The Freedom Tower

Well, Eliot has gone and done it now. What the new governor of New York State Eliot Spitzer has gone and done is speak up, saying he supports construction of the Freedom Tower. What this means, according to the New York Times, is that Spitzer had been the last ray of hope that there could still be some “broad vision” linked to the project and hopefully some level of sanity.
One of the biggest problems with the project is the fact that employees for the government agencies, including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who own the building, balked when their bosses said they’d happily move into the building. The Times said the whole project has taken on an “almost perversely Strangelove-ian” feel.
“the problem is not simply whether enough bureaucrats can be coerced into working there one day,” the Times said. “It’s also what the building expresses as a work of architecture. Governor Spitzer may recall the looming presence of the twin towers on the downtown skyline, at once proud and intimidating; the Freedom Tower will have an equally powerful effect on the daily lives of New Yorkers as well as on the city’s image throughout the world. Yet its message will be very different from the old towers. Hurriedly redesigned more than a year ago after terrorism experts questioned its vulnerability to a bomb attack, the Freedom Tower, with its tapered bulk and chamfered corners, evokes a gargantuan glass obelisk.”