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Originally Posted by Bill Ditnow
This image, for me, encapsulates (one of) the fundamental aesthetic/symbolic inadequacies of the new tower: seen from a distance, it looks like Tower One of the old World Trade Center. The faceted triangles, etc., whatever one thinks of them, are mostly lost. And so what it really looks like is that they rebuilt one of the Twin Towers but forgot to rebuild the other. Thus the skyline is only half restored.
This could change if they build Foster's nearby tower with the diamond roofs, and in that case we would have, as someone here nicely pointed out, fraternal twins if not identical twins. But as I understand it, Foster's tower may never be built.
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For me, this building is part of a new skyline and stands alone (or rather, with the rest of the buildings in the new complex, if 2 and 3 even get built). Although it is reminiscent of the old North Tower, I don't get the same impression that it's missing a twin. Perhaps if only the South Tower had collapsed on 9/11 and the North remained standing, I think that building would definitely have looked odd by itself because it was meant as a twin set. But I think the skyline is being restored to a new normal, with these new buildings.
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That is should and will happen. The economy can't stay in the sinker forever.
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