No Architecture Hero at Ground Zero

Don’t miss the pithy, pointed critique of the Ground Zero architectural follies in Looking Around, a Time magazine blog.
Richard Lacayo comments:
Remember five years ago, when everyone agreed that the idea behind the rebuilding of the WTC site was supposed to be renewal? You probably thought that meant renewing life. Turns out it was just about renewing leases.
For Tuesday’s NY Times article on Gov. Eliot Spitzer‘s likely support for the Freedom Tower plans that he formerly criticized, go here.
For the current controversy over preserving the “survivors’ stairway,” go here.
For architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable‘s highly critical take on the Ground Zero plans, go here.
Is there nothing Mayor Bloomberg can do to salvage the rebuilding process that began with such hope and is ending in such cynicism?