Student sues designer of Freedom Tower

[CO Liberal]

Student sues designer of Freedom Tower

Claims plans are 'strikingly similar' to his own


Freedom Tower, shown in
an architect's model, includes
a 1,776-foot spire.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A former architectural student sued the designers of the World Trade Center site's planned Freedom Tower on Monday, saying designs for the skyscraper mirror those he created at Yale University.

Thomas Shine, of Brookline, Massachusetts, is seeking unspecified damages in federal court in Manhattan for what he said was the theft of his designs.

Named as defendants were David Childs and the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. A message left with Childs at the firm was not immediately returned.

The lawsuit alleged that the Freedom Tower was "strikingly similar" to Shine's designs for a Manhattan building for the proposed 2012 Olympic Games in New York.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/09/freedom.tower.ap/index.html

This is the DU member still known as CO Liberal.

[candy]

1. Here we go,lawsuit time.

[tridim]

2. One problem, the designers didn't want the spire

It was added by NYC bureaucracy.