"Freedom Tower" renamed to One World Trade Center

[bascule]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29913195/

 

I support this. "Freedom Tower" seems like a Bush era doublethink sort of name. One World Trade Center does a much better version of communicating the whole "rise above" mentality.

[Sisyphus]

Agreed, always hated "freedom tower." Sounded Orwellian, or like a superhero's headquarters, and the generally childish/scary rhetoric from the same era that brought us "Axis of Evil."

 

Of course, as a New Yorker, the whole project is just extremely exasperating in general. They built the Empire State Building in one year, people. Shouldn't things be easier now?

 

EDIT: Just read the article, and I can't not comment on the fact that the first anchor tenant is going to be a Chinese real estate company. How much bigger of a metaphor could you get?

Edited March 27, 2009 by Sisyphus

[Pangloss]

Agreed. Thanks for the info.

[john5746]

I agree as well. The more they use that space for its original intent, the better. If Europe and Japan had taken the same approach, they would have whole cities that were just memorials.