[jimbo123]

Nice work to everyone who called.

[F16Fighter]

"Nice work to everyone who called."

Ditto...

And how about this BS?:

"We called it a crescent because it was a curving land form. We called it 'Crescent of Embrace' because of the symbolic gesturing of embracing this place," Murdoch said. "There's no desire to make this a divisive memorial."

I'd like to apply a vice-like "embrace" to Murdoch's neck as more than a "symbolic gesture."

[cynicom]

A change of architects would be a good start.

[Argus]

Why don't they just preserve the makeshift memorial that ordinary folks built there in the days, weeks and months following 9/11? That was a real "people's monument".

[Free ThinkerNY]

I heard the same architect wanted to put a Nazi swastika monument at Dachau as a "sign of reconciliation."

[Berlin_Freeper]

If that jerk wants to build a crescent then let him go live in Iran.

[new cruelty]

"I think the topography of the land would really dictate there would be some kind of arc," Felt said.

So design and arc shaped memorial and call it the Arc of Remembrance.

[Publius6961]

"It's a disappointment there is a misinterpretation and a simplistic distortion of this, but if that is a public concern, than that is something we will look to resolve in a way that keeps the essential qualities," Murdoch, 48, of Los Angeles, said in a telephone interview.

Well, all the criticism has been justified. Architects, even the most famous ones, are uniformly "unconscious"; that is to say that they get wrapped up in an idea, a detail a "new" approach at something and are oblivious to the world.
What seems obvious to us is in a different galaxy to them. Symbolism, let alone the appearance of unconsciousness is totally foreign to them.

Islam and its symbol never occured to him.

[xcamel]

Like this?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The problem I have with the design is that it is going to be VERY expensive to reshape the land so that it looks like the model.

It looks like the terrain will be similar to rice paddies in China. Is this architect a Chicom-lover or what?

[ladyinred]

I am doubtful the design will change much. This guy sounds like a touchy feely liberal who thinks we were at fault to me..

[sourcery]

The Architect:

[Wissa]

Will Adams, spokesman for Tancredo, said Wednesday Tancredo would be happy with the changes only if the crescent shape is removed.

I'd be okay with leaving the crescent... if the design change involves putting a large red circle all the way around it and a red slash down the middle from the upper left to the lower right.

[F-117A]

"Its shape is a circle broken by the flight pattern of the plane..."

Then why didn't he call it "Broken Circle"?

[Chode]

personally, i thought a cross to represent the plane with their names where they were seated on the plane would be nice.

[VU4G10]

 

Bad Day At Mecca's Black Rock

[Aznar5]

I wonder how they got the land to build this monument?

[F-117A]

Paul Murdoch calls this a "civic disturbance".

[ajolympian2004]

Before everyone has a panic attack over the memorial design you need to listen to this interview today by Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman of KHOW. They talked with the wife of the flight 93 pilot and she was also on the board of the design committee.

http://www.khow.com/mpdownload/9-14_sandydahl.wma
(Windows Media Player)

She says the memorial design should go on as planned. None of the families members of the folks who died in the crash object to design either.

[nicmarlo]

Simple....

1.....change to silver maple trees

2.....Change to square

3..... Point it at the intended target

******

# 3 works for me!!!!

[MinuteGal]

Let's just turn the whole thing over the aliens who do the crop circles and be done with it.

Leni