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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 01:59 AM Original message |
NYTimes: "A Tower That Sends A Message of Anxiety, Not Ambition" |
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Ignacio Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:02 AM Response to Original message |
1. Why must this building be so ugly? |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:13 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. prolly 'cause no Dems were on the committee-- |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 06:31 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Because everything Silverstein touches is garbage nt |
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TheWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 08:39 AM Response to Reply #1 |
13. Because it is a perfect representation of what this country has become |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-21-07 01:06 AM Response to Reply #1 |
30. I don't think it's ugly at all... |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. phallus with a darning needle on the tip... |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:30 AM Response to Original message |
4. It would be a beautiful building if it were 1/3 the size |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Even then, not very visionary. |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 06:35 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. The neighborhood be damned |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 03:08 AM Response to Original message |
6. It will always be |
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PBass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 06:34 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Well, the original twin towers were ugly too. Everyone said so. (nt) |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 09:33 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Yes. I agree, the twin towers were a |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 11:39 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. The sad thing is, neoliberal Dem millionaires who control Manhattan |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 06:38 AM Response to Original message |
10. Every terrorist with an anti-US axe to grind in the whole damn world will gun for that tower. |
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bklyncowgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 06:56 AM Response to Original message |
11. Just paint a great big bullseye on that sucker. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-21-07 12:54 AM Response to Reply #11 |
28. Apparently they've made agreements with the feds for a lot of the proposed space |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 06:57 AM Response to Original message |
12. Looks like a ginormous hypodermic needle |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 08:42 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Or an award given in a corporation. |
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MamaBear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 10:29 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. It's meant to be a transmitter |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 11:41 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Addiction to global resource extraction and hyper-capitalism? |
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Marie26 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 12:10 PM Response to Reply #12 |
23. It says: "Freedom is on the march!" nt |
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npincus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
17. you can't please everyone... |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-21-07 01:16 AM Response to Reply #17 |
31. I didn't like Foster's design - too unwieldy and wierd - but that's just my opinion... |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-21-07 03:18 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. quibble... |
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negativenihil (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
18. bleh |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
21. I am right across the street from the site right now. |
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Marie26 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
22. And it's the loss of equality |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
24. Will they hang a giant "KICK ME" sign on it? |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
25. It's shockingly ugly - no symmetry, no curves and that eyesore of a 'needle' on top of it |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
26. . |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-20-07 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
27. Am i the only one that doesn't like the name? Bush has forever tainted the |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-21-07 01:01 AM Response to Original message |
29. I think this is a FUGLY tower |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-21-07 03:01 AM Response to Original message |
32. OMG....it looks like.. |
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