Appraisal: Fear in a soaring tower

[Freedom_from_Chains]

By Nicolai Ouroussoff The New York Times

Architectural review of the New World Trade Center plans.

I particularly liked the following paragraph in this review as I think it succinctly articulates where America currently is.


"What the tower evokes, by comparison, are ancient obelisks, blown up to a preposterous scale and clad in heavy sheaths of reinforced glass - an ideal symbol for an empire enthralled with its own power, and unaware that it is fading."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/29/news/critic.php

[whistle]

1. Allow nothing to be build on ground zero until all the truth....

...about 9-11 comes out. Let the site be a reminder of the greed, lies, deceit and corruption that surrounds 9-11.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. Excellent choice of words!!!! n/t

[AllegroRondo]

3. My name is Ozymandius, king of kings

look on my works ye mortals and despair.

[oneighty]

4. "The Towers of Mars'

Science fiction by Robert F.Young

An interesting read.

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[elehhhhna]

5. Who would rent space in that thing? Really. Regardless of the design.

[barb162]

6. That's what I have been wondering the last few years.

I don't care how much they security proof it, you know that would be a big target again for the al quaida types. Who in their right mind would rent office space there? I don't see how it would be anything but a white elephant, unrentable and it might as well have a big sign on it saying"hit me."

I think the design unveiled yesterday was really ugly.

[elehhhhna]

7. Sylvia Browne, perhaps?

If ghosts are real...yeesh. Imagine.