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The Skyscraper: A Gesture to Reason, Freedom and Human Life
by Joseph Kellard
(April 27, 2003)
The elevator's most significant affect, however, is how it helped transform architecture. Along with the steel girder, the elevator made possible a unique and distinctly American architecture: the skyscraper.
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Goodbye to Frank Gehry's Bad Joke
by Robert W. Tracinski
(January 1, 2003)
Gehry's proposed design looked very much like a fake wrecked building -- which the Guggenheim Foundation was proposing to build in a city so recently home to the real thing. This effect was highlighted by the fact that Gehry's New York Guggenheim was to be much taller than his other piles of twisted metal, looming 400 feet above the East River and looking like a crumpled skyscraper.
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Rebuilding the WTC: Anything Less Is Suicide
by Sherri R. Tracinski
(July 21, 2002)
All of Manhattan is sacred ground--not because people died there, but because its bridges and skyscrapers are monuments to human life. They are monuments to the human aspiration to build and to create. This is what was attacked on September 11: our wealth, our success, the global reach of our commerce and culture. The best way to commemorate those achievements is through a new skyscraper, bigger, better, and more beautiful than the ones we have lost.
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Rebuilding the WTC: The Greatest Tribute Possible
by Bob Murphy
(July 1, 2002)
Those who wish to rebuild the WTC face an uphill battle against those who are opposed to using the site for commerce and against those who have called for the site to become a memorial park.
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 Recommended Reading:
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand
Whether you are one of capitalism's alleged champions (Conservatives,
Libertarians, etc.), or actually one of its defenders (a rarity in today's
culture), or a part of the "humanitarian" lynch mob that seeks to burn a straw
man, or just a curious observer -- read Ayn Rand's
Capitalism: The Unknown
Ideal -- and then judge for yourself. |
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