by Lionel Bascom — November 28th, 2007 — 2 comments
It took just four months to build a replica of the Freedom Tower. The model is only 28 feet tall, is made of at least 170,000 Lego bricks and stands in Legoland USA outside San Diego.
It’s a “way to pay tribute to the heroes and victims of 9/11,” Legoland spokeswoman Julie Estrada.
The Freedom Tower replica was built all according to architect Daniel Libeskind’s grand design.
the mini-monument was up by March 2005, pretty much according to the 2003 schedule laid out by Libeskind for the actual ground zero. Adding insult to injury, the Lego version was only three months old when Libeskind’s plan—which had won the 2002 competition to design the new WTC—was nixed and plans for the tower were changed into the stolid, symmetrical Skidmore, Owings & Merrill version finally under way in Manhattan. Although the real one’s not scheduled to be completed until 2011, it will rise above street level next year.
7:52 PM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News
Rising from the depths of despair, this sanctuary could be a haven for a renaissance of the 21st century, coalescing the strength of a nation with a creativity found at the core of the living human spirit.
Or it could be just a prickly thorn, emerging through the surface of progress, opening a wound that will never heal, hemorrhaging with a cynical ooze in which the possibility of innovation drowns.
Jeanne · November 28th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
OR…it could be a pen, mightier than the sword, that carries the message of freedom, justice and enlightenment. This pen, if correctly aimed, could share the beauty of right action to those who carry true power.
Jeanne · November 29th, 2007 at 9:26 am