I'm not an architect or a designer but I was reading about the new WTC design today and learned that the first 20 stories will be concrete, with no windows. In order to mask this offense to the people of New York, they'll be putting fake glass panels over it.
To me it sounds like the tower will be a symbol to the world of American fear and paranoia, not our strength or our hope, and not our ingenuity.
Americans from times past would have invented a way to make the base of the building strong, yet still open. Today, our billionaire developers aren't interested in doing the R&D to make that happen.
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