The Spire of Dublin “gains its power from its engineering, rather than from symbolism. Perhaps that’s what’s wrong with the design for the World Trade Center Memorial–it is relentlessly literal; the two tower footprints, the names of the victims, the inevitable visitor center. (It must be said that this is chiefly the fault of the committee that created the original program.) Wouldn’t it have been better if the memorial had been … uplifting and inspiring, but also mute?”