Freedom Tower and Vietnam War Memorial
No Comments | June 29th, 2006

Eager to avoid creating a fortress that overshadows the World Trade Center memorial, the architects of the Freedom Tower unveiled a new approach today. They would clad its 187-foot-high, bomb-resistant concrete base in a screen of glass prisms rather than metal panels.

I still don’t see the point in erecting yet another tower. Assuming a hero [...]




     

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