New York's new landmark: The Smack Needle.

What's interesting is that, in the ground-level mockup published recently (not sure if I saw it in the Hartford Courant or the NYT; it's not the same image that's been on CNN forever), the buildings look like rubble. A heck of a lot like rubble; between all the oddly-jutting angles and the shapes of the windows, it's a) what he seems to be good at and b) kinda shockingly evocative of The Event (what with all the criticism of the 'skeleton towers' proposal), though it might be a little less harsh in living color than muddy halftone.

IMHO, a pretty good piece of [forgettably postmodernist, for my taste] architecture in the wrong place. The idea of a vertical memorial garden is kinda cool [in a hip postmodern way], but you can't really pull that shit off until you actually *have* the tech to build a castle in the air; with the cost of construction, there's already [even more of a] clamor to pack the whole thing full of offices to pay for it, as far as I can tell.