August 13, 2005
Now THAT Is A Building
What the WTC designers SHOULD have been thinking...
Breathtaking, yes? This is the new Fordham Spire skyscraper planned for the Chicage lakefront. And the kind of amazing, jawdropping building that should stand where the WTC did. Instead, the reconsutrction at the World Trade Center site is undergoing that most American of processes - Death By Committee.
But people still count. Families of the loved and lost are undergoing that older, nobler American process - intrepidity and perseverence in the face of adversity.
And while familes and citizens struggle to keep the WTC site free of self-loathing navel-gazing flagellates who think the 9/11 site is the best location to peddle their self-afflicting wares, outcry from families, New Yorkers, and most of America has resulted in yet another revision of the WTC Freedom Tower.
Better than it was:
Awful. What is that on the top? A chicken coop? King Kong's monkey bars? The tower now extends to the full height of the original, rather than abruptly turning into the worlds highest jungle gym...
Now, just add another tower just like it...
Posted by MEC2 at August 13, 2005 09:00 AM | TrackBack