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Jun 22 2007 2:00PM EDT

The JPM Ground Zero Tower: Beer Belly, or Modern Herm?

Steve Cuozzo isn't pulling any punches today: he says that the skyscraper JP Morgan is proposing to build at Ground Zero is "hideous", and he's not wrong. Curbed has a bigger version of the rendering, which really does look atrocious.

There has to be a good chance that an abomination such as this will never be allowed to be built, especially at such a sensitive site. But assuming it is, will Cuozzo's "beer belly" moniker stick? If you ask me, there's a more suitable visual metaphor for this building and its cantilevered trading floors filled with the Big Swinging Dicks of Wall Street. I wonder if any of the classicists at Kohn Pederson Fox have ever come across the ancient fertility statues known as Herms?

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