Ahhhh, The Donald. Bad hair, questionable acting resumé, casino owner, and I only hope the money is why he's able to bed super models as often as he does. Still, when the man is right, you've got to hand out tha props:
The Freedom Tower design was chosen in February 2003 after some of the world's best-known architects submitted proposals. Its height is symbolic of the year of American independence, and its 276-foot spire is meant to echo the arm of the Statue of Liberty.
The torqued glass-and-steel design includes a steel cable netting, more than 60 floors for offices, an indoor observation deck, a restaurant and wind-harvesting turbines to supply some of the building's power.
Trump made it clear he doesn't like it.
"It's a building that's essentially a skeleton," he said.
Trump said the plan "looks like a junkyard."
"You take a look at a the roofs of those buildings, they're all at different angles, different shapes," he said. "It is the worst pile of crap architecture I have ever seen in my life."
Trump's alternative would be replicas of the original 110-story towers, only a bit taller. The design and model by architect Ken Gardner, embraced by Trump, offered buildings that would be 1,474 feet -- more than a hundred feet taller than the original towers, once the world's tallest buildings.
"What we need is support to build a bigger and better version of two buildings and more that were taken down by people that were animals," Trump said. "If something happened to the Statue of Liberty, you wouldn't rebuild it as something other than the Statue of Liberty."
via CNN.com, emphasis mine.
Even the name sucks ass: "Freedom Tower"? What kind of bullshit name is that? Find a real fuck'in name... and don't even get me start on changing the the name of the Newark airport to "Newark-Liberty Airport". What a load of crap.
In getting that POS "Freedom Tower" plan scrapped and something less shitty put up, all I can say is rock on Mr. Trump. Rock on.
