perfidy

Last week, the design for the building to replace Manhattan's World Trade Center towers was unveiled. It's a tall office building topped with an open scaffolding which will contain windmills to provide a certain percentage of the building's power. Cool! Better yet, the design contains elements that will echo the surroundings: the scaffolding will resemble the cables on the Brooklyn Bridge, and the topmost spire is meant to echo the Statue of Liberty's hand thrust skyward.

The new building will include observation decks and a top-floor restaurant, and if they could find a way to throw in a super-secret piano grotto that would also be cool. Who do I call for this?

I almost forgot to mention-- in a grand New Yorkish gesture of "fuck you" defiance, the rebuilt World Trade Center will be the tallest building in the world.

[wik] Will Baude of Crescat Sententia nails it: "I do think there would have been something poetic about the twin piers, or a simply adorned void, but replacing the World Trade Center with the tallest building in the world is a pleasantly arrogant thing to do."

[alsø wik] Is the name "Freedom Tower" Orwellian? You decide!