Block Quote by Cesar Pelli

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its…

— Martin Filler

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're…

— Donald Trump

Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the…

— Jerry Saltz

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it…

— Joyce Brothers

The World Trade Center was the target for the world, and they hit the target.

— Howard Lutnick

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

— Richard M. Nixon

For native New Yorkers and pilgrims alike, there have been few things more heartbreaking about the protracted aftermath of Sept. 11 than the garish…

— Norah Vincent

I lived in Manhattan for 12 years and grew up outside New York City, so that was definitely how I saw the center of…

— Margaret Brennan

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's…

— Paul Goldberger

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not…

— Allen Klein