Johnson has said that his early concept for the project was something more modest than Orbit, along the lines of "a kind of 21st-century Trajan's Column", but this was dropped when more daring ideas were received.
ジョンソンが言うには、彼の初期の構想は『オービット』より控えめで、「トラヤヌス記念柱の21世紀版」といった類のものだったが、それはより大胆なアイデアが出されて破棄された。