Whats the use?

I read this in belgian newspaper –

(c) BELGA/AFP

Libeskinds Freedomtower will never be build. Too dangerous according to NY police.

”The tower is told to be too close to the street and the abundant use of glass makes it vulnerable for terrorist attacks with a car bomb.”

The new design hast to honour the ‘spirit’ of Libeskinds design en it has to be as high (1776 feet – year of US independance). But it will be another tower.. of another architect.
And the main question still stands: ‘who’ll want to work in such a high tower?’ For the new tower there hasn’t been found a single person that wants to rent space there.

How come that such a design won, then? This project has been chosen on certain qualities that will go lost now in “honoring the spirit of Libeskinds design”..
How fair is this towards the other competitors that joined the cometition but didnt win? How fair is this towards Libeskind?
It seems that symbolism (1776 feet/Freedom(?)tower/…) is more important than architecture.
It seems that they still dont get that any building can be bombed if some1 wants it to be bombed (by car, by plane, by flowerpot, …). Or should we from now on build only at a minimum distance from the street equal to the maximum blast-radius of the biggest potential bomb? – Dont forget to incorporate the SAM-missiles on your roofs? ;) (It can be solved in a more esthetical way: www.battlemccarthy.com)
This megalomania is not a conmemeroration of the innocent who sadly lost their lives on 9/11, but a self-fulfilling-prophecy.

Whatever. Skyscrapers are outdated anyway.


kus
Freefrik NC.b

posted by frederik
Sat, 07 May 2005 16:07:49 GMT