Gothamist: New Freedom Tower Design, New Claim Design Was Stolen

me

Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:55:49 -0500

I still like the original design of the Freedom Tower better.

bob denver

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:33:15 -0500

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.

fat stinking hog

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:44:43 -0500

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.

vincent

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:57:03 -0500

Comcast: a.k.a. liberty plaza...maybe there is about a highrise with truncated corners and an octagonal floor plan that rings democracy?

Captain Midnight

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:52:11 -0500

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.

stephanie

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:36:20 -0500

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.

anon

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:13:10 -0500

they look nothing the same. give it up.

hijiki

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:12:48 -0500

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.