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Re:The World Trade Center Under Construction Through Photos,... by philistine on Saturday October 11, 2025 @08:03PM (#45553893)
The thing with this pernicious idea of rebuilding as it was is it would have left no place for the massive commemorative space that an event like that needs.

The Freedom Tower is so unimpressive in large part because it had to fit within the constraints of the main event at this location.

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Re:The World Trade Center Under Construction Through Photos,... by api on Saturday October 11, 2025 @09:13PM (#45554230)
Put that in the lobby of each building. Make it a giant high ceilinged space with a big granite monument, but rebuild.

The freedom tower literally looks shattered, and next to it is a giant wound that never heals. That’s what that whole site says. “We are broken now.”

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