Hi 3WD:
You wrote about the Trade Center site:
> That particular brand of modernism is was not my favorite either, but
> the twin towers over their life had rose to icon status for NYC. IMHO
> rebuilding is a kind of an in your face gesture to terrorism.
The terrorists are too dumb to get the message don't you think?
> Nothing like this will happen. The real estate is so valuable in that area
> that the terrorists did the developers a favor. They demoed them and the
> government is clearing the site. A real estate dream. When it is all said
> an done years from now there will be a token plaza somewhere with a
> politically correct statue with even bigger skyscrapers towering over it.
> And they'll have ten gazzillion more square feet than the towers contained.
> To appeal to our liberal friends the new-scapes should be designed by a
> struggling Saudi architect. : - (
I have no reason to doubt that something like you describe will happen.
Of course, postmodernists will likely object to doing anything since they
will claim that one can't be certain of the existence of the original twin
towers, the attack, or the deaths of 2800 civilians.
Platt
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