Banksy disses 1 WTC as ‘Canadian,’ ‘vanilla’

Enid Alvarez/New York Daily News

One World Trade Center rises majestically above lower Manhattan. No matter what Banksy says.

Banksy is spraying a bunch of bunk.

The secretive graffiti artist is spending his last days in New York slamming the design of 1 World Trade Center, calling the 104-story skyscraper a “disaster” that “looks like something they would build in Canada.”

“It would be easy to view One World Trade Centre as a betrayal of everyone who lost their lives on September 11th, because it so clearly proclaims the terrorists won,” Banksy wrote on his website.

“You currently have under construction a one thousand foot tall sign that reads — New York — we lost our nerve.”

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Family members who lost loved ones on Sept. 11 took it as a slap in the face.

“He’s insulting to everybody in New York, especially people that died that day,” said retired FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches, who lost his firefighter son, Jimmy, on 9/11.

The prolific British aerosol airhead submitted a scathing op-ed to The New York Times, which declined to run it.

“The attacks of September 11th were an attack on all of us and we will live our lives in their shadow,” Banksy wrote on his website Sunday. “But it’s also how we react to adversity that defines us. And the response? 104 floors of compromise?”

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One World Trade, at the northwest corner of the 16-acre site, is topped with a spire that will reach the symbolic height of 1,776 feet upon completion next year.

The nearly $4 billion skyscraper was developed by the Port Authority and the Durst Organization.

“Everyone is entitled to their opinion,” said Durst spokesman Jordan Barowitz.

Banksy called the building “vanilla” and a “shyscraper” that “looks like it never wanted to be built in the first place.”

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Riches doesn’t think much of his critique.

“He’s just a graffiti artist. What does he know? It’s a modern building,” he said.

The original design for the iconic building by Daniel Libeskind was adjusted following financial concerns. Construction began in 2006 and is set to be completed next year.

It’s not the first time Banksy has referenced the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

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Earlier this month, he drew a stenciled outline of the New York skyline with the World Trade Center and an orange silk daisy near where the planes struck on 9/11.

That brought back terrible memories for victims’ family members.

“I thought it was horrific,” said Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son, Christian, is among the 1,100 victims whose remains were never found. “To many of the families, including myself, it looked like an explosion on the buildings.”

And the famous tagger went to town on the side of a Greenpoint, Brooklyn, building on Sunday in response to the New York Times snub.

“This site contains blocked messages,” a white stenciled graffito on a gray brick wall at Noble and West Sts. said.

The elusive wall scrawler has rolled out new pieces throughout the city each day as part of a monthlong residency. His true identity is known only to a few in his inner circle.

rblau@nydailynews.com