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The Original Tower

This is a sketch of Libeskind's original plan for the rebuilt World Trade Center site. For the new design, Childs succeeded in including a lattice structure filled with energy-generating windmills at the top of the building. He likened the suspension elements of the new design to the Brooklyn Bridge, with the bottom of the building "torqued or twisted."

(Photo: AP/LMDC)