October 23, 2003
The architects for what you might call the centerpiece of the WTC memorial - the 1776 foot tower - can't agree on a design. It's hard to get any insight into the disagreement from the Times article, since there's no picture of David Childs's design, but one thing about the tower really strikes me as ugly: the name. They're actually calling it Freedom Tower, even after the country's hateful obsession with all things freedom (freedom fries, freedom toast, freedom ticklers...). I liked the name World Trade Center better; certainly it was more forward looking, and less insular.
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