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Originally Posted by Bill Ditnow
Actually the whole building, regardless of what sort of toothpick they stick on top of it, is an exemplar of the unchecked greed of Wall Street that drove the country to ruin in 2008. Soulless and charmless, without a leavening speck of creativity or humanity, it will be speak, sadly, to our era, even as the Empire State building, the Chrysler Building and the Woolworth building spoke (boisterously and joyously and optimistically) to their eras, eras when America's best days lay ahead and not in the rear-view mirror.
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While I'm not crazy about the new look, I must ask: you DO know that those earlier buildings were built in the era of supposedly rampant capitalism, while the FT is the result of Big Government, a/k/a the NY/NJ Port Authority, right?
As for the new look: maybe it could be salvaged with the use of more prominent cables, like JMGarcia once suggested? To give it a more sculptural look?