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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat an awful looking edifice!
So we memorialize one of the worst tragedies our country has ever experienced by building this?
The Reflection pool surrounded by the trees plus the museum is wonderful homage and was all that was necessary...
The skyscraper represents nothing but our obsession with being the best, biggest and most expensive...
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/12/21421315-one-world-trade-center-crowned-the-tallest-building-in-us?lite
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Location, Location, Location....
TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)But you're totally right. What a monstrosity.
maxsolomon
(33,252 posts)Man's noblest aspirations?
A skyscraper is an economic venture 1st and foremost. Money talks, bullshit walks, and guess what the "Freedom Tower" part of the reconstruction was?
Blame the developer and their taste based on the Lowest Common Denominator. They picked one overrated Starchitect, Leibskind, booted him, and wound up with this compromise.
But look around you at post-war Generica. This is par for the course.
northoftheborder
(7,569 posts)The original architect's plan was scrapped, lots of controversy over it - one could write a book on that part of it's design, (one could say it was a design by committee). All of the really progressive new design is taking place in the Far East - places like China, Dubai.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)obtain as much real estate as possible going up...
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)So ugly, they were scary..
rudolph the red
(666 posts)They were like anti-architecture.