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Wow, if you're Freedom Tower architect David Childs, you can just never win. When he redesigned Freedom Tower, not only did people hate the design, a Yale architecture student claimed Childs stole his design. And now, after unveiling his latest, critically panned Freedom Tower design, Childs may have taken ideas from well-known architect (and dean of the Yale School of Architecture) Robert A.M. Stern! Stern told the Post "tersely," "I'm aware of the resemblance and I'm surprised and flattered" - referring to one of his initial designs for the Comcast Center in Philadelphia (a drawing of the final building is at right) which has a "square base whose corners cut away as the building rises, forming an octagonal floor plan through the middle of the tower." The designs were included in Stern's monograph
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like any developer's housing development, childs' off-the-shelf design is so uninspired there must be hundreds of variations on the theme out there.
they look nothing the same. give it up.
1. Honestly, David Childs probably doesn't spend a lot of (or any) time looking through Bob Stern monographs. They're in totally different realms of the field.
2. The NY 1960, 1930, etc. books are the best things Bob Stern has ever published.
Give me a break. I've already noted that Child's firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, unveiled a similar but shorter design for the NYSE Tower downtown in 2001. If 9/11 hadn't happened, they might actually have built that tower. Were they copying Stern then, too? And I've pointed out that Harry Weese had a 200 story design like that over 20 years ago. It was featured in both High Technology and Discover magazine articles on superskyscrapers at the time. Except Weese did it for structural reasons. Either way, both designs resemble the new Freedom Tower about 1000% more than the Stern design does. Friggin' NY Post should stick with gossip, innuendo and liberal bashing, the thing's they're good at. They don't know squat about architecture.
Comcast: a.k.a. liberty plaza...maybe there is about a highrise with truncated corners and an octagonal floor plan that rings democracy?
Who Cares? as long as they don't use that old libeskind design. The ugliest piece of shit in the world. It looked like a big block of ice with a toothpick stuck on top. The new design is not ugly just really really simple and uninspired. I think i've seen this design before as a spire tower on top of buildings. I've also seen the same design on crystal door handles.
wow, another egomaniac involved in the ground zero project. I don't know how Bob Stern can take credit for all buildings with a square base. His design looks nothing like Childs design.
I still like the original design of the Freedom Tower better.