The Journal's Robbie Whelan weighs in on the latest dispute over the height of 1 World Trade Center, but Whelan cares less than everyone else about whether the building ends up being, as planned, the tallest in North America. "This brouhaha misses the much more important—and long-lasting—aesthetic issues?.The upshot for the city's residents is that they will be getting an inferior, less coherent building, whose design has been hurt by a developer who has failed to recognize the importance of delivering on an architect's vision." [WSJ; previously]
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