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Canada
Aug 2001
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Originally posted by Adagio
I would see a new building as a better "memorial" than some empty land |
I agree. IMO, the best thing to do is have a tasteful memorial to those who died or suffered in the tragedy, and a new building(s) to basically say "Screw you. Your attack isn't going to bring us to our knees."
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VetLegion
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What's the saying... ugly buildings, whores and politicians... all get respectable if they last long onough.
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lord of the mark
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
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I believe it was Ada Louise Huxtable, then Archt critic for the Times, who panned the original WTC, as boring, underdone for the size, etc, etc. And the plaza in the middle was something of a wind tunnel, IIRC, and not the best urban space. Nonetheless we (or at least many of us) came to love the WTC, well before 9/11, as it became part of the fabric of our lives in NY. You get used to things.
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lord of the mark
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
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'We must not forget how undistinguished the World Trade Center was. "When completed," the authors of the 2000 edition of the AIA Guide to New York City wrote, "these stolid, banal monoliths came to overshadow Lower Manhattan's cluster of filigreed towers, which had previously been the romantic evocation that symbolized the very concept of 'skyline.'"
Ada Louise Huxtable, former architecture critic for The New York Times, described their style as "General Motors Gothic." Her successor, Paul Goldberger, called them "boring, so utterly banal as to be unworthy of the headquarters of a bank in Omaha." Wolf von Eckhardt published an article in Harper's calling the World Trade Center a "fearful instrument of urbicide," and "one of the ugliest buildings in the world." They were monuments to money and power, brutish and ugly, and only in the agony of their final hour did they take on nobility from the valor of those who sought to save the people who worked within their walls.
Until some 40 years ago, the lower west side was an industrial neighborhood. Washington Market, a block-square two-story building at Washington Street between Fulton and Vesey Streets, where 175 merchants dealt in meat, poultry, cheese, butter and garden produce delivered by boat, wagon and truck, dominated the local economy. At Cortlandt St., the huge, faintly seedy Hudson Terminal buildings towered above the terminus of the Hudson Tubes, now the PATH line. Printing plants, warehouses and factories jostled delicatessens, bars, cobblers, hardware stores and barbers. Cortlandt Street had so many electronics retailers that some called it "Radio Row." '
the author neglects to include eggs among the items dealt in by the wholesale merchants of the Washington Market. This is a MAJOR omission.
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Q Cubed
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t3h y3ll0w p3ril
Apr 1999
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I disliked the original design, but honestly, I think this one's a step backwards.
It's duller, not as visually interesting. The article's right--it's just a friggin' obelisk (obelix is asterix's friend, not a spire), and sure, it's made out of glass and lit from within, but...
It's boring. I mean, the old WTC towers were pretty boring, too, but this isn't really a step up, either.
And I had no idea Albert Speer had architectural nightmares. I thought he had enough trouble with Philly itself...
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Such dullness is a betrayal of American values!
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