Trump is right!-
While The Donald's comb-over is all wrong, the billionaire developer's take on Daniel Liebeskind's 'Freedom Tower' is all right. The design is wrong and it is weak, for many reasons.
First and most importantly, if we allow terrorists to re-shape our cityscape for any reason, we lose and they win. If we build towers that are shorter, it sends a message that we are afraid of another 9/11 style airstrike. If we build just another new building, like is currently proposed, we are saying in no uncertain terms that terrorists can change our cityscape at will. WE decide when to destroy a building, NOT THEM.
If Flight 93 had succeeded in ramming the White House as planned, would we agree to a post-modernist, Euro-style chateau, or would we build it exactly as it stood?...we know the answer. It would be rebuilt indentically, down to the undersized oval office, and rightly so.
Think of any important structures as being destroyed by terrorism. The Empire State in New York, the Chrysler building in Chicago, The Golden Gate bridge or Transamerica building in San Francisco. Were they attacked, would we allow terrorists to change our view of them? Had they had struck the the Houses of Parliament in our allies' country and toppled Big Ben, would the Brits rebuild a stumpy glass box with a digital clock on four sides, or would they stand tall and rebuild as they did in WW2, right in Hitler's face?. We should follow their example.
The week after 9/11, it occurred to me that the WTC must be rebuilt exactly as originally designed, except for one modification:
It should be taller than before, in defiance of terrorists. It would say : "you bloodied our nose, but we're bigger and stronger than ever before....beware"
I was proud to hear Mr. Trump champion ,only today, the identical sentiment: "The towers he advocates would be 111 stories tall - one floor taller than the lost towers.".. BRAVO!!
September 11th and the collapse of the WTC was a symbol for radical, murderous Islamists. For them it's a symbol of destruction.
for us, the WTC was a symbol of financial strength and civic progress.
I also appreciate symbolism. If we rebuild the WTC as it stood on September 10th, 2001, it will be a symbol consistent with our third finger in the faces of terrorists, a constant reminder of how we view their ideology of tyranny.
I wish Trump all success in his drive to scrap the current blunder of a design for what should be rebuilt: Minoro Yamasaki's original effort.
First and most importantly, if we allow terrorists to re-shape our cityscape for any reason, we lose and they win. If we build towers that are shorter, it sends a message that we are afraid of another 9/11 style airstrike. If we build just another new building, like is currently proposed, we are saying in no uncertain terms that terrorists can change our cityscape at will. WE decide when to destroy a building, NOT THEM.
If Flight 93 had succeeded in ramming the White House as planned, would we agree to a post-modernist, Euro-style chateau, or would we build it exactly as it stood?...we know the answer. It would be rebuilt indentically, down to the undersized oval office, and rightly so.
Think of any important structures as being destroyed by terrorism. The Empire State in New York, the Chrysler building in Chicago, The Golden Gate bridge or Transamerica building in San Francisco. Were they attacked, would we allow terrorists to change our view of them? Had they had struck the the Houses of Parliament in our allies' country and toppled Big Ben, would the Brits rebuild a stumpy glass box with a digital clock on four sides, or would they stand tall and rebuild as they did in WW2, right in Hitler's face?. We should follow their example.
The week after 9/11, it occurred to me that the WTC must be rebuilt exactly as originally designed, except for one modification:
It should be taller than before, in defiance of terrorists. It would say : "you bloodied our nose, but we're bigger and stronger than ever before....beware"
I was proud to hear Mr. Trump champion ,only today, the identical sentiment: "The towers he advocates would be 111 stories tall - one floor taller than the lost towers.".. BRAVO!!
September 11th and the collapse of the WTC was a symbol for radical, murderous Islamists. For them it's a symbol of destruction.
for us, the WTC was a symbol of financial strength and civic progress.
I also appreciate symbolism. If we rebuild the WTC as it stood on September 10th, 2001, it will be a symbol consistent with our third finger in the faces of terrorists, a constant reminder of how we view their ideology of tyranny.
I wish Trump all success in his drive to scrap the current blunder of a design for what should be rebuilt: Minoro Yamasaki's original effort.
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