Trump has about as much design sense as a wild boar. I don't believe a majority of the American people would want this "re-design". I don't really know about New Yorkers. Ultimately it's your city and our symbol but... the WTC is gone. It died that day.
This to me smacks of trying to "bring it back". I don't like it at all. You start with a blank slate and you make a new beginning (whether it's the freedom tower or something else). You don't make a larger carbon copy of the old towers. Yah maybe it's a more direct way to give terrorists the finger but WhoTF cares what they think of our new design? I did two weeks after 9/11, but after a few years to let it settle, I couldn't give a shit whether they are upset by it or not.
There needs to be something new, something fresh. A new legacy. Not a reminder of the old legacy. Trump and this designer have it completely wrong.
...into the light of a dark black night.
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