
Level 67 : High Grandmaster Architect
jduartemiller
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These are some good suggestions. I didn't know too much about the Hudson Yards project, so i'll look into it. Thank you
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11/08/2014 4:50 pm
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Frenzy light
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But its empty, the builds are empty. It would outclass any other build if it had interior but no fun when its not furnitured. Thats my opinion. Sorry, but the builds looks nice
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