Posted Mar 30, 2009, 12:03 PM
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I'll give my thoughts on the latest WTC "controversy" later, but here's another opinion from the NY Post...
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03302009...957.htm?page=2
FORGET 'FREEDOM'
GOOD RIDDANCE TO WTC MONIKER
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A more honest name would be "Dysfunction Tower" -- reflecting the political and bureaucratic paralysis enabled by Pataki's lazy and unfocused meddling.
Moreover, a project so presumptuously titled ought to be, as a matter of common sense and fairness, manifestly superior to its neighbors that will bear such prosaic names as 4 World Trade Center/150 Greenwich St.
But 1 World Trade Center will dwarf them mainly in its height. The smaller towers designed by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki will all be at least as architecturally arresting as 1 WTC's soaring, tapered octagonal form.
That's no reflection on 1 WTC architect David Childs, who also designed the splendid 7 WTC. He was forced to craft and re-craft a "Freedom Tower" to conform to shifting political winds -- a saga that saw the project uprooted from its original planned location, re-drawn top to bottom to meet 11th-hour "security" concerns, and then unloaded like a hot potato from Silverstein to the PA.
Let freedom ring -- but let 1 World Trade Center, at last inching out of the hallowed earth, rise and thrive.
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