The so called, “Feedom Tower” that looked something like the side view of the “Kentile” sign in Brooklyn, is dead. It was an awful design with the idiotic conceit of looking like the burnt out skeleton of the Stature of Liberty… what would that have actually said to people? Looks like they’ll build something a bit simpler… might even be elegant. Let’s hope… but I still think the THINK project was a better solution…. this new concept looks like one of those new New Jersey towers you see off in the downtown distance and dream of Hong Kong. In short, it ain’t to pretty, nor witty, nor novel, but at least it’s better than the previous stab. Still, the beauty of the twin towers, was the space between them and their monolithic (non-tapered) sillouhette. They were plinths for the sky… this is just another tower.
The dog kept me up all last night making a strange coughing noise. I think it’s the airconditioner, but the better half wants to get some sort of cough medicine for dogs… I’m trying to imagine a syrup for a dog and get ready for a meeting to show some e-books out in Greenpoint… When I get there, its nothing but computer glitches and sweat and general no sleep all night inarticulateness. I hope the work speaks for itself, because in this heat with no sleep I was barely functioning… dog seems better now…. but what a horrible noise…. Like ghosts choking.
