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Originally Posted by deepen915
agreed also.. but we didn't scale back anything! The new tower is a rock solid piece of steel and concrete! we built a tower with better materials than the old twins. Anyone criticizing this tower is a disgrace to society. The hard work, blood and sweat put into building this thing has to be appreciated! to bash this gorgeous tower is just sad. And if you have some sort of grudge b/c the spire was scaled down without the radome, as it seems the op-ed writer feels, then too bad. Most of us on the forum and those of us who live in the NY/NJ area love the tower and see it as a rising from ashes. Let the critics say what they want, but once towers 2 and 3 are built along with the opening of the transit hub in 2015-2016, the true vision will be seen.
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Classic American Patriotism
"If this is what America gets then we love it!" (Even if it's crap and a cop-out). "And if you disagree then you're un-American." It's the standard "You're either with us or against us." mentality. No room for honest criticism or an open dialogue. No acceptance of a fair and balanced viewpoint. How very Republican of you.
And yes, the new WTC is scaled back from what it would have been if conceived in the 2000's. Bare with me on the explanation:
If they were building the World Trade Centre today,
for the first time as if the original never existed and 9/11 also never happened, then to be as impressive and domineering as the original was to contemporary architecture and engineering circa 1966, today it would have to be on the scale of two Burj Khalifas only with comparable bulk as the Willis Tower.
When, what you got (and are getting when complete), is something that looks like it could be built
today in ANY major World city. At the time, (c1960's-70's) only New York was big enough and bold enough to build the Twins and its surrounding complex. It shocked the world of architecture and made architects re-think what "big" was. The new complex is nice, however it fails to "shock" anyone. Nor will it cause architecture to re-think itself around the World.
That is what Banksy is implying. And from a World-view, he is correct.
You are allowed to like, love, respect this tower with all your being, but professing it is the equivalent or even surpasses the impact of what the original did, is delusional. The truth is a bitter pill for deluded patriots to swallow. So I assume you will most likely avoid this medicine and continue in your delusions. Good luck with that.