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Oddly Enough, It Does

by John Cole|  July 2, 200510:23 am| 11 Comments

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  1. 1.

    demimondian

    July 2, 2005 at 10:40 am

    I personally like the name “Freedom Tower”, since it make me think of “Freedom Fries”. In fact, if it were surfaced with a matte gold powder coat, instead of being surfaced with white stone, it would even look like a Freedom Fry.

  2. 2.

    BumperStickerist

    July 2, 2005 at 10:52 am

    Howzabout these:

    ChumbaWumba Center –

    ~/ They Got Knocked Down, But Now They’re Back Again,
    Ain’t Nothing Gonna Keep Us Down ../~
    …. no, too sacriligious, I suppose.

    Rather than Freedom, maybe the Democracy angle would play better – a name like:

    Democracy Towers

    could work.

    Being as this is in New York, something with a local flavor. Maybe:

    IGotYourJihadRightHerePal Plaza

    or there’s the Movies/Broadway angle:

    WTCII: This Time It’s Personal

    Regardless, I think one design element should be a big arrow pointing incoming jets towards the UN Building.

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    RSA

    July 2, 2005 at 11:36 am

    To follow up on demimondian’s comment, and to make up for past poor re-naming judgment, there’s always “The French Tower”, or “La Tour Francaise”.

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    Tim F

    July 2, 2005 at 11:48 am

    I can’t help thinking that a few years after they build it they’re going to change the name back to ‘French Tower.’

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    Nathan Lanier

    July 2, 2005 at 11:53 am

    “Freedom Tower” – Made In China

    I thought about what else you could name it and I drew a blank. “Tower of Freedom” is less hokey, I think.

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    rose

    July 2, 2005 at 1:17 pm

    I think it should be called the memorial tower. It looks like a giant washington monument to me.

  7. 7.

    Barbar

    July 2, 2005 at 1:45 pm

    Phoenix tower

  8. 8.

    Ken Hahn

    July 2, 2005 at 3:13 pm

    How about we call it the World Trade Center?

  9. 9.

    Tim F

    July 2, 2005 at 4:23 pm

    Myabe we can call it ‘Andy’s Discount Store’ and hope that the terrorists won’t notice it.

  10. 10.

    Jon H

    July 2, 2005 at 4:34 pm

    The American way would be to sell the naming rights.

    The only thing I would change about it is that I’d really like to have bin Laden’s mouldering skull perched atop the antenna, for perpetuity. With a webcam pointed at it.

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    tim

    July 3, 2005 at 9:47 am

    How about “Taxpayer Funded Symbolic Construct of Mediocrity?”

    My bedroom window looks out on the location where this is going to appear. My personal take is don’t fucking bother – we don’t need it. Manhattan has adjusted. If the rest of the country can’t, screw them. Not like they ever liked New Yorkers in the first place.

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