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The Skyscraper: A Gesture to Reason, Freedom and Human Life

Joseph Kellard | 27 April 2003
The elevator's most significant affect, however, is how it helped transform architecture. Along with the steel girder, the elevator made possible a unique and distinctly American architecture: the skyscraper.

Goodbye to Frank Gehry's Bad Joke

Robert Tracinski | 1 January 2003
Gehry's proposed design looked very much like a fake wrecked building -- which the Guggenheim Foundation was proposing to build in a city so recently home to the real thing. This effect was highlighted by the fact that Gehry's New York Guggenheim was to be much taller than his other piles of twisted metal, looming 400 feet above the East River and looking like a crumpled skyscraper.

Rebuilding the WTC: Anything Less Is Suicide

Sherri Tracinski | 21 July 2002
All of Manhattan is sacred ground--not because people died there, but because its bridges and skyscrapers are monuments to human life. They are monuments to the human aspiration to build and to create. This is what was attacked on September 11: our wealth, our success, the global reach of our commerce and culture. The best way to commemorate those achievements is through a new skyscraper, bigger, better, and more beautiful than the ones we have lost.

Rebuilding the WTC: The Greatest Tribute Possible

Bob Murphy | 1 July 2002
Those who wish to rebuild the WTC face an uphill battle against those who are opposed to using the site for commerce and against those who have called for the site to become a memorial park.
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