Thursday, December 19, 2002

New Plans for Ground Zero:

Be sure to check out the interactive special.
Personally, I'm torn between the schemes proposed by United Architects and THINK. I thought those were the most poetic and dynamic plans out of the lot.
Am quite disappointed by the Big Names' proposals - chiefly Norman Foster, SOM and the Richard Meier + Peter Eisenman + Charles Gwathmey + Steven Holl collective. Each group plonked what is essentially their respective signature product onto the site, which seemed to me a little insensitive given the context.

NY Times gave Foster's Towers a harsh, albeit wickedly true review:

"Norman Foster's design is one's favorite new hate. Sometimes it seems that when the British peer over the horizon, all they see is Singapore....Here, the twin towers are reborn as one, a Siamese twin of a skyscraper that would be the world's tallest.....The project has success written all over it. But why does it leave us with the impression that it would be far happier in Hong Kong?"

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