| Wednesday, February 26, 2003 |
17:26 - Well, okay then...
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/02/26/wtc.finalist.ap/index.html
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So this is the new World Trade Center.
Libeskind's design beat the THINK team's "World Cultural Center" plan, which envisioned two 1,665-foot latticework towers straddling the footprints of the original towers.
The new building is planned to be taller than the trade center towers, which briefly stood as the world's tallest at 1,350 feet. Libeskind's tower also would surpass Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers, the tallest buildings in the world.
I guess it could be worse. And for what it's worth, I think I could get to like this-- at least, more so than the THINK Team's nightmarish "Skeletons in the Sky" vision.
As I've said before, I would have much preferred something big, substantial, eye-popping-- a new masthead for the nation. Maybe not something as brash as WTC2002, but something along those lines.
But they seem to have gone for something jaggy and wispy, ghostly and fragmented, like a broken window or a collapsed volcano. I mean, yes, it's tall-- at least, that one spire is. But I have to wonder just what the inspiration was for this kind of design.
I hope it's not just that this would be harder to hit with a plane.
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