Ground Zero, Take Two

The newly redesigned Freedom Tower that New York officials are hoping to build on the ruins of the World Trade Center was unveiled this morning with a number of architectural changes and a major security upgrade. “While the original plan called for a parallelogram base, eight isosceles triangles now rise out of a cubic base to a perfect octagon in the new reinforced middle of the tower, which supports a glass parapet. The tower will be capped with a mast incorporating an antenna, meant to suggest the torch of the Statue of Liberty.” The building’s actual location on the lot has also been changed as part of a plan to make it more resistant to truck bombs.