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A better call might tbe to his employer, a Mr. Magill, managing partner at Mr. Childs firm, SOM, 212.298.9300.
....... (Posted by Howard Roark on 05/26 @ 05:11)
From what I can tell (and I can), his designs for the new buildings SUCK. "Then again, where will you find a developer willing to pay for 40 stories of unprofitable frosting on his cake?"
What? Shorten the building, yet stick nonsense on the top, just to make it the same height?
Clearly, Childs has never heard of clean design, nor appreciated the fact of what he has the CHANCE to design.
Granted, the way the buildings were built had a fatal flaw. We now know that the design of the interior floors caused the actual collapse (PBS did a special on it). But they were built during a time when the idea of an attack like that which happened was inconcieveable.
And as to what we should do now is as confusing as ever, but not to some. Some don't want to build over "a cemetery without tombstones." I'm sorry people, but you've been doing that since you landed here. Do you honestly believe that we Native Americans had nice neat graveyards? Should we somehow pay homage to the souls who were lost? Absolutely. But speaking pratically, it's in the economic's best interest to have a building there. Thousands of workers who survived have had tremondous loss because they no longer have a place to work at. So I think we should rebuild. Yes, the interior design of the new buildings must be different. But they were a landmark, a proud symbol of our determination. For Childs to compare them to the most vile attack we've seen on this soil. They were not "an act of vandalism just as complete as Sept. 11." They were a tremendous attempt to show who we are, free thinkers, and willing to reach new heights. Now is not the time to forget that. We must strive on.
....... (Posted by annessa on 05/27 @ 08:54)
