Comments on: Everything is Less Than Zero http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/05/09/waiting_for_the_other_wing_to/ Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:49:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Tan Boon Tee http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/05/09/waiting_for_the_other_wing_to/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Tan Boon Tee Sat, 10 May 2008 05:00:43 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/05/09/waiting_for_the_other_wing_to/#comment-254 Every time the words Ground Zero strike my eyes, they remind me of that Sunday evening in May 1995 when I was standing right in front of the giant sculpture erected between the two enormous towers. And each time melancholy sets in surreptitiously without fail. I was completely overwhelmed by the massive structures then, more so while gazing at them from the window at the 43rd floor of Millennium Hotel nearby where I put up for two nights. Sadly, there have been far too many changes of mind as to what is to be built on the empty space ever since after 911 (apart from the memorial). The world top architects strived to put in their very best, only to be told later that something new would be cropping up. Why not just let the lost souls rest in peace eternally without being hassled any more on what super-striking mega-structure would be constructed to replace the lost towers? Every time the words Ground Zero strike my eyes, they remind me of that Sunday evening in May 1995 when I was standing right in front of the giant sculpture erected between the two enormous towers. And each time melancholy sets in surreptitiously without fail.

I was completely overwhelmed by the massive structures then, more so while gazing at them from the window at the 43rd floor of Millennium Hotel nearby where I put up for two nights.

Sadly, there have been far too many changes of mind as to what is to be built on the empty space ever since after 911 (apart from the memorial). The world top architects strived to put in their very best, only to be told later that something new would be cropping up.

Why not just let the lost souls rest in peace eternally without being hassled any more on what super-striking mega-structure would be constructed to replace the lost towers?

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