Mixed Community Reactions To Freedom Tower's Redesign by Etta Sanders The windmills are gone and it no longer twists towards the sky, but the redesigned Freedom Tower will be iconic, architect David Childs told Community Board 1 last month. And the height of the tips of the rooftop antennae will still be 1776 feet. "What you see is our plan for a building that needs to be appropriately sedate, simple in its character, so any 3rd-grader visiting this city can go back to her town in Ohio and draw it," Childs said. The signature building of the redeveloped World Trade Center site had to be a revamped to upgrade security. It is now set farther back from the surrounding streets and has a fortified base. The increased distance from the streets will create more public open space, Childs said. "This building is a monumentally-scaled building, but there should be lots of places for people." The new design is more vertical, except that the corners of the base's square have been cut away as they rise up the building, creating a rotated square at the top and eight long isosceles triangles, pointing alternately up and down, around the sides. The base will have 30-foot-tall entrances on all four sides. People going to the observation deck or underground transportation will enter on the west side, and those working on the 69 floors of office space will use the north and south entrances. The east entrance will provide access to a new Windows on the World restaurant. Board members had mixed reactions. "Quite frankly I think it's pretty boring," said Marc Donnenfeld. "This looks like a combination of a lot of things we've seen before." Committee member Albert Capsouto disagreed. "Having to deal with the security constraints you had to deal with, at the end of the day we're getting a better building," he said.