The Freedom Tower

If you put aside all of the vanity of architects, bureaucrats, politicians and critics surrounding the reconstruction of the World Trade Center over the last six years, something does finally seem to be rising above what a general interest Canadian magazine is calling careless, private ambition, uniquely American uncertainty  and public idealism over the projects at Ground Zero that has been way too lofty.
“Out of the ashes of the World Trade Center comes a new vision for tall buildings in the contemporary world,”John Bentley Mays says in the Sunday, November 25 issue of the magazine with the odd name of Walrus.
What this piece reminds us of are the almost daily eruptions that still occur over the most notorious, expensive real estate in the world. Still, when you take a closer look at the many THINK groups, group think and a preposterous sum of money that just keeps growing and growing, this project will be one for the books.
Go to www.walrusmagazine.com and read a reprint of May’s piece in the Nov. 25 issue. It is more than just a thoughtful, outsider’s point of view, you might also find it insightful as well.