In ongoing efforts to obtain funds for finishing the World Trade Center memorial, a judge has dismissed the site developer's legal bid for additional monetary awards from the airlines whose planes where used in the terrorist attack of 9/11.
Owner/developer Larry Silverstein has already been compensated billions in insurance payouts so he could erect a single skyscraper and memorial to stand where the twin towers once stood. And while the judge cited statutes barring a plaintiff from collecting twice "from the same loss" the court heaped praise on Silverstein et al for creating "beauty out of the ashes."
Silverstein Properties and World Trade Center Properties were "disappointed with the ruling" and claim the project, which is still not completed yet, has cost them nearly 8-billion dollars. They intend to pursue their lawsuit.
Personally, if Americonic Art was in charge of that reconstruction, there would have been no new highrise defiantly and daringly built on such sacred ground.
Instead, a massive quilt constructed from the rubble and shaped into a series of touching stars or streaks of lightning would have been installed. This ground-level design reaching as far across Manhattan as the Twin Towers' shadows did before they were leveled.
A durable outdoor quilt created from scraps of stone, brick, glass, metal and even plastic -- there's little doubt that this concept would have made for a more economical and moving tribute, as even new buildings can fall down, or, worse, be once again blown up.
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