A Yale architecture student is suing architect David Childs, claiming that Childs stole his design and used it for the Freedom Tower at the site of the World Trade Center. “Thomas Shine says he created his “Olympic Tower” for a Yale architecture class and presented it in December 1999 to a panel of jurists that included Childs. Shine says Childs complimented the design in a Yale architecture magazine: “It is a very beautiful shape. You took the skin and developed it around the form – great.”