Posted 
           5:19 PM 
           by Gene
         
       
      
       
First the memorial pit would be 70 feet.  Then it went to thirty feet.  
Now people are talking of eliminating it.  It has been quite obvious from the start that the WTC rebuilders don't know what they're doing, and it was inevitable with the dearth of architectural visionaries like 
William Van Alen we'd be stuck with corporate boxes, or the late unlamented Tinkertoys, or the Shards.  We're well on our way to what I feared would happen: construction of an ugly, impractical, politically-sired horde of white elephants.