A new museum in lower Manhattan that will house the International Freedom Center and the Drawing Center is desitgned by the Norwegian firm Snohetta. The design is “strangely seductive: with some fine-tuning, it could even become a fascinating work. It is already closer to the standard set by Santiago Calatrava’s soaring glass-and-steel transportation hub than that of the site’s troubled Freedom Tower, for example. But ultimately, the museum is more about politics than architecture – a theme-park view of American ideals in an alluring wrapper.”