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Libeskind offers 1^1 "an Bfor WTC wall" fapade that can be ixcLusm found on many Midtown buildings. A spire, evoking c By WILLIAM NEUMAN raised torch of the Statue MS Daniel Libeskind’s strik­ of Liberty, tops out at the ing vision for a “Freedom symbolic height of 1,776 feet, but technical docu­ Tower" at Ground Zero has morphed into a more conventional glass-and- ments compiled by libes- kincl say a broadcast an­ B-wi I1 steel office bouding at- tenna on “a single mast I Iw ■ tached to an angular spire, above the spire may extend wn by one of the ar­ to 2,100 [feet].’’ R chitect’s new drawings ob­ In other modifications to tained by The Post. Libeskind’s tower, the

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IM ing this revised version of i his tower design in a fight with trade center devel­ and spire part of a single structure. The technical IS c|c oper Larry Silverstein aid his architect David Childs, documents obtained by The Post also describe “ex­ Blii who is the 'lead architect tensive areas of [the] spire fSa for the site’s signahire without cladding,” sii®est- B• •Mli building. At tile 'urging of develop­ ing die upper section could also be made into an open ■Ba I I'i ' ' ment officials, tile archi­ framework. zl tects are scheduled to meet Childs* building is said to ■ r ■toiB i today for the first time since Libeskind stormed out of a meeting’ wiA Childs last Monday, refus­ be a symmetrical tower that twists and tapers as it rises, with 70 stories of of­ fices. Above the occupied -1 a ing to work on a different space foe tower would •^J design. turn into an open lattice-

IBM d Childs’ design has not been made public. The new rendering by li­ work framework that rises into the skyline. ■ These name.s were ■ beskind — one of several added yesterday to the SSI ri.S'“ he is said to be working with — differs from earlier versions in that he leaves medical examiner’s list of confirmed dead in the WTC attacks: ^3 I out the slashing diagonal Christoffer Mikael Car- lines that crisscrossed the stanjen, 33; Marianne Mac- face of the building in pre­ farlane, 34. vious images. Instead, Libeskind has Bcfr'’c...a«aSSi» pasted . onto the tower’s Bush balks at 9/11 •x’ . W . i IB'BmA jA surface the sort of standard glass and steel “curtain P 'A'- NYC-mTC_000142940