HoustonChronicle.com - Tower design evokes America, Statue of Liberty

"Although the design is not a literal re-creation of the Statue of Liberty, it's impossible to miss the many architectural references to freedom.

The clearest reference is the tower's height of 1,776 feet -- a reference, as Pataki put it, to 'the year that our country was given its independence and became free.'

Its asymmetrical shape was meant to recall the stance of the Statue of Liberty."

Hey Bubba! Where'd that Statue of Liberty come from, anyways? Oh, sorry I asked!